Beekeeping is going corporate
According to Bloomberg, honeybees, under threat in rural and agricultural areas, are finding an unlikely refuge: the big city. For ...
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New bioengineered, GMO labels will confuse US consumers
New GMO labels, which came into effect this month in America, will only further confuse consumers, according to campaigners. The ...
Biden supports $1 billion for independent meat processing
The White House will make funds available to support a total of US$1 billion in guaranteed loans for private investors ...
US overpaid corn farmers $3 billion in Trump trade aid
The Department of Agriculture overpaid US corn farmers in 2019 by around US$3 billion for impacts from former President Trump’s ...
Close to half the calories produced in America go uneaten
Americans are wasting enough food for 150 million people a year – more than four times the country's need, as ...
Anti-trust laws to be directed at US meat packing big-four
US President Joe Biden will tackle consolidation in meat packing to reduce retail prices – a move condemned by some ...
US food assistance will increase to support nutrition
Food assistance in the US will increase following estimates that a healthy diet costs 21 per cent more than previously ...
Cyberattack on food supply followed years of warnings
Politico says security analysts from the University of Minnesota warned the US Agriculture Department in late May about a cyber ...
Meet the food workers who can’t afford groceries
The Guardian reports that about half of the 2.5 million farm hands in the US are undocumented immigrants, according to ...
US agriculture techniques to support climate action
A global collaboration to improve food systems through agriculture research was announced at President Biden’s Leaders Summit on Climate. Called ...
Free, prior and informed consent required as clean energy threatens Indigenous Peoples
A new coalition of Indigenous Peoples is calling for free, prior and informed consent to be negotiated without exception as...
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