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KFC in Kenya got fried over chip shortage
International supply chains became the hot topic in Kenya when KFC said it...
Extreme weather: food prices stay high into 2022
The Financial Times reports that extreme weather events in 2021 triggered spikes in...
Soil degradation costs the UK £1.2 billion each year
The biggest medium to long term risk to local food production is from...
US overpaid corn farmers $3 billion in Trump trade aid
The Department of Agriculture overpaid US corn farmers in 2019 by around US$3...
Chickpeas may get a high-tech makeover
The humble chickpea could join the big boys like rice and soyabeans, as...
Big Data – caution not luddism
Farming is always being urged to modernise. Newer, bigger, faster tractors. Combines that...
Close to half the calories produced in America go uneaten
Americans are wasting enough food for 150 million people a year – more...
Maine’s new right to food’s legal challenges
The Economist reports that earlier this month 61 per cent of voters opted...
UN expert seeks accountability over 600 dead Indian protestors
A UN special rapporteur has called for accountability in the heavy-handed response to...
Indigenous tribes preserve food culture
An NPR audio piece says the origin story of America's Thanksgiving holiday imagines...
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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