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Vilsack: we must redress systematic racism against black farmers
The US House Agriculture Committee has heard discrimination in federal farm loan programmes...
Women’s Day mini-brief: it’s still a long way to the top
While the economic impact of Covid has hit women hardest, there’s a possibility...
Intensive farming and climate change are reducing food security
The 2020 Global Food Security Index, compiled by The Economist, finds global food security...
Now is the time to invest in AgriFoodTech: report
A new report by venture capital firm AgFunder says agrifoodtech startups raised US$26.1...
DUP’s shifting stance on EU trade alignment
The Financial Times reports that the Democratic Unionist party privately lobbied the British...
Seven commodities cause more than half of agribusiness deforestation
The World Resources Institute says cattle, oil palm, soy, cocoa, rubber, coffee and...
For Valentine’s Day, the chocolate that’s loving up the planet
At US$250 a bar – and that’s a small bar of 50 grams...
Delhi police sedition action against Greta Thunberg is chilling, say activists
Pop star Rhianna and climate activist Greta Thunberg have waded into a months-long...
Sub-Saharan small holders to sell captured carbon
Rabobank aims to sign 15 million farmers up to a carbon capture platform...
OECD: urgent policy reform needed in food systems
An OECD report launched this week says agricultural policies must be urgently reformed...
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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