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Satellites are helping to track food supplies in coronavirus era
As the coronavirus pandemic leads to anxiety over the strength of the world’s...
UK hunger crisis: 1.5m people go whole day without food
A hunger crisis is rapidly developing among British people in lockdown, as millions...
Dumped milk, smashed eggs: pandemic food waste
In Wisconsin and Ohio, farmers are dumping thousands of gallons of fresh milk...
California farmers are forced to let crops rot
For many farmers, it’s more cost-effective to let crops rot in the fields....
FareShare says surplus food donations have more than doubled in lockdown
The volume of food that would otherwise be wasted has more than doubled...
To fight Covid-19, central banks must break taboos
To combat Covid-19, central banks, including the ECB, must cross the Rubicon of...
Insect protein for animal feed could ease environmental strain
Ÿnsect supplies protein produced from insects bred in a vertical farm in Dole,...
Food crisis looms as farmers forced to stay idle
Coronavirus is threatening food security as the global pandemic disrupts labour availability and...
China’s secretive wildlife farm industry and Covid-19
Until a few weeks ago wildlife farming was still being promoted by government...
UK farmers to be rewarded for “public goods”
The UK Government revealed a new version of their post-Brexit agriculture legislation Thursday,...
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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