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Businesses seek UN treaty harmonising plastic regulations
Unilever CEO Alan Jope has added his voice to business calls for a...
Experts: Mandatory labelling can drive sustainability
Mandatory egg labelling is a good example of creating “clear, consistent demand” –...
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...
The last 20 years changed what Americans eat
Kemi Ingram writes in The Week that the market for healthy and sustainable...
Calls for more pressure on meatpackers
Meatpackers face insufficient market pressure to invest in better traceability or sustainability, according...
Close to half the calories produced in America go uneaten
Americans are wasting enough food for 150 million people a year – more...
Inside food’s new Silicon Valley
That Financial Times reports that Copenhagen is now considered the epicentre of food....
How the food sector protected its own interests at COP26
With the Food Research Collaboration, I studied the United Nations’ official list of...
UN: Agrifood pollution is up by 17 per cent
Agrifood emits 31 per cent of the world’s greenhouse gases, 16.5 billion tonnes,...
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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