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The UN just declared a universal human right to a healthy, sustainable environment
Climate change is already affecting much of the world’s population, with startlingly high...
Re-direct farm subsidies to help consumers buy healthy food: UN
The world’s US$630 billion a year in food and agriculture subsidies should to...
Super bug that arose in pigs can jump to humans
Cambridge University reports that a highly antibiotic-resistant strain of the superbug MRSA –...
Millions of world’s poorest missing out on social security help – UN
According to the Evening Standard, a UN report warns how millions of the...
Scottish food bill: a dram to celebrate the end of the beginning
Last week saw a tale of two food policies, with widespread disappointment at...
England’s strategy fails to address food poverty
Professor Tim Lang writes in the New Statesman that today’s white paper confirms...
Suppliers into the EU will shoulder burden of proof re: seized slave-made products
The European Parliament in Strasbourg has voted to strengthen laws banning products made...
The shame of hunger “has been weaponised” to silence the poor in America
US food policy making is like Donald Trump’s all-male panel on women’s reproductive...
IMF, World Bank, WFP and WTO urge coordinated action on food security
The World Bank, International Monetary Fund, UN World Food Programme and World Trade...
Californian court denies Nestlé motion to dismiss Cocoa Plan child labour lawsuit
Confectionary News reports that Nestlé USA has been refused a motion for dismissal...
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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