Behind an airtight door, inside a warehouse 10 minutes walk from Bristol city centre, shelves of vibrant chives sprout enthusiastically towards a sky of multicoloured LEDs. The air they are…
Perhaps the most important of all environmental issues is land use. Every hectare of land we use for extractive industries is a hectare that can’t support wild forests, savannahs, wetlands, natural…
Dubbed "Earth Overshoot Day," Thursday marks a tipping point when people have used up "all that ecosystems can regenerate in one year," according to the Global Footprint Network and WWF.
Mankind…
Blistering heat, stronger storms, droughts, floods and fires are putting food production at risk
Sriracha fans are a passionate bunch. They have been known to get tattoos of the popular hot sauce on…
The COVID pandemic has shown the fragility of our global food supply chains, with many supermarkets and restaurants in almost every country having experienced food shortages. Millions of people in…
Sometime over the last month, you probably threw away a banana. Maybe it got too ripe. Or maybe your child didn’t like the one he was eating with the spotty, brown skin. You probably didn’t think…
With the average UK family throwing out £730 of surplus items a year, eco-conscious consumers have found a hi-tech fix.
There is such a thing as a free lunch, it turns out, as long as you don’t mind…
Wednesday 17 March, ROME - The United Nations and the Government of Italy announced today that the Pre-Summit gathering for the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit will be in Rome, Italy from July 19 to July…
According to a global food waste index released on Thursday, some 931 million tons of food waste were generated across the world in 2019. The report, published by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP…
Food discarded in homes is 74kg per person each year, with problem affecting rich and poor countries.
People waste almost a billion tonnes of food a year, a UN report has revealed. It is the most…
Beyond the questions surrounding the availability, effectiveness and safety of a vaccine, the COVID-19 pandemic has led us to question where our food is coming from and whether we will have enough.
2020 was a year of disruption, awakening, and change, with many things forced onto us that were outside of our control. There was no hiding from the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts, the Black Lives…
Composting is the best way to get rid of your kitchen scraps without sending them to the landfill. And if you’ve been composting for a while, you may have already started experimenting with …
Supermarkets are throwing away the equivalent of 190 million meals a year that could be given to the hungry, The Independent reveals today.
The latest data shows that Britain’s top 10 chains are…
Will climate change seal the end of the Mediterranean diet?
We often read about how climate change will impact the way we live as if it was something yet to come, a threat still far away from us.…
Did you resolve to eat healthier this year but are unsure where to start?
Luckily, U.S. News and World Report assembled a panel of experts to rank 39 common diets and name the best one for 2021. The…
From wildfires in California and locust attacks in Ethiopia to job losses caused by pandemic lockdowns in Italy and Myanmar, climate change and COVID-19 disrupted food production and tipped millions…