World faces huge wildlife losses by 2050 unless what and how food is produced changes.
The global food system is on course to drive rapid and widespread ecological damage with almost 90% of land…
“Clean”, “cultured”, “no-kill” – these are just a few of the monikers that have been applied to San Francisco-based food start up Just Inc’s lab-grown chicken nuggets.
The product has just been…
Crucial fish stocks could disappear within five years without urgent action, so desperate fishers are using a new smartphone app to log alleged crimes.
Illegal and destructive practices by…
We are facing a global fight to address one of the biggest challenges of our time. Five years after committing to eradicate hunger we are not on track to reach our goals by 2030.
Chronic hunger is…
Study calls for more focus on farming and food waste, behind a third of greenhouse gas production.
Our diets and agricultural production around the world are so carbon-intensive that emissions from…
Food with heavy environmental impact should be taxed by 2025 unless food industry acts voluntarily, says alliance.
A powerful coalition of the UK’s health professions has called for a climate tax to…
Western Nepal has suffered a long dry spell, harming rice harvests and pushing farmers across the border to seek work even amid the pandemic
NARAINAPUR, Nepal - As an exceptionally wet monsoon…
The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the United Nations World Food Program for its efforts to combat hunger, foster conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and prevent the use of…
Tesco is working with the WWF to halve the environmental impact of its food production.
Earlier this week, the retailer announced that it will become the first in the UK to set a sales target for…
A grim new assessment of the world's flora and fungi has found that two-fifths of its species are at risk of extinction as humans encroach on the natural world, as The Guardian reported. That puts…
As the coronavirus pandemic disrupts supply chains around the world, it is likely that more food is being wasted than ever before at a time when more people are also going hungry.
Belgium's Norther to host EU-backed project for large-scale production of versatile crop.
A world-first effort to grow seaweed at an offshore wind farm will launch off Belgium this year.
The…
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and Climate Action are hosting a three-part digital event series addressing global food, agriculture, and land use challenges in the…
Democrats in the House and Senate on Tuesday introduced sweeping legislation that would ban some of the most toxic pesticides currently in use in the U.S.
A new tool called The Food Systems Dashboard aims to save decision makers time and energy by painting a complete picture of a country's food system. Created by the Johns Hopkins' Alliance for a…
Oxfam International warned Thursday that up to 12,000 people could die each day by the end of the year as a result of hunger linked to the coronavirus pandemic—a daily death toll surpassing the daily…
Robin Hood-style shoplifting session at London supermarket ‘because poverty sucks’
A new political party was launched in London on Thursday by a group of activists from Extinction Rebellion, who…
The United Nations issued a dire warning on Tuesday that the world stands on the brink of the worst food crisis in the last 50 years, according to The Guardian.