Food aid charities argue supermarket food waste could help prevent hunger in vulnerable people. Yet supermarkets' anaerobic digestion plans may eclipse food redistribution says Matilda Lee
… Supermarket food waste to power renewable energy instead of tackling food poverty Matilda Lee | 23rd December 2011 News Food And Farming Politics And Economics Health …
Financial speculation in key commodities, like wheat and maize, is being linked to recent volatile food prices but attempts to regulate are being delayed by lobbying from the banking sector. Tom Levitt reports
… Banks should end 'secretive' trade in food commodities Tom Levitt | 13th September 2011 News Food Speculation Food And Farming Banking Politics And …
A surge in financial speculation on maize is causing vastly inflated prices for corn tortillas - a sacred staple in Mexico - and threatening the health and livelihoods of the country's poor. Tom Levitt investigates
… Mexico's poor suffer as food speculation fuels tortilla crisis Tom Levitt | 13th September 2011 News Food Speculation Food And Farming Banks Trading Politics And …
A surge in financial speculation on maize is causing vastly inflated prices for corn tortillas - a sacred staple in Mexico - and threatening the health and livelihoods of the country's poor. Tom Levitt investigates
… Mexico's poor suffer as food speculation fuels tortilla crisis Tom Levitt | 13th September 2011 News Food Speculation Food And Farming Banks Trading Politics And …
The Covid-19 pandemic reminded us of the role food plays in our daily lives.
… Good food must be a right for everyone Tom Andrews … | 3rd December 2020 | Comment Sustainable Food Soil Association Editor’s Picks … The Covid-19 pandemic reminded us of the role food plays in our daily lives. The empty …
The financial industry has been quick to dismiss its role in pushing up food prices but with the evidence growing daily the Ecologist cuts through the jargon to explain the reality of food speculation
… A guide to food speculation: how to argue with a banker … The Ecologist | 9th June 2011 News Banking Food And Farming Speculation Finance Politics And Economics Banks foodspec.jpg Recent food price volatility has …
In February a report by George W Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) suggested that fast food workers might in the future be classified as manufacturing workers. A CEA report asked: ‘When a fast-food restaurant sells a hamburger, for example, is it providing a “service”, or is it combining inputs to “manufacture’ a product?’
… Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser | 1st April 2004 News Fast Food McDonalds Advertisements Pollution McDonalds Wages Skilled Labour Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser Fast FoodFood And …
In a major investigation and film, the Ecologist takes a look at how volatile financial speculation on food commodities is causing hunger and poverty in Mexico - and around the world
… Food speculation 'boom' linked to volatile food prices The Ecologist | 13th September 2011 Comment Food Speculation Banking Finance Politics And …
What started out as a conventional UN bureaucracy has become the subject of wild speculation and fear - just what is the UN's Codex Alimentarius, and what does it mean for our food and health?
… Will the UN's Codex Alimentarius make our food less nutritious? Chris Milton | 10th August 2010 News Food And Farming Health Codex Alimentarius Food Rules Un Politics And Economics …
It was a bad year for the biotech barons. At a conference in January 1999, the consulting firm Arthur Andersen revealed Monsanto executives’ vision of an ideal future – a world in which natural seeds were virtually all extinct and where commercial seeds were genetically modified (GM) and patented.
… The battle to keep GM food off your plate Jeffrey Smith | 1st … Gm Products Campaigns Gm Products UK US Food And Farming Politics And Economics … safety assessment protocol for testing GM foods. In the course of his studies under the …
High-street customers could be subsidising the role of Barclays Capital in driving up global food prices and leaving millions facing hunger and malnutrition, says campaign group. Tom Levitt reports
… Barclays 'making up to £340 million' on food price speculation Tom Levitt | 31st March 2011 News Food And Farming Barclays Food Speculation Politics And Economics …
It's time we stopped listening to the banking sector and started pressuring MPs and MEPs to regulate food speculation, argues Deborah Doane
… Deborah Doane | 13th September 2011 Comment Food Speculation Politics And Economics Banking Food And Farming wdmdeborah.jpg Deborah Doane … started pressuring MPs and MEPs to regulate food speculation, argues Deborah Doane If a …
In the run up to the British general election, Pat Thomas says the various party manifestos are starved of sound policies on food security and sustainability
… of the main parties seem to have a clue about food Pat Thomas | 21st April 2010 Comment Food And Farming Election 2010 Politics And … manifestos are starved of sound policies on food security and sustainability Food is a …
We need a radical food system transformation to drastically steer us away from climate breakdown.
… Radical change in food systems needed Louisianna Waring | 17th October 2022 | News FSA Food Standards Agency Food And Farming FoodFood And Health Food …
The National Food Strategy is a huge opportunity to transform England's food system.
… Thorpe | 20th August 2021 | Comment National Food Strategy Food And Farming Climate Change Veganism … The National Food Strategy is a huge opportunity to …
What role should the EU take in reforming our broken food system?
… 'We can democratise our food systems' Anja Hazekamp | 29th September 2021 | News Food And Farming European Union EU-Mercosur … should the EU take in reforming our broken food system? Our food system is broken. The …
How to buy high protein vegan foods at the supermarket on a tight budget.
… September 2022 | News Vegan Protein Health Food And Farming Editor’s Picks … How to buy high protein vegan foods at the supermarket on a tight budget. … of families who are already there. Vegan food often costs more than food based on …
'The success of Vegans Support the Farmers shows both vegans and farmers have a hunger for real solutions and a better future for us and our families.'
… Meet the next generation of food campaigners Jan Goodey | 30th April 2024 | Comment Food And Farming Local Farmers Veganism … campaigns is shedding light on the skewed UK food system in a bid to make it fairer for …
Resurgence & Ecologist magazine spoke to Dee Woods about what resilience means to her and the Granville Community Kitchen.
… Kitchen is a community hub that organises food-centred activities for residents in South … people in the community who couldn’t access food. At the same time I was affected by a … to live on. I thought: I’m not going to a food bank. We have so many skills, so much …
The combined impacts of climate and oil and gas prices have driven up average UK household food bills by a total of £11.4 billion.
… prices have driven up average UK household food bills by a total of £11.4 billion. … prices have pushed up the average household food bill by more than £400 this year, a … comes after the latest figures showed annual food inflation had risen to almost 15%, which …
In the penultimate extract from Fatal Harvest’s demolition of agribusiness disinformation, The Ecologist assesses the claim that biotechnology will solve industrial agriculture’s ills.
… Kimbrell | 1st May 2003 News Agriculture Food Shortage Biotechnology Food Security Biotechnology Food And Farming Politics And Economics …