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 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 …
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 …
It’s last orders at the bar in a certain vegan pub in a certain British city, and my friend Daisy checks casually, ‘Do you need to get any food in? We could do with a bit of veg…’
… Ethical Living Bins Freeganism Supermarkets Food Waste Supermarkets Vegetarianism And Veganism Food And Farming Politics And Economics Green … checks casually, ‘Do you need to get any food in? We could do with a bit of veg…’ This …
UK and other member states expected to fight proposals to bring in compulsory labelling for consumers on novel foods
… EU votes for labels on nano, cloned and GM food The Ecologist | 5th May 2010 News Food And Farming Gm Nano Cloning Politics And Economics gmfood.jpg EU MPs have voted strongly in favour …
New Labour’s close ties to the fast-food industry are working against the interests of public health
… Advertising McD UK Packaging Processed Foods Food And Farming Health Politics And Economics … New Labour’s close ties to the fast-food industry are working against the …
The millions of people in Niger who died during the recent famines, did so because the IMF pressured its government to tax food and the poor simply couldn't afford to save themselves
… 13th February 2009 Comment Famine Starvation Food Taxes Ethiopia Niger Famine Free Trade Food And Farming Politics And Economics … the IMF pressured its government to tax food and the poor simply couldn't afford to …
MP's report leaves environmentalists facing a dilemma, should they allow GM crop trials or not?
… protests The Ecologist | 22nd July 2009 News Food And Farming Science And Technology Gm Brazil Food Politics And Economics soil.jpg MPs have … sand? In a wide-ranging report, ' Securing food supplies up to 2050: the challenges for …
Influx of high-fat and high-sugar foods into Central America has increased obesity levels
… American junk food imports hit poor The Ecologist | 12th August 2009 News Food And Farming Green Living Society Obesity Junk Food Politics And Economics burgers.jpg Influx …
In the midst of the US domestic energy boom, livestock on farms near oil-and-gas drilling operations nationwide have been quietly falling sick and dying. Elizabeth Royte reports
… in fracking regions, raising concerns about food Elizabeth Royte | 28th January 2013 News Fracking Food And Farming Politics And Economics Energy … a link between fracking and illness in food animals. The authors compiled 24 case …
Over 1,000 juvenile delinquents showed a 44 per cent drop in antisocial behaviour when put on a low sugar diet. So why is the government completely ignoring what we are feeding our children, and yet is happy to spend £2,500 on administering each ASBO?
… Behaviour Orders Nutrition Diet Sugar Junk FoodFood And Health Mental Health Pharmaceuticals Risk Drugs Food And Farming Health Politics And Economics …
The Ecologist goes inside the workings of Smithfield to reveal the true horrors of its pig production business
… Smithfield Foods: the truth behind its pigs and factories … Jr | 1st December 2003 News Smithfield Foods Farming Pig Farming Factory Farming … Farming Additives Agribusiness Companies Food And Health UK US Supply Chain Food And …