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How Can Consumers Eat Well Without Wrecking the Planet?
Can fixing dinner fix the planet?This is the question posed by Jessica Fanzo, the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Global Food Policy and Ethics at...
Palm Oil Is in Almost Everything We Eat, and It’s Fueling...
In her new book, ‘Planet Palm,’ journalist Jocelyn Zuckerman investigates the devastating environmental, health, and human costs of the global palm oil industry.ven’t encountered...
Eat this to save the world! The most sustainable foods –...
What should we be scoffing if we want to help fight the climate crisis from our kitchens? The question has never been more important...
Oatly’s IPO Is Bringing More Investment to Vegan, Planet-Friendly ESG Stock
After much speculation, Swedish oat drink company, Oatly, is set to launch its IPO this week on the NASDAQ according to papers filed with the SEC....
Seaspiracy explored: Why are bottom trawling and bycatch such bad news?
Data from environmental group Oceana showed there had been an increase in trawling in MPAs in 2020‘Seaspiracy’, the popular Netflix documentary released earlier this year, has...
World’s soils ‘under great pressure’, says UN pollution report
Soils provide 95% of all food but are damaged by industrial, farming, mining and urban pollutionThe world’s soils, which provide 95% of humanity’s food,...
Biodiversity means health, ours and that of the planet
“We should celebrate biodiversity every day, not just on May 22nd”comments Edie Mukiibi, Vice- President of Slow Food. “Why? Because biodiversity is what enables agricultural...
Third of global food production at risk from climate crisis
Food-growing areas will see drastic changes to rainfall and temperatures if global heating continues at current rateA third of global food production will be...
Linux Foundation launches open source agriculture infrastructure project
The Linux Foundation has lifted the lid on a new open source digital infrastructure project aimed at the agriculture industry. The AgStack Foundation, as the new project...
How saving seeds can preserve the food of the future —...
Rowen White of Sierra Seeds on how an ancient practice can breed more resilient crops and reconnect us all to our cultural roots.Rowen White has...
Green is the new orange: Why carrot leaves shouldn’t be thrown...
The call to reduce food waste has grown louder in the time of climate change. One of the obvious yet overlooked examples of wasted...
Vital soil organisms being harmed by pesticides, study shows
The tiny creatures are the ‘unsung heroes’ that keep soils healthy and underpin all life on land.Pesticides are causing widespread damage to the tiny...