Upcycled food is now an officially defined term, which advocates say will encourage broader consumer and industry support for products that help reduce food waste. Upcycling—transforming ingredients…
New strategy to protect nature includes far-reaching habitat protections, and restrictions on pesticide use – but campaigners warn enforcement is key.
The European Commission has committed to…
Exclusive: only one species is responsible for coronavirus – humans – say world’s leading wildlife experts
The coronavirus pandemic is likely to be followed by even more deadly and destructive…
Survey shows food waste generated has risen from £111 to £148 per restaurant per week.
Food waste generated by UK restaurants dishing up takeaways during the lockdown has risen as a result of…
'Coronavirus could kill, but hunger kills many more people'
COVID-19, desert locusts or torrential rains and floods — where should East Africa focus its attention among this “triple threat”?
As the…
Countries must join forces to avert a global food crisis from COVID-19.
The coronavirus pandemic has laid many things bare, none more so than how interconnected our world is. The impact of…
Governments must act now to stop 265 million starving, warns World Food Programme boss
The world is facing widespread famine “of biblical proportions” because of the coronavirus pandemic, the chief…
Report from UN World Food Programme and others warns 265m people are facing acute risk.
The coronavirus crisis will push more than a quarter of a billion people to the brink of starvation unless…
UN warns of ‘alarming and unprecedented threat’ to food security and livelihoods in the region.
A second wave of desert locusts is threatening east Africa with estimates that it will be 20 times…
The UN says locusts in Ethiopia have damaged 200,000 hectares of cropland, as region braces for new swarms.
Some one million people in Ethiopia require emergency food aid after swarms of desert…
Sub-Saharan Africa will this year suffer its first recession for 25 years as a consequence of the coronavirus outbreak, a World Bank report predicts.
In a grim assessment, the bank says that the…
Unheeded lessons from simulations of health and other disasters could still assist recovery.
Planners have known that something like COVID-19 would come, even if they could never be sure when or…
Food reserves in Nyandarua County are running low following the locust invasion that hit the agriculture-rich region, with some sectors recording a yield drop of up to 75 percent.
By March 20, the…
There's growing alarm in East Africa about huge swarms of desert locusts which are spreading across the region.
The swarms have been destroying vegetation, forcing farmers into desperate measures.…
NAIROBI - Kenya said on Saturday it had started aerial spraying in three counties in the country’s north to try to head off a locust invasion which has already caused extensive damage to farmland in…
Tens of thousands of hectares of farmland is being destroyed as desert locusts swarm over Somalia, in the worst invasion in 25 years.
The locusts have damaged about 70,000 hectares of farmland in…
Every year, the company Ingredion buys millions of tons of corn and cassava from farmers and turns them into starches and sugars that go into foods such as soft drinks, yogurt and frozen meals.
Lots…
The new model "provides an extremely important tool to inform policy decisions and shape responses"
As many as five billion people will face hunger and a lack of clean water by 2050 as the warming…
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