World leaders must make massive investments in agriculture to avert an imminent food catastrophe by 2050. This is the urgent message of an unprecedented open letter* published on January 14
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EU climate scientists recently published a damning annual assessment of Europe’s meteorological predicament, concluding that 2022 was the continent’s second-hottest year on record. Globally, the report further establishes that the
After a year dominated by the war in Ukraine and backsliding on green commitments, the Egypt-hosted COP27 summit is the year’s last chance to bring climate change back to the
The links between global food systems, food security and climate change have never been more obvious. The worst-case consequences of rising temperatures and drought played out this year in Madagascar
Amidst heated debate over nutritional and origin labelling for food products in Europe, the European Commission is now undertaking a public consultation on food labels – covering nutrition and origin,
Around two-fifths of the world’s flora and fauna are at risk of extinction, according to a new report released by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew on 30 September, putting the
The world is on the brink of a global food emergency on a scale unseen for more than half a century as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to
The groundbreaking documentary Food Evolution offered the general public a science-based introduction to crop biotechnology, revealing how activists attack it and debunking some of the more pernicious myths about GMOs
While Europeans were indulging in New Year celebrations, debate was growing within the new European Commission. France is once again seeking to impose its Nutri-Score system on other member states.
Scientists have created the first ‘rigorous’ map of the sustainability of global food systems that moves beyond focusing solely on the agriculture-nutrition connection and introduces all the different elements of