Poor diet
Megan Blake explains how rich countries can have hungry households and introduces a means to climb out of food insecurity Eradicating hunger is one of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development …
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The world is farming more seafood than it catches. Is that a good thing?
A new report from the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, or FAO, has found that more fish were farmed worldwide in 2022 than harvested from the wild, an apparent …
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Tariffs, unions and GM corn: the US, Mexico and Canada try to iron out USMCA trade disputes
Mexico, the United States and Canada are preparing the ground for the first six-year review of their free trade agreement, the USMCA, which was signed in 2018 and went into …
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Major emitters ‘may retain or expand’ fossil fuels despite net-zero plans
Some sectors, such as livestock farming and heavy industry, are viewed as particularly hard to decarbonise. This is due, in part, to a perceived lack of cheap technological solutions. Any “residual …
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Intellectual property: How to stop Western theft
A few years ago, the German professor of intellectual property law Tim Dornis was on sabbatical in California when the General-Secretary of the German Association for Intellectual Property Law (GRUR) …
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Urban Agriculture in the Heart of Caracas: A Conversation with Glenda Vivas
The Bolívar 1 Organoponic Garden is a two-acre plot in the center of Caracas. Wedged between concrete high-rises, this flagship garden produces a variety of food crops using Cuban-inspired methods …
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Cocoa price surge in global market lures Colombian farmers away from coca cultivation
“Coca leaf prices are down and cocoa prices are up.” It’s as simple as that, says cocoa farmer Óscar Gómez, who close to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, an isolated …
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A sting in the tale
Verity discovers that when the wise man points at the moon, the fool looks at the finger. Thomas, my husband of forty years, has a new project. It keeps him …
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EU discord over Ukraine free trade spells trouble for Kyiv’s accession hopes
A squabble among EU countries over whether to grant Ukraine’s vast farming sector another year of emergency, no-strings-attached access to their markets could well be a taste of what’s to …
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Extreme heat drives up food prices. Just how bad will it get?
Sometimes climate change appears where you least expect it — like the grocery store. Food prices have climbed 25 percent over the past four years, and Americans have been shocked by the …
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