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The EAT–Lancet Commission on Healthy, Sustainable, and Just Food Systems, a key international authority, published its latest report in October 2025. Its conclusions were damning: “More than half of the world’s …
Neither credible nor edible Read More
Henry Leveson-Gower and Dil Green map potential paths to escape the tyranny of Big Food. The modern food system delivers cheap calories at scale, but at the cost of health, …
Taking the die out of diet Read More
When home-cooked turkey roasted Reformed chicken. I’ve developed a whole new respect for the WI. I’ll never unsee its indestructible president, Virginia Austen, using her WI pinny like a matador’s …
WI Oh WI Read More
What happens when the same people who once marched in protest suddenly find themselves inside Town Hall? Tanya Zerbian, Soledad Cuevas, Ana Moragues-Faus and Daniel López-García tell the tale of …
Give and take Read More
Julien Étienne tells the story of the Fens—an engineered landscape that feeds the UK, and whose people are facing critical threats from climate change. The threat of climate change to …
The Breadbasket on Borrowed Time Read More
In a year when billionaires added trillions to their fortunes, governments slashed health and education budgets to pay creditors, just as climate-fuelled disasters drove hunger and displacement to new highs. …
When finance eats the world Read More
Stephanie Walton herds the arguments around how stranded assets might be handled were the world to rein in its rampant carnivorousness to the point where the planet isn’t slaughtered. Over …
Meat: what’s the beef and who pays? Read More
Ethiopian activist, Million Belay, talks to The Mint about the fight to take back control of Africa’s food. In a world where food is increasingly treated like a financial product—priced, …
An innovative way to innovate Read More
Donatella Gasparro suggests the real culprit is capitalism, and we need a post-growth alternative. After more than ten years of involvement in agri-food matters from a bizarrely wide variety of …
Stop blaming the “food system” Read More
Cory Doctorow’s book dumps on the digital economy for its descent into the sewer, driven by exploitative practices toward its customers. Doctorow provides a case for why it need not …
Expletive delighted Read More