Not broken, just wrong
Nutrition expert, Stuart Gillespie, tells The Mint the food system is killing more people than hunger ever did and radical change is needed to end the carnage. In his book, …
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Somalia’s devastating floods have now caused food prices to rocket – leaving countless people in peril
Somalia has recently seen the worst flooding it’s had in a century. Dozens of people have been killed, and 1.6 million people have been affected. Moreover, the flooding has cut off communities …
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India’s wild price swings for tomatoes make and lose fortunes
“Tomato King” Ramesh Pangal, a farmer in the north Indian state of Haryana, had a good yield despite a heatwave that began earlier than usual this summer. By May, the …
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How Nigerians are using WhatsApp groups to fight food inflation
As inflation rises above 20%, middle-class Nigerians are forming WhatsApp groups to buy food items in bulk directly from producers and share among themselves. For Cecelia Anahobi, a single mother …
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An Alternative Economy of Care in Portland
Gabriel Baron first heard about Crisis Kitchen through a call for support he saw on Facebook. The mutual aid group was providing free meals around Portland, Oregon, to combat food …
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UK: Food banks outnumber McDonald’s restaurants
More people than ever in the United Kingdom are suffering from food poverty, with even working families turning to charities for help, aid agencies say. In a damning statistic issued …
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How the Lebanese Diaspora Is Mobilizing Against Food Insecurity at Home
Lebanon is facing a major food crisis. Struck by an unprecedented economic meltdown, nationwide protests, and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, more than 3.7 million people in the small Middle Eastern nation, which …
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In post-blast Lebanon, farmers struggle as food shortages feared
Without money to plant, Lebanon’s farmers were already in deep trouble before last week’s explosion. Far from being the solution to the country’s food shortages, the agricultural sector that is …
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Burning at the steak
Meat and dairy farming giants continue to feed the climate-changing emissions that threaten life on Earth. Carina Millstone says they could be off the menu tomorrow Countless reports tell us …
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Cereal Offenders
As investors have found rich pickings in the food sector as it caught the wave of commodity market deregulation, people have starved. Sophie van Huellen looks at the ingredients of …
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