Hunger explained?
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Opinion: Why the European Union should include Fair Prices in its policies by Ruud Bronkhorst
The European Commission (EC) is now preparing its Sustainable Corporate Governance proposal. It is foreseen that in this proposal, directives will be included about companies’ purchasing practices. [read]
Opinion: Another False Start in Africa Sold with Green Revolution Myths by Timothy A. Wise and Jomo Kwame Sundaram
AGRA has clearly failed to improve agricultural productivity and farmers’ incomes in Africa. This failure remind us of the high opportunity costs of paths not taken.
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Opinion: Struggle for the Future of Food by Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Producers and consumers seem helpless as food comes under fast growing corporate control. If trends continue, food will be increasingly controlled by ‘hi-tech’, data processing, asset management and agribusiness corporations, at the expense of billions of farmers and consumers. [read]
The COVID-19 pandemic hits harder urban areas and women (New)
Little by little, the magnitude of the impact of the pandemic on poverty and hunger in the world is getting clearer.
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Bill Gates: philanthropy or business as usual?
The dark side of the greatest “philanthropist” in history.
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In France, the debate on the future of food and agriculture just scratches the surface
A faulty law illustrates the blindess of stakeholders, incapable to go beyond the signals of the market and agree on crucial decisions. [read]
Sustainable Food Systems <=> Sustainable Diets (New)
A Special Issue of the International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food explores how social sciences can contribute to the complex endeavour of changing consumption habits as part and parcel of transforming the food system. [read]
Opinion: Personal reflections on food summitry by Andrew MacMillan (New)
The UN Food Systems Summit: a serious attempt to improve global food management or a squabble for power over how we grow food and eat it?
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