Caryn Hartglass, Truth and Food In this show, Caryn talks about truth, what it means, specifically when it comes to the truth about food. She also…
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This result has been the creation of food surplus and food deficit areas, of which the latter have become dependent on agricultural imports and strings-attached…
ROME, Oct 10 2016 (IPS) - What would be your reaction if you were told that food prices are steadily declining worldwide? Good, very good…
The United Nations has forecast that world food production must double to feed 9 billion people by 2050. That assertion has become a relentless talking…
We read it in the news every day. From climate change to overfishing to deforestation, it seems that we are on the brink of a…
As many as 576,000 Iraqi children may have died since the end of the Persian Gulf war because of economic sanctions imposed by the Security…
You cannot rely on food producers to put food labels on products in a sufficient enough manner to describe what you’re actually buying, and — in…
Glyphosate, labeled a “probable human carcinogen” by the World Health Organization’s cancer agency IARC in 2015, has now been revealed to be ubiquitous in the first…
Calculating farming’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions is difficult, but experts agree that feeding the world’s people has tremendous climate and environmental impacts. Estimates of…
The amount of meat humans eat is immense. In 1965, 10 billion livestock animals were slaughtered each year. That number is now over 55 billion.…
Move over, quinoa, kale, and açaí– 2016’s newest superfood might come in a familiar package (or can). Pulses — the dried edible seeds of legume…
The yields of many important crops in Europe have been stagnating since the 1990s. As a result, the input of organic matter into the soil…