Friday, 29 March , 2024

Food

Humanity will not be saved by vaccines

By Stelios Elliniadis “Hunger is caused by poverty and inequality, not scarcity. Over the past two decades, the rate of global food production has increased...

‘2021 going to be catastrophic,’ UN warned it faces worst crises...

5 Dec, 2020 The head of the World Food Programme has made a dire forecast about the months to come, slating “catastrophic” humanitarian crises for...

2021 is Going to Be Even Worse Than 2020 as UN...

by Oleg Burunov Nov. 16, 2020 In October, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize had been awarded to the World Food...

Food and Farming Film Festival starting today

The Programme on Cultures of Sustainability, Centre for Cultural Research and Development, Lingnan University is hosting a series of 4 film shows on food...

From fields to supermarkets, solidarity with laborers on strike

On May 21, migrant agricultural workers across Italy are set to strike in protest over the new immigration rules announced by the government. These...

Coronavirus will increase number in EU at risk of going hungry,...

Countries scramble to fill the plates of the most vulnerable. By Zosia Wanat 5/4/20 The coronavirus pandemic will increase the number of Europeans who are at...

«Le choc de cette crise va provoquer la révolution»: Entretien avec...

Par Charlotte Vautier 07 mai 2020 En 1964, Che Guevara lui a demandé de « lutter contre les travers du capitalisme ». C’est ce que le...

Planetary boundaries

Planetary boundaries is a concept involving Earth system processes which contain environmental boundaries, proposed in 2009 by a group of Earth system and environmental...

‘Instead of Coronavirus, the Hunger Will Kill Us.’ A Global Food...

By Abdi Latif Dahir April 23, 2020 Editor's Note: The world is reeling from the COVID-19 crisis and the vulnerable segments of our society are the...

World Food Programme warns: COVID-19 pandemic will cause “famines of biblical...

By Jean Shaoul 23 April 2020 The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) warned Tuesday that without urgent action and funding, hundreds of millions of...