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International trade can compensate for regional food shortages and reduce hunger, particularly when protectionist measures and other barriers to trade are eliminated. In a new study, researchers from KU Leuven, the International Institute of...
After steadily declining for over a decade, world hunger is again on the rise. 815 million people were affected in 2016, or 11 per cent of the world’s population, finds a new UN report....
To mark World Food Day 2016, the United Nations has emphasised the connection between climate change and sustainable agriculture, food and nutrition security. On World Food Day 2016, the UN’s message was: “The climate...
World leaders gathered last week to sign the Paris Climate Change Agreement. Oxfam is now calling on governments to confront climate change collectively, to help the most vulnerable deal with climate chaos. More than...
Farmers could produce more food with the same amount of water by optimising rain use and irrigation, according a new study. The findings could substantially reduce hunger in the face of population growth and...
In his encyclical on the environment, Pope Francis calls on the international community to take decisive action. The Earth’s ecosystem is endangered, but there is still time to save it. However, society’s pursuit of...
International researchers commissioned by a Swedish foundation to analyse global risks have come up with a list of 12 doomsday scenarios facing humankind. While climate change tops the list, artificial intelligence is also regarded...
The “Big 10” food and beverage companies emit so much greenhouse gas that, if they were a single country, they would be the 25th most polluting in the world. Kellogg and General Mills are...
UN climate experts who met in Yokohama, Japan last week have released the latest status report on the consequences of climate change. Global warming will affect each and every continent and result in more...
