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May 05, 2022
Food
Putin’s War reveals fragile food supply chain
WARSAW: An international donor conference has raised US$6.5 billion for humanitarian aid to 7.7 million Ukrainian citizens internally displaced and a further 5.5 million now refugees in other countries. After 10 weeks of Russia’s invasion, a new report from…
February 17, 2022
Food
Self-destruction costs US$1.8 trillion a year
LONDON: Governments are subsidising the destruction of the earth’s ecosystems by companies to the tune of US$1.8 trillion annually, according to research commissioned by The B Team and Business for Nature. The first study in over a decade to put a value on…
February 11, 2022
Food
Louis Dreyfus makes ethical supply chain move
ROTTERDAM: Food commodity trader Louis Dreyfus (LDC) has committed to eliminate deforestation and the conversion of conservation value vegetation for agriculture from all its supply chains by the end of 2025. Founded in 1851 the French company sources,…
January 14, 2022
Food
Unilever to determine we are what we eat
NATICK, MA/LONDON, UK: Unilever has partnered with gut researchers Holobiome to identify food and drink ingredients that could have a positive impact on mental wellbeing. According to Unilever many scientists consider the human gut microbiome, where trillions…
October 06, 2021
Food
Mars links executive compensation to climate action
MCLEAN, VA: Food manufacturer Mars has set a science-based climate target to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050 while challenging its 20,000 suppliers to drive change across its full value chain, including Scope 3 emissions. The company…
September 15, 2021
Food
Too Good to Go takes off with SWISS
GENEVA: SWISS is collaborating with Too Good To Go, the food app that connects consumers with food that would otherwise be thrown away. Founded in Copenhagen in 2015, the Certified B Corp says it has since saved 348 million pounds of food, the equivalent of…
August 03, 2021
Food
Time to reduce the US$20 trillion hidden cost of food
ROME: Former head of TNT, now owned by FedEx, Peter Bakker has been president and CEO of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) since 2012. Speaking in advance of the UN Food System Summit in September, he says there is an urgent need…
July 30, 2021
Food
A billion tons of food wasted as another 100 million people go hungry
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar: The World Food Programme (WFP) says over 500,000 children are facing irreversible damage to their growth after four years of drought in southern Madagascar caused by human-induced climate change. “While we are rushing to space, 41…
July 22, 2021
Food
Driven to waste - the global impact of food loss
NAIROBI/LONDON: A report by WWF and the UK supermarket chain Tesco says 40 percent of all food is wasted while emitting 10 percent of global greenhouse gases (GHG). WWF Media officer Lilian Gikandi says there’s a better solution to wasting 2.5 billion tonnes…
June 22, 2021
Food
OECD says food subsidies don't help and cost US$720 billion a year
PARIS: The OECD says governments provided an average US$720 billion in annual agriculture subsidies between 2018-20, including US$338 billion that was market distorting, inequitable and harmful to both the environment and global food security. Of 54 countries…
May 06, 2021
Food
Last year was even worse for those at the bottom of the food chain
ROME: The World Food Programme says 155 million people across 55 countries face acute food insecurity caused by conflict, extreme weather and economic shocks from COVID-19. The number hit a five-year high in 2020 according to the latest annual report by the…
April 05, 2021
Food
Food supply chains responsible for 29 percent of man-made GHG emissions
ISPRA/ROME, Italy: A paper published in Nature Food this month says supply chains are responsible for 29 percent of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the global food sector. In 2015 food systems produced 18 Gigatonnes of GHG emissions, some 34 percent of the…