Food parcel handouts have topped 1m in the UK.
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Food banks feed more than just society’s vulnerable members.
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How microbes are the key ingredients when it comes to concocting a gourmet menu.
Farming land in New South Wales.
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Growing population, growing demand for food, climate change: Australia’s rural lands are facing a number of pressures. So how can we sustainably use them in the future?
A diet like this isn’t particularly good for your waistline – or the planet.
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Climate change will make it harder to eat healthily.
Dogs rescued from an Asian farm.
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Eating cats and dogs which have been violently dispatched remains a key element of South Korean cuisine.
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Eating more frozen food could help us reduce waste, beat the obesity epidemic and have more money in our pockets – what’s not to like.
Rice cultivation is one of the ways food production pumps methane into the atmosphere.
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Fossil fuel emissions are slowing, but another major climate problem is becoming clear: food production.
Can we learn to feed the multitudes?
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About one in seven Americans report going hungry at some point during the year, a fact apparently far from the minds of the presidential candidates.
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Scientists have discovered a type of sugar that could actually protect the liver.
Artichokes growing in Werribee South, an area that uses recycled water for irrigation.
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Australians eat a lot of water. Nearly 500 L is required to produce the food each of us eats every day.
Sydney’s farms on the urban fringe produce 10% of the city’s fresh vegetables.
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Farms on Sydney’s fringes supply 20% of the city’s food. That could drop by more than half if urban sprawl isn’t kept in check.
Recipe in need of improvement.
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Mars’ product recall will be an expensive business.
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We can tweak levels of a special vitamin that acts as an appetite control system.
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Humans are programmed to chose colourful, symmetrical food. But ugly alternatives are cheap and cut waste.
Foods may not have the effect you’re after but at least they won’t ruin your night.
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We still look to plants, animals and foods to increase sexual desire, prowess or pleasure. But the scientific evidence shows experimenting with “natural” supplements can be risky.
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Talking cows, talking pigs? It’s enough to send you vegetarian. Maybe …
Nutritional lunches can be achieved with simple core foods such as bread, fruit, vegetables, dairy and meat, fish or egg.
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Basic foods can fulfil a child’s nutritional needs at school and keep them energetic and alert.
The burgers that had people lining up around the block in Sydney.
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Pop-up stores allow retailers to test demand for their product, while playing on customers FoMO - fear of missing out.
Pleasure at the table, pleasure in life.
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If New Year’s resolutions have you in an abstemious mindset when it comes to enjoyment these days, consider a pleasure recalibration based on ‘l'éducation du gout.’
Genetically modified soybeans.
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Scientists are developing GM crops that don’t need pesticides and other chemicals to help them grow. Isn’t that what organic farmers want too?