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This year’s G20 faces more difficult challenges than ever before.
Bola Tinubu will be saddled with a near comatose economy. Here are four priorities that would make the difference.
How well Morocco manages challenges to its fertiliser industry will affect its own development and the stability of food supplies across the world.
Negotiations between Russia and Turkey to ensure safe passage of Ukrainian grain hint at a new era of global food diplomacy.
Crisis is a given for resource-poor households globally, but — in the absence of supportive policies — so are these careful strategies of self-provisioning and mutual aid.
Egypt is already feeling the impact of the war, which has led to recent cancellation of tenders due to lack of offers, in particular from Ukraine and Russia.
Out of the last six years in Madagascar, five years have had poor or very bad rainy seasons.
The pandemic has disrupted local, regional and national supply chains, making the problem of hunger in India much worse.
Apart from their functional purpose, products can also impact how we feel, both about ourselves and our situation.
We all need to eat. Experts imagine how the next agricultural revolution can feed us while fighting climate change and habitat destruction, instead of accelerating it.
It’s wrong to blame climate change for famine and conflict. These can either be prevented, or the impact minimised, if institutions and mechanisms of good governance are in place.
Australia’s deserts can be a harsh environment but plant life still survives there. So why not use them to develop the next generation of drought-resistant crops?
Science and technology has always helped us feed the world. GM has more to offer, if we let it.
Charitable food provision is growing, and more and more people are being fed by food banks and other initiatives. The press and TV have debated the legitimacy of such provision and highlighted the number…
Resource-intensive agriculture, despite its productivity, nevertheless has failed to feed the world’s current population, never mind the nine billion people expected by 2050. This system that currently…
How much would you pay for staying alive? How much would you pay for breathing pure air? That may seem a silly question since air is everywhere, accessible to all. Air is a global public good, part of…
New research has shown that garlic supplements in the diets of fish can keep fanged parasites at bay. Parasites can endanger…
The launch of the lab-bred “meat” in London was a masterly act of timing, theatre, and media management. But now that rabbit is out of the hat, there are questions that need to be asked, and answers that…
When “the world’s first laboratory-grown burger” was unveiled, cooked and eaten last week, the story received saturation news coverage. But was it really the first? Or was this story served up to a ravenous…
Top contributors
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Associate Professor, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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PhD, Political Economy, Macquarie University
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Researcher in the Food Security Program at the Centre for International Security Studies, University of Sydney
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Professor, Charles Sturt University
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ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor of Cultural Studies, The University of Queensland
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Murdoch University
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PhD student, University of Buckingham
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Professor of Food Policy, City, University of London
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Doctoral Researcher on food governance. Centre of Philosophy of Law, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)
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Senior Research fellow, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of Food and Social Policy, University of Warwick
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Professor of Economics & Business, Allegheny College
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Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Director of the Climate Hazards Center, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Researcher, Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University
