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Someone wearing a grey hoodie walks through a field of strawberries holding a box. Other people pick fruit in the background.

17 Mar 2023 5 minute read

Food barons are making a killing from this crisis

Ahead of their event on resisting monopoly capitalism, Global Justice Now’s Nick Dearden explains the rise...

14 Jan 2022 8 minute read

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Old school adaptation

Moushumi Basu reports from Assam, India, on the people turning to traditional ‘home grown’ strategies to...

19 Sep 2021 1 minute read

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The disappearing Senegalese sardines

Hazel Healy sheds light on a deeply dysfunctional food chain.

Zambia’s Spiced Tilapia Stew Credit: Alexander Mychko / Alamy Stock Photo

10 Jun 2021 3 minute read

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Zambia’s meal-finishers

Audrey Simango reports on the phenomena of young men taking over abandoned meals.

Backed by powerful advertising campaigns, KFC now has 22 outlets in Kenya, paving the way for other chains - Subway, Domino’s Pizza, Cold Stone Creamery - that are expanding into East Africa. Credit: Brian Inganga

8 Jun 2021 1 minute read

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When KFC came to Kenya

As Big Food spreads throughout the Global South using the tobacco playbook, Kabugi Mbae investigates the...

Faustina, a street vendor in Accra, Ghana, has a steady stream of customers each day. She pays daily, monthly, and annual tolls to the Accra Metropolitan Assembly in order to carry out her work. Women like Faustina constitute about 70 per cent of the union's membership, and vendors of vegetables, grains, legumes, fish, and other related items like utensils, charcoal, and provisions are well represented. Jonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images/Images of Empowerment

17 Mar 2021 4 minute read

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Business interests have hijacked the UN food summit

Small farmers, social movements and human rights are being elbowed out, says Kirtana Chandrasekaran.

Penny Walters in the kitchen at Byker Community Centre where she volunteers as a chef twice a week. Credit: Tessa Bunney

9 Nov 2020 3 minute read

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‘People can't afford to eat'

Penny Walters bears witness to food poverty in the UK and suggests a way out of it. As told to ...

Visit Organic For All to support small organic farmers struggling with the production costs of organic food.

22 Sep 2020 7 minute read

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Organic food is a ‘human right’, says leading food scientist

To stamp out pesticides from our fragile food systems is to protect those most prone to ill health, Friends of the Earth’s...

Soldiers patrol Santiago, Chile. (February, 2020) Credit: Daniel Guzman Espinoza

26 Jul 2020 5 minute read

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Criminalizing hunger

In Chile, state security forces are increasingly detaining, beating and harassing the volunteers of community-led soup...

11 Jun 2020 4 minute read

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The hidden polluters

Agricultural air pollution seems to be a tough nut to crack. Amy Hall explores the air-pollution problem...

A worker wraps an iceberg lettuce at a lettuce plantation in Pulpi, near Almeria, southeast Spain February 13, 2017. Picture taken February 13, 2017. REUTERS/Jon Nazca

26 Apr 2020 4 minute read

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The plight of Spain’s migrant workers

Many in Southern Spain's migrant workforce have long been alleging systematic exploitation from employers. Clare...

3 Jan 2019 2 minute read

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Bangkok street sellers live to fry another day

Peter Yeung reports on the politics of street food in Bangkok - an informal industry currently under threat...

French law forbids food waste by supermarkets ... France has become the first country in the world to ban supermarkets from throwing ... In December a bill on the issue passed through the national assembly, having been

24 Dec 2018 2 minute read

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When it is illegal to waste food

By supermarkets, that is. Timothy Baster and Isabelle Merminod on the progress of a much-...

Glyphosate and Roundup: a Monsanto protestor. Photo: Donna Cleveland, CC-BY-2.0

22 Aug 2018 5 minute read

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Time for Roundup to wind up?

After decades muddying the science, Monsanto may at last account for its weedkiller’s effects, writes Claire...

5 Jun 2018 5 minute read

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If we all became vegan tomorrow

The Guardian repeats the myth that becoming vegan is the ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth....

Peasants feed world: examples of the rich variety of foods produced by peasant farming.

14 Dec 2017 5 minute read

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The road to food sovereignty

Peasants, not industrial agriculture, are the way to feed the world, argue Pat Mooney and Nnimmo...

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