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15 Dec 2021 1 minute read

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VIDEO: ‘It’s a battle to survive’

An intimate 7-minute video portrait shares a stonecutter’s family struggling with hunger in Sierra Leone.

Illustration: Pete Reynolds

14 Oct 2021 12 minute read

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How to achieve full decolonization

Southern governments are captive to the demands of international capital, which stops them from meeting people’s real needs...

13 Oct 2021 6 minute read

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Digital dinners

Pat Mooney explores what happens when Big Data meets Big Ag. Interview by Nick Dowson.

19 Sep 2021 1 minute read

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The disappearing Senegalese sardines

Hazel Healy sheds light on a deeply dysfunctional food chain.

A wheat crop is sprayed with chemicals in South Africa. Chemical-heavy agriculture has brought despair to farmers in Punjab and Haryana, the epicentres of the Green Revolution in India. DEWALD KIRSTEN/SHUTTERSTOCK

20 Sep 2021 5 minute read

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No more green revolutions

Raj Patel critiques input-heavy agriculture.

Credit: Pete Reynolds

20 Sep 2021 1 minute read

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Where does all the food go?

There’s more than enough food – if it’s shared out evenly. A data visualization by David McCandless.

19 Sep 2021 3 minute read

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10 steps to end world hunger

1 Put food before trade

Trade rules are the architecture of an unequal and extractive food system. We need...

Perfect for peanuts. Oumar Ba is working to restore the sandy soils of the Sahel in Ndiob district, Senegal. HAZEL HEALY/NEW INTERNATIONALIST

19 Sep 2021 10 minute read

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Taking back the peanut basin

The soil is dying, the water’s running out, and climate change is rendering the future even more uncertain. Hazel...

19 Sep 2021 7 minute read

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‘Food is love’

Urban growers Dee Woods and Stefanie Swanepoel compare notes across continents with...

11 Aug 2021 3 minute read

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What if…food was guaranteed?

Hazel Healy sketches out a world with nutritious diets for all people.

10 Aug 2021 12 minute read

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A taste of hope

With herders under threat from global heating in Somaliland, the government has hatched a plan to move millions to the coast...

Searching for sustenance: In Para State, a man moves his furniture in a cart after struggling to make rent following food price inflation beginning in 2013. Credit Lalo de Almeida/Folhapress/Panos

16 Jun 2021 3 minute read

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The pandemic has worsened Brazil’s hunger crisis

A recent study suggests that as many as six in ten Brazilians are struggling to put food on the table, reports ...

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...

Chef Fatmata Binta puts the ingredient fonio – a nutritious, gluten-free and fibre-rich grain – centrestage in her Fulani Kitchen in Ghana

31 Mar 2021 1 minute read

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Freedom food

Rebel chefs are on a mission to decolonize diets across sub-Saharan Africa. Kareem Arthur goes in search of...

24 Mar 2021 5 minute read

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The interview: Michael Fakhri

Michael Fakhri, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, has a bold vision for a trade system that...

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