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17 Mar 2021 3 minute read

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What if…we banned the intensive farming of animals?

Hazel Healy imagines an end to cheap meat.

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.

An ingenious agroforestry farming system, which combines trees, shrubs and crops is practiced throughout Ethiopia’s lush southern highlands. OLIVIER BOURGUET/ALAMY

6 Jan 2021 1 minute read

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How ancient forest gardens keep hunger at bay

Tesfa-Alem Tekle showcases the unique agroforestry system that sustains communities in Ethiopia’s southern...

When thousands of genetically identical birds are stacked together – like these chickens on a farm in France – there are no immunological firebreaks to stop the spread of disease. GETTY IMAGES

8 Jan 2021 1 minute read

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Planet farm

Rob Wallace connects industrialized farming to the emergence of ever more deadly pathogens.

Socorro Aguilar de-spines a cactus pad in Real de Catorce, Mexico. She likes to cook it up with onions, tomato and chillies or drink it in smoothies.

6 Jan 2021 2 minute read

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Back to the wild

Natalia Torres Garzon on the return to wild food sources in Mexico.

The Union of Land Workers (UTT) and other associations convened a greengrocer in Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, on March 10, 2020 in support of the measure of the National Government to increase the retention of soybeans to the largest producers and in rejection of the unemployment of the field. Photo by Carol Smiljan/NurPhoto

17 Nov 2020 6 minute read

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9 inspiring food-aid projects

Emergency relief can be done in ways that go beyond sticking-plaster solutions. Frideswide O’Neill and...

10 Nov 2020 1 minute read

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How foodbanks went global

The rise of food charity in some of the most affluent countries is surely a sign that something has gone badly wrong. So why...

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 ...

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29 Sep 2020 1 minute read

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Hunger: the facts

A data dive into global trends explores how rising malnourishment co-exists with overabundance and waste.

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30 Sep 2020 1 minute read

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Death by Covid-19 – or hunger?

The pandemic has left millions of people on the brink of starvation. Hazel Healy asks why our food system...

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28 Sep 2020 3 minute read

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Introducing… the Food Justice files

New Internationalist launches a one-year series dedicated to unpicking why hunger persists.

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