Why indeed? A snail has no notion of roads, what they are made of or what they are used for or even that it is lousy habitat for a gastropod. So what, you might ask...
Feeding Everyone Well
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MarkFinding solutions to future food
Humans are good at errors. We love telling people that they are wrong even when our pot is as burnt as their kettle. Critiques are not enough to shape our future...
Meatless Monday?
It might make you feel good to go meatless on a Monday. But what about the billions of people who do not have the luxury of such a choice? Where do they get their nutrients?
ChrisShould farmers be indentured servants?
Modern food production is geared for profit. The producer has less and less control over the process that sets input costs and price. Is it time for governments to intervene to support the family farm?
Rising inequality and food
The good, the bad, and the ugly of capitalism are with everyone now. Inequality is especially insidious with the concentration of wealth and access to food creating a wicked conundrum...
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Food
Just in time food supply
When I go to the supermarket there is always food on the shelves. I can choose among thousands of products without a care other than for the family budget. I am one lucky…
Why do farmers grow food?
Farmers grow food to feed their families and that takes courage and intimacy with risk.
Sustainably FED Comment | Now is not the time for bickering
Humans love a good argument and opinions, but we face a collective challenge that everyone should agree needs our undivided attention.
5 principles of sustainable food and agriculture
Sustainable food systems are essential for global food security and given the UN now has a set of principles for them; we decided to take a closer look.
Expansionism and food security can be the same thing
Pork consumption in China grew from 2 to 55 million tonnes in 60 years. Good news for the Chinese, along with a significant rise in expectations. Is food the reason for expansionism...
Ecology
Soil biodiversity matters
Most people have never heard of soil biodiversity, the poor man’s rainforest. But we all should know about it and especially how it maintains critical processes...
Trees, forests and carbon or why ecological knowledge matters
Ecology is so complex that even Sweden with 70% of its land area as forest might not be sustainable
Key challenges for rewilding 30% of the planet
Rewilding is a proposal to avoid a dystopian future and 30% rewilding is needed to keep us within planetary limits.
Why not ban an insecticide that kills bees?
Pesticides are excellent for the control of pests but what happens when they attack your friends?
Are we united to reverse biodiversity loss?
Loss of biodiversity will affect the survival of humanity. Grandiose perhaps, but will pledges be enough?
Diet
Defining what we mean by processed food?
Researchers devised a system to determine what is meant by ‘processed food’. This is good news because we need to know how much processing is too much.
Is there a choice in what to have for dinner?
If you shop in a supermarket there seems like an endless choice of tasty food options. But let’s look a little closer…
Food advice and health just don’t add up
There is a clear link between non-communicable disease and diet. Sometimes those we depend upon for facts let us down
Ultra-processed food doesn’t grow on trees
Food that is ultra-processed is a relatively recent addition to the human diet
Dining with the stars
The Healthy Star Ratings on our food are intended to help us make food choices that support our health. But is this what they do?
