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Westerners are used to supermarket shelves stacked with processed foods of all kinds and a trolly ready to be filled with our selections. But what would happen if the food budget was meagre?
Should you become a vegan to save the planet?
We could all just eat plants because health and vitality are a kale salad away. But there is no simple switch for such a drastic change in global land use…
Why it’s useful to think in lifetimes
Would you live for 200 years? How about the lifetime of a farm that needs to be thousands of years if humanity is to persist?
What the market needs
Who needs a dozen types of eggs and over 30,000 products in the supermarket?
Interest in sustainability
Definitions of sustainability portrays aspiration rather than reality. Here we talk through an alternative…
Just-in-time food supply chains
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 the family budget. I am one lucky…
A consumer’s take on food security
What could we expect the average shopper to know about food security or why the experts are nervous all of a sudden.
10 keys for a new commitment to nature
The UN is good for a few targets, goals and the occasional pledge. The latest one for nature might just be better than most.
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.
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...
How to predict the future
The COVID pandemic rattled our perception of the future. Should we even try to predict what happens next?
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...
Should teachers know the settled science?
According to the latest education research, teachers are overworked, underpaid, and overwhelmed by the need to know the settled science.
Comment | Is ecocide a crime against humanity?
Genocide is one of the four mass atrocity crimes alongside war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing. Ecocide is about to become one too.
The best solutions for food security are out there
Food security is within our grasp but ideas are needed to take what we know and make it happen.
