Farmers threaten to boycott UN Food Systems Summit as it focuses on big players alone
Climate change continues to intensify globally, contributing to a world hunger crisis. Some farmers and human rights groups aren’t thrilled that the UN’s Food Systems Summit concept paper left them out of the plan for change and highlighted the importance of big corporations.
[WATCH] How this teen activist is promoting environmental stewardship, one seed at a time
Meet Alicia Serratos, the 14-year-old Girl Scout who brought seed library to every US state
Atlanta creates the largest free food forest in America
Free food forests could potentially solve a massive food insecurity issue in Canada as well, where 1 in 8 households live with food insecurity.
UN: 17% of food produced globally each year gets wasted
Approximately 1.03 billion tons of food gets wasted every year.
Catastrophic decline in freshwater fish is leading to extinction
One third of the world’s fresh water fish population is in catastrophic decline, and in danger of extinction. The situation is threatening the health, food security and livelihood of millions of people around the world. Eighty freshwater species have been declared extinct with sixteen species going extinct in 2020.
Historic winter storm destroys Texas agriculture, food supply
US President Joe Biden declared a state of emergency in the state of Texas
Michael Taylor, the Monsanto Man
Michael Taylor has emerged as a meme, as the personification of corruption within the biotech industry and the FDA.
BC launches a new program to support small-scale and Indigenous cannabis businesses
The British Columbia announces a farmgate sales program that will give small-scale and indigenous cannabis producers headway into the increasingly competitive cannabis industry.
Pesticide mixtures harm health even when each pesticide is present at “safe” levels
New study challenges regulatory assumptions and practices. Report by Claire Robinson Mixtures of pesticide residues commonly found in foods in the EU can have adverse effects on health even when each individual pesticide is present at a level considered safe by regulators, a new study shows. The study also found that the use of molecular analytical techniques […]
Bt cotton in India is a GMO template for a “monumental irreversible catastrophe”
by Colin Todhunter Cotton is the only genetically modified (GM) crop that has been officially approved in India. It has been cultivated (illegally, then legally) in the country for more than 20 years. Although GM mustard has been approved for commercial cultivation by India’s apex regulatory body for GM crops (the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee, […]
