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The independent research company, Datamonitor, yesterday released its report on the rate of Britain’s child obesity. Alarmingly, the report declared that British children are spending nearly twice as much annually on sweets and chocolates, with British …
The conference on biodiversity (CBD), running from 10-21 May 2010, is currently taking place in Nairobi. As 2010 is also the UN “International Year of Biodiversity” there has been quite a lot of activity surrounding …
In January 2010, DEFRA produced a handy assessment of the UK’s food security in a helpful matrix. The assessment covers issues under the headings: Global Availability, Global Resource Sustainability, UK Availability and Access, UK Food …
This is a video presentation by Professor Tim Lang on the the New Fundamentals, those being the key areas of concern for global food security and sustainability. Professor Lang, in his lecture at the Garden …
President Obama’s Health Care Bill caused a great stir in the public media yet beyond the issue of insurance coverage the bill has also facilitated other, less publicized benefits for public health. One such benefit …
Information regarding the imperative for governments to increase cohesion by integrating their activities and policies has become increasingly abundant. ‘Integrated policy response’ has moved beyond a trendy catch phrase and has begun to find traction. …
Dr. Louise Sperling is the world’s foremost expert on seed aid. Throughout her extensive field work Dr. Sparling has sought to negotiate the often-tenuous balance between providing much needed relief and doing no harm to …
This recently published article by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars examines the issue of foreign land acquisitions for food production. The Article entitled, Land Grab? The Race for the World’s Farmland (Kugelman & …
Raj Patel has been a long-time champion of food sovereignty, the grass-roots counter-argument to market-driven agricultural policy. In this free article by the Journal of Peasant Studies Dr. Patel contrasts the notions of food sovereignty …
India’s Green Revolution was the catalyst behind transitioning a nation that was afflicted by constant famine to one realising food sustainability. Forty years on and we can better assess the medium-term impacts of the radical …
