Tag: Food and Agriculture
Agroecology. The challenge of farming for the future
The COVID-19 outbreak has brought the world back to the essentials: health and food. Fighting the spread of the virus while ensuring access to...
Food: A fragile right in a locked-down world
Queuing at the entrance of a supermarket in a wealthy neighborhood of Rome, shortage of food seems to be just a temporary consequence of...
COVID-19. No school meals, millions of kids at risk of food insecurity
For millions of children around the world, the COVID-19 outbreak means not getting the most important, if not the only, meal of the day.
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Farmland in EU: Ordinary commodity or public good?
In the 27-member European Union, farmland is being concentrated into fewer hands at an ‘alarming’ extent and speed, according to a report approved by...
Land concentration in Europe. What we know
Farmland concentration is not just a Global South phenomenon. In the 27-member European Union, only 3.1 percent of farms controlled the 52.2 percent of...
Understanding the Seed Treaty
Cassava comes from South America, but it is feeding Africa. It is a major caloric source for 500 million people. The potato is native of the...
