Food
Articles about Food, ordered by date. 
‘People just aren’t paid enough’
Witness to hunger by Penny Walters.
How food banks went global
The rise of food charity in some of the most affluent countries is surely a sign that something has gone badly wrong. So why is this broken model being exported to the rest of the world? Charlie Spring investigates.
When it is illegal to waste food
By supermarkets, that is. Timothy Baster and Isabelle Merminod on the progress of a much-lauded French law.
Marcela’s recipe: How to make a soft coup
This dish may seem a bit challenging at first glance, but is guaranteed to impress your guests!
Action! What can I do?
The following organizations give advice and information, and campaign on GM, food safety and sovereignty.
From bins to bellies
Lydia James uncovers some novel ways to divert food from landfill.
Cooking for peace
Sometimes simple things can build understanding. Noreen Sadik reports from Israel.
Selling out the farm
Ray Burley is caught in the cost/price squeeze.
Peak soil
David R Montgomery on the one thing we can’t afford to run out of.
Food Crisis - The Facts
The increase in global food prices may have temporarily stalled but food is expected to remain at record price levels for the foreseeable future. Industrial agriculture’s chickens have come home to roost. But the price is being paid not by agribusiness and food retailers but by small farmers whose income remains low, and by the millions being pushed into malnutrition.
Meat's too expensive
Chris Brazier makes the case for a green and fair diet.
World food crisis
Harvests have fallen short of targets in almost all the most populous parts of the world. As food shortages reach crisis point for millions of people in the poor world, Keith Abercrombie spells out the present situation and analyses the underlying issues which threaten to set back the whole process of world development in the Second Development Decade.
The Second Front
The New Internationalist monthly campaigning page on third world issues.
Articles in this category displayed as a table:
| Article title | From magazine | Publication date |
|---|---|---|
| ‘People just aren’t paid enough’ | A caring economy | November, 2020 |
| How food banks went global | A caring economy | November, 2020 |
| When it is illegal to waste food | The dirt on waste | November, 2018 |
| Marcela’s recipe: How to make a soft coup | Brazil's soft coup | October, 2017 |
| Action! What can I do? | Total control - is Monsanto unstoppable? | April, 2015 |
| From bins to bellies | The politics of language loss | June, 2014 |
| Nutrition double-whammy | The war on whistleblowers | April, 2014 |
| Cooking for peace | Co-operatives | July, 2012 |
| In brief | Mental health | May, 2012 |
| Selling out the farm | Crisis! Crisis! Food... Money... What next? | December, 2008 |
| Peak soil | Crisis! Crisis! Food... Money... What next? | December, 2008 |
| Food Crisis - The Facts | Crisis! Crisis! Food... Money... What next? | December, 2008 |
| Meat's too expensive | Crisis! Crisis! Food... Money... What next? | December, 2008 |
| World food crisis | World food crisis | March, 1973 |
| The Second Front | World food crisis | March, 1973 |
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