Food
Articles about Food, ordered by date. 
The Interview: Vandana Shiva
The Indian physicist and veteran food sovereignty activist speaks to Amy Hall about a lifetime of keeping smiling while fighting the lies of the ‘poison cartel’.
On borrowed rice
Price hikes are leaving many in Sierra Leone unable to even afford food. Alessio Perrone reports.
Fearful future
Lauren Crosby Medlicott reports on acute food shortages in Somalia.
Bad taste
iFood riders call for better pay and the end of unfair dismissal.
What if…
What if food was guaranteed? Hazel Healy sketches out a world with nutritious diets for all people.
A taste of hope
With herders under threat from global heating in Somaliland, the government has hatched a plan to move millions to the coast. But can pastoralists adapt to fishing? Alice Rowsome and Yahye Xanas investigate.
When KFC came to Kenya
As Big Food spreads throughout the Global South using the tobacco playbook, Kabugi Mbae investigates the rise in obesity – and non-communicable diseases – in Kenya.
‘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.
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