Photo: Drona

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’.

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NI 543 - Loneliness - May, 2023
On borrowed rice

On borrowed rice

Price hikes are leaving many in Sierra Leone unable to even afford food. Alessio Perrone reports.

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NI 541 - The cost of living crisis - January, 2023
Fearful future

Fearful future

Lauren Crosby Medlicott reports on acute food shortages in Somalia.

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NI 538 - Rivers of life - July, 2022
Bad taste

Bad taste

iFood riders call for better pay and the end of unfair dismissal.

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NI 534 - The future of work - November, 2021
Illustration: Andy Carter

What if…

What if food was guaranteed? Hazel Healy sketches out a world with nutritious diets for all people.

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NI 532 - Courage and terror in Myanmar - July, 2021
Breakfast in Berbera. A young man eats in a tea shop in one of Somaliland’s coastal towns, which is drawing in former pastoralists who are re-training as fishers.Tommy Trenchard/Panos

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.

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NI 532 - Courage and terror in Myanmar - July, 2021
The expansion of fast-food brands in Africa is backed by powerful advertising such as this billboard on Kenyatta Avenue, a major street in the central business district of Nairobi, Kenya. The country is now home to 22 KFC outlets, which have paved the way for other international chains - Subway, Domino’s Pizza, Cold Stone Creamery - that are expanding into East Africa.Photo: Brian Inganga

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.

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NI 531 - Vaccine equality - May, 2021
A volunteer at the West End Food Bank in Byker, Newcastle. Over 1.9 million in Britain are now reliant on food handouts in the UK. Photo: Tessa Bunney

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.

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NI 528 - A caring economy - November, 2020
Unsaleable fruit at the wholesale food market of Rungis, Paris, gets sorted so that what is still usable can go to food banks.Photo: Martin BUREAU/AFP/Getty

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.

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NI 516 - The dirt on waste - November, 2018
Marcela's Recipe of the month

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!

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NI 506 - Brazil's soft coup - October, 2017

Action! What can I do?

The following organizations give advice and informa­tion, and campaign on GM, food safety and sovereignty.

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NI 481 - Total control - is Monsanto unstoppable? - April, 2015
Gleaners recover tonnes of pumpkins such as these at a farm near Southampton, England.Photo: Gleaning Network UK

From bins to bellies

Lydia James uncovers some novel ways to divert food from landfill.

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NI 473 - The politics of language loss - June, 2014
Piping hot: sharing daily tasks like cooking can open the door to mutual respect and understanding.Givat Haviva

Cooking for peace

Sometimes simple things can build understanding. Noreen Sadik reports from Israel.

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NI 454 - Co-operatives - July, 2012

Selling out the farm

Ray Burley is caught in the cost/price squeeze.

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NI 418 - Crisis! Crisis! Food... Money... What next? - December, 2008
A Saskatchewan dust storm blows away the future. Photo by Courtney Milne

Peak soil

David R Montgomery on the one thing we can’t afford to run out of.

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NI 418 - Crisis! Crisis! Food... Money... What next? - December, 2008
Photo: Qilai Shen / Panos

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.

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NI 418 - Crisis! Crisis! Food... Money... What next? - December, 2008
Photo by Andrew Kokotka.

Meat's too expensive

Chris Brazier makes the case for a green and fair diet.

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NI 418 - Crisis! Crisis! Food... Money... What next? - December, 2008

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
Loneliness May, 2023
The cost of living crisis January, 2023
Rivers of life July, 2022
The future of work November, 2021
Courage and terror in Myanmar July, 2021
Courage and terror in Myanmar July, 2021
Vaccine equality May, 2021
A caring economy November, 2020
A caring economy November, 2020
The dirt on waste November, 2018
Brazil's soft coup October, 2017
Total control - is Monsanto unstoppable? April, 2015
The politics of language loss June, 2014
The war on whistleblowers April, 2014
Co-operatives July, 2012
Mental health May, 2012
Crisis! Crisis! Food... Money... What next? December, 2008
Crisis! Crisis! Food... Money... What next? December, 2008
Crisis! Crisis! Food... Money... What next? December, 2008
Crisis! Crisis! Food... Money... What next? December, 2008
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