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World Food Day
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From farm to table: farmers’ key role in global food security
Learn how and why economically, socially and environmentally sustainable agriculture can address global food security challenges. Food is a fundamental human right. It is at the heart of the culture, tradition, value and conviviality of any healthy community. Food comes from ‘real agriculture’ — the hard work of farmers who cultivate crops, raise livestock and...
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Protected: How alternative proteins could help solve the UK’s land crunch
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How revolutionising food and beverage packaging can drive shift to a circular economy
Find out how innovations in food and beverage packaging can help tackle the plastic pollution crisis. Whether it is our drinks bottles, microwave meals or sachets of ketchup, plastic packaging has become synonymous with our food and beverage products. In many cases, the packaging has become more identifiable than the meal itself. Circular economy tackles...
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Innovation needed to combat climate-related hunger
Conflict and the climate crisis are driving unprecedented levels of global hunger. As the gap between humanitarian needs and resources grows, innovation is bringing some much-needed optimism. Conflict and the climate crisis are driving unprecedented levels of global hunger. As the gap between humanitarian needs and resources grows, innovation is bringing some much-needed optimism. ...
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How the pandemic damaged our progress in plastic recycling
Covid-19 put action on plastic pollution at risk, but governments are getting back on track. In tackling this environmental problem, they must make sure not to create new ones. In early 2020, before Covid upended everything, Pew Charitable Trusts’ Breaking the plastic wave report showed the world was on track to triple the amount of...
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We’re changing our relationship with plastic packaging — for the better
We’ve all seen the projections, and they’re shocking. More plastic in the ocean than fish by 2050 (by weight),1 is just one example. Despite this, the use of plastics, and the resulting plastic waste is projected to almost triple globally by 2060.2 In tackling a challenge of this size and complexity, it is increasingly clear that...
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Working towards more sustainable plastic packaging
Making plastic packaging more environmentally friendly has moved forward considerably in the past 40 years or so, but there are still challenges to tackle. Recent and upcoming legislative measures aimed at making the industry greener are accelerating change in the plastic packaging industry. One was the introduction of the Plastics Packaging Tax. Nonetheless, the sector...
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There is no food security without clean cooking
Food policy often overlooks the way families cook, but accelerating access to clean cooking is essential to ensuring equitable and resilient food systems. Since 2020, the impacts of the climate crisis, Covid-19 and global conflict have doubled the number of people facing acute food insecurity to 345 million today. This challenge is exacerbated by high...
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How better packaging can make food systems more resilient
Better packaging can play a part in strengthening the resilience of our fragile food systems. A new report has a range of suggestions highlighting how this could work in practice. The world relies on food systems to drive prosperity and drastically reduce undernutrition and hunger. Recently, however, it’s become glaringly apparent that these same systems...
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How the flexible packaging of the future can leave plastic and its problems behind
With 45% of global greenhouse gas emissions dependent on the way we produce and consume products and food, sustainable flexible packaging has never been more important. In 1907, Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland invented Bakelite, the first fully synthetic plastic. It was marketed as ‘the material of a thousand uses’ – by the time of Baekeland’s...