Global Cause
World Food Day Q3 2023
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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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Digital farming solutions: how to adopt ‘win-win’ approach to sustainable agriculture
A digitally connected mindset in agriculture is key to implementing sustainable practices across the supply chain and creating shared commercial value for all stakeholders involved. Embracing sustainability and pursuing profitability with purpose are essential dimensions of a modern, responsible agribusiness business strategy. This transformative mindset, supported by advancements in digital, data and AI, represents a...
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“This food crisis is deadly: it’s a race against time”
There are over 800 million people in the world who live every day challenged by food insecurity. It is a crisis because people cannot access enough nutritious food to meet their basic needs. The unfortunate reality is that many people I come across, with the Red Cross in East Africa, are some of the most...
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Why we need to provide food security and protect the environment
We must deliver food security for an increasing global population, whilst at the same time meeting the challenges of climate change and conserving our natural environment. By 2050, the global population could be 10 billion people. The land available to feed them is not increasing; and global food security has been shown to be more...
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The power farmers have to build sustainable, resilient food systems
Farmers hold the key to ensuring a positive impact on nature and meeting the needs of a growing global population with fresh, nutritious food. Lab-grown food isn’t the answer to hunger or environmental issues. In the battle against global hunger and the pursuit of resilient food systems, one crucial group emerges as the unsung heroes:...
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How to change the system — one food product at a time
Our current, linear food system is not only fuelling climate change and driving biodiversity loss but increasingly feeling its twin impacts. Cause and effect can be seen through the microcosm of any kitchen. The designed sameness of kitchen cabinets is matched by the homogeneity of their contents; in today’s food system, just four staple crops...
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Five critical actions to help feed the world’s growing population
The world is producing more food than ever. But more people than ever — around 800 million — don’t know where their next meal will come from. Food crises are complex, and the temptation is to fix the symptom rather than identify the cause. The underlying systemic issue remains: We need to radically transform our food...
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Steel packaging: a sustainable solution for a more circular future
Steel packaging, a model material for a circular economy, plays a vital role in battling food waste — one of the greatest challenges we face today. In the EU, nearly 59 million tonnes of food waste are generated each year (Eurostat 2022), contributing to a staggering 16% of total greenhouse gas emissions produced by the...
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How measuring environmental impact of products will help businesses
Businesses are urged to take steps now to decrease their environmental impact and mitigate the costs of recycling products and packaging under new Government-legislated obligations. Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for packaging will mean that in addition to producers contributing to recycling costs at the far end of the waste management chain, they will also now...