India’s protesting farmers remain in place
Protesting Indian farmers remained in place over the weekend while their key coalition of unions, Samyukta Kisan Morcha, met. The coalition was deciding how to react to the country’s Prime Minister...
View ArticleUN expert seeks accountability over 600 dead Indian protestors
A UN special rapporteur has called for accountability in the heavy-handed response to protesting farmers in India. He added that the Indian government should now progress any reform with full respect...
View ArticleBig Data – caution not luddism
Farming is always being urged to modernise. Newer, bigger, faster tractors. Combines that almost drive themselves. GPS-driven precision sprays and robotics that don’t need a farmer but a geek in a...
View ArticleUK supermarkets are operating on a knife edge
UK supermarkets are using a business model which has placed them on a knife edge, says a report by Professor Lisa Jack, an accountancy academic who focuses on the food system. Her discussion paper,...
View ArticleKFC in Kenya got fried over chip shortage
International supply chains became the hot topic in Kenya when KFC said it was unable to offer fries, according to the BBC. This was because it could not import its preferred pre-sliced potatoes from...
View ArticleExperts: Mandatory labelling can drive sustainability
Mandatory egg labelling is a good example of creating “clear, consistent demand” – driving improvements across a supply chain, according to a policy expert at the UK’s Department for Environment, Food...
View ArticleClimate change and profitless farming pose critical business risks
Climate change is the most influential risk to food and agriculture, according to a new report by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and KPMG. “We cannot overstate the siren...
View ArticlePaying farmers 75p for each £1 consumers spend on their produce
I aim to introduce you to a new way of looking at business, in which the entrepreneur is a development actor, part of an ecosystem in which they can play a transformative role. This is regenerative...
View ArticleFertilisers: going cold turkey in a time of crisis
Farmers across the world began shunning fertiliser in late March as prices skyrocketed, so much so that now stockpiles are growing as prices fall. Will fertilisers find their way back onto the land?...
View ArticleSri Lanka’s organic farming disaster, explained
Vox explains how government-mandated only organic farming has contributed to Sri Lanka’s economic free fall. There’s no singular cause for the crisis, which had been building for years due to political...
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