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Food security

  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
    Profiteers take over Gaza food trade as UN aid falters

    War has led to private traders navigating black market and hiring armed guards to bring goods into strip

    A masked member of the Popular Committees of Protection controls traffic in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah
  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    Malnutrition crisis threatens child health gains, warns Bill Gates

    Foundation says about 40mn children are at risk of stunted growth as climate change worsens food security

    A malnourished child looks on at the nutrition unit of the Gode General Hospital, in the city of Gode, Ethiopia
  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    Japan
    Japan faces worst rice shortage in decades

    Empty shelves blamed on government’s policy of limiting production, tourist influx and extreme weather

    A farmer holding cut rice in a Japanese paddy field
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
    How open trade saved us from a global food crisis

    Fears of an international hunger emergency after the Ukraine invasion proved unfounded

    A combine harvests wheat in a field
  • Friday, 23 August, 2024
    Carbon footprint
    Pink rice serves up alternative to carbon-intensive meat

    Lab-grown proteins can reduce greenhouse gas emissions but are an expensively acquired taste

  • Monday, 19 August, 2024
    Inside BusinessNic Fildes
    What Australia tells us about rising biosecurity risk for companies

    One start-up hopes country can carve out global role in reducing threat of diseases such as bird flu spreading

    Migrating geese
  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    Foreign aid
    UN blasts ‘shamefully’ high hunger levels

    Report says issue will still affect 600mn people by the end of the decade

    Workers fill bags with maize in Nakuru, Kenya
  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
    Food & Beverage
    UK becomes first European country to approve lab-grown meat

    Cell-cultivated meat has prompted opposition in countries such as Italy, France, Austria and the US

    Photo of UK start-up Meatly
  • Wednesday, 3 July, 2024
    News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
    ‘Smuggled’ food and $64 peppers: Gaza’s grocery stores fight to survive

    Small retailers try to keep trading in bombed-out wastelands

    Palestinians shop at a market at the Jabalia Refugee Camp
  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    Food Prices
    World headed for ‘food wars’, warns major commodities trader

    Protectionist policies are exacerbating inflation, says Olam Agri

    A combine harvests wheat near Kramatorsk, in Donetsk region of Ukraine
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    Global farmed fish production overtakes wild catch for first time

    UN agency says aquaculture boom will boost food security but critics say it harms fragile marine ecosystems

    A worker throws mackerel into a sea pen to feed farmed fish in Japan.
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    Conflict and climate shocks fuel food poverty crises

    More than 25% of children under 5 years are suffering severe hunger, says Unicef report

    Palestinian children queue for food in Gaza
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    UK Government
    Government tells Britons to stockpile as part of emergency planning

    As campaign urges households to stock up on tinned food and batteries, retailers warn against panic buying

    A customer selects an item from the shelf next to an empty section
  • Sunday, 19 May, 2024
    Tim Lang
    Britain’s new food security index is a poor excuse for policy

    There is little value in Whitehall’s creation of something that suggests everything is fine

    A combine harvester in a wheat field in Essex
  • Sunday, 5 May, 2024
    UK agriculture
    Business confidence among UK farmers at its lowest

    NFU warns government that the country cannot import its way to food security

    Tom Bradshaw
  • Sunday, 21 April, 2024
    Ireland
    Extreme weather threatens Irish potato output

    Climate change blamed for difficulties facing world’s biggest consumers

    Potato field
  • Saturday, 13 April, 2024
    News in-depthUK agriculture
    ‘It’s too wet’: UK food security at risk because of record rain, farmers warn

    National Farmers’ Union seeks extra support for growers after England suffers wettest 18 months since 1836

    Luke Abblitt
  • Friday, 5 April, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    Pressure builds for early elections in Israel

    In the wake of large protests in the country, many are calling for an early vote

  • Wednesday, 3 April, 2024
    The Big Read
    Can Africa one day help feed the world’s growing population?

    The continent is a big net importer of food but optimists say better seed varieties and greater use of fertilisers are potentially transformational

    A farm worker spreads urea fertiliser over a rice field near Rosso in the Senegal River valley
  • Sunday, 31 March, 2024
    Food & Beverage
    Moves to ban lab-grown meat intensify in Republican US states

    Party spearheads legislation as one lawmaker vows not to ‘eat bugs with Bill Gates’

    A cooked piece of lab-grown chicken breast
  • Monday, 25 March, 2024
    UK agriculture
    Limits placed on removal of land from food production in England

    Government restrictions come after farmers raise concerns over domestic food security

    A colourful wildflower meadow in the foreground with agricultural crops and fields in the background on a sunny day
  • Saturday, 23 March, 2024
    Iceland to harvest more corn and less bitcoin, says PM

    Katrín Jakobsdóttir tells the FT the island nation needs food security in a hostile world

    Katrín Jakobsdóttir speaks to media
  • Tuesday, 19 March, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    EU to impose tariffs on Russian grain

    Brussels has long resisted pressure to levy import duties on food from Russia and Belarus

    Harvested wheat grain is unloaded into a truck during the summer harvest on a farm
  • Wednesday, 13 March, 2024
    Nigeria
    Nigeria hit by wave of food looting as economic crisis deepens

    Ransacking of warehouses and deadly stampede at grain sale spark fears of breakdown in law and order

    Nigerians protest in Abuja last month over the rising cost of living
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    Poland
    Zelenskyy seeks meeting with Tusk to end Polish farmers’ border blockade

    Ukraine president says protest ‘increases the threat to the supply of weapons to our warriors’

    Polish farmers take part in a blockade protest at the Dorohusk Polish-Ukrainian border crossing in Poland on February 20 2024
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