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Tag Archives: right to food
#Gender, the right to #food and future priorities – a interview with Hilal Elver, the UN’s 3rd Rapporteur on the Right to Food
I met up with Hilal Elver, the UN’s 3rd Rapporteur on the Right to Food just before she took part in the fifth of a series of seminars on Ecofeminism, Food and Social Justice of the Food Research Collaboration at … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, food, Gender, Hilal Elver, Human rights, nutrition, right to food, SDGs, sustainable developmen goals, urbanisation
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A Recipe for Inequality: Why our food system is leaving low-income households behind – Fabian Commission #foodandpoverty interim report
I’m on my way to Glasgow to chair a hearing of the Fabian Commision on Food and Poverty tonight. Yesterday, we released our interim report ‘A Recipe for Inequality: Why our food system is leaving low-income households behind’. You can … Continue reading
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Tagged feeding britain, food and poverty, food banks, food security, food system, inequality, poverty, right to food, UK
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Great start for the free, on-line Food Systems Academy launched Monday 27 October
I’m delighted that the new on-line, open education resource, the Food Systems Academy got off to a great start yesterday. Many thanks to all those who have already tweeted – @FoodSystemsAcad – and blogged about it. It provides a dozen key-note talks … Continue reading
Getting the facts straight about #foodinsecurity
I just wrote this blog for the #EndHungerUK campaign, prior to its national conference on 17th October in London In September 2015, the British Government committed itself to end hunger and all forms of malnutrition. It was then that the … Continue reading →