The COVID-19 pandemic presents once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to accelerate the agroecological transition and reverse decades of neoliberal policies. (Image source: Matheus Cenali/Pexels)
The COVID-19 food crisis is closely linked to economic, social, gender and environmental injustices of free-market neoliberalism, says a report launched by the largest international space of grassroots organisations and indigenous peoples working to eradicate food insecurity and malnutrition
Transmission to humans may occur through the ingestion of contaminated food. (Image source: NIAID/Flickr)
Tentamus Agriparadigma Laboratory has said that it is further developing rapid screening methods for the search of pathogens such as Salmonella spp., Listeria spp. and monocytogenes
Solutions to stem food loss and waste include good data to know where in the value chain the major hot spots of food loss and waste are. (Image source: Oleg Magni/Pexels)
“Food loss and waste is a major challenge of our time,” said FAO director-general QU Dongyu, urging stronger partnerships, more public and private investment in training for smallholder farmers, technology and innovation to step up the fight against food loss and waste as “our planet is a small ship in the universe”
The strategic initiative is driven by six sustainability platforms to address the major challenges facing the animal-farming sector. (Image source: Oziel Gómez/Pexels)
DSM Animal Nutrition and Health company has introduced a new strategic initiative: We Make it Possible
Preservation technologies can help companies achieve significant reductions in pre-consumer food loss and post-consumer food waste. (Image source: Alfred Derks/Pixabay)
Food loss and waste (FLW) causes an estimated US$1 trillion in economic losses globally each year, constituting major humanitarian and economic crisis, leading the United Nations to set a goal of reducing global FLW by 50 per cent by 2030, according to Lux Researchs report “Preserving the Food Chain”
