The survey shows that the burden of food-related diseases is not spread equally across the world. (Image source: Igor Ovsyannykov/Pixabay)

First-ever, Lloyd’s Register Foundation World Risk Poll shows a global food safety record with more than half of the world’s population – 60% of the world’s population – saying they are worried about the food they eat and 51% about the safety of the water they drink

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”