Posts Tagged: Agribusiness

It’s great news that the UK government has held a hunger summit. And, if rumours are to be believed, hunger will also be the focus of its G8 presidency. Eradicating hunger is easier than we think: we can feed the world and leave room for nature. We already produce enough to feed eight billion people. So, [...]

DEFRA’s Green Food Project (GFP), launched today, states it’s the start of a process that hopes to steer the UK food system to a sustainable future, where it remains a world leader in producing high-quality food. Food that contributes to a healthy population and conserves the natural environment. We completely agree with those aims, but [...]

The Chihuahuan Desert is the largest desert in North America and home to millions of people and species. Neither people nor wildlife in the desert could live without the rivers that flow through it – the Rio Conchos and the Rio Grande. I travelled to the region in late 2011 to work with my Mexican [...]

Update 22 May: sign the urgent petition before Friday! Join the millions asking Brazil’s president to veto the disastrous changes to the forest law! Just a few months ago, Rio de Janeiro seemed the perfect backdrop for the upcoming UN Conference on Sustainable Development (aka Rio+20). In the past decade, Brazil has made huge progress [...]

Over the next three weeks you’ll hear a lot from WWF-UK and other environmental organisations about something called Brazil’s Forest Code/law. The reason for this is that Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff now has only a small window of time to put the brakes on recent negative changes to a law that has been so critical [...]