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UK food and drink industry urges government to delay sugar tax plan
2016-07-12 01:00:00| Food Processing Technology
The UK's food and drink industry has urged the government to delay its plans for sugar tax as it fears this will affect businesses due to rising inflation, worker shortage and weak consumer confidence after the Brexit vote.
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Fostering Sustainable, Resilient Food Security In Nigeria
2016-07-11 22:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Leadership: Agriculture accounts for about 24 percent of Nigerias Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and employs about 70 percent of the labour force in the country. It is dominated by about 15 million smallholders (mostly women) who account for over 90 percent of the national food. They farm an average of 1 to 2 hectares per smallholder, usually with little or limited mechanization, access to fertilizers, and preservation or storage facilities. Average prevalence of food inadequacy and domestic food price volatility...
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Climate and Energy Progress Boosted by Food Waste Inquiry
2016-07-11 21:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Technical Director of the REA, Jeremy Jacobs, has commented on the news that the Environmental, Food, and Rural Affairs Committee has launched a new investigative report. The report will look into the economic, social and environmental impact of food waste in the UK. The announcement of this food waste inquiry is another step forwards in the movement for UK-wide separate food waste collections. While the Committee should recognise that the waste hierarchy is followed wherever possible, separate...
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Germany Plans to Cut Food Waste in Half by 2030
2016-07-11 16:13:00| Waste Age
Add Germany to the list of nations putting in place ambitious plans to cut food waste in the coming years. read more
Food shortages and sea level rise US voters' top climate change concerns
2016-07-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Diminishing food and water security and ruinous sea level rise are the leading climate change concerns of a section of the American electorate that is aghast at the lack of discussion of global warming during the presidential debate. A Guardian US survey of its readers found that pressure on food and water supplies is considered the most important consequence of climate change. Sea level rise, which is set to inundate coastal areas currently occupied by millions of Americans, is second on the...
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