South Korea last week approved $8 million in food aid to North Korea, in response to what U.N. agencies say are the worst harvests there in a decade and severe food shortages affecting 40% of the North’s population.
Author: Sarah Polaski
What North Korea’s Markets Could Tell Us About Its Food Security
In early May, the United Nation’s World Food Program (WFP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization warned that 40 percent of North Korea’s population – 10.1 million people – “are food insecure and in urgent need of food assistance.” In findings based off a two-week fact-finding trip to North Korea.
To Reduce Food Waste, FDA Urges ‘Best If Used By’ Date Labels
In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration is changing food labels to discourage food waste.
Maine to draw up plan to eliminate food insecurity by 2030
Maine is set to draw up a plan to eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in the state by 2030.
TRASHED: Leftovers in the landfill lead to food-waste problem for DC region
In the United States capital region, local governments are creating programs to help deal with food waste.
In modern Britain, hunger has become normal. That is an outrage
The UK is a rich country, but food poverty is now a daily reality for many families. This is not inevitable, writes Shaista Aziz who is a Labour councillor in Oxford.
MAZON Congressional Briefing Addresses Hunger Crisis In Rural America
MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger held a congressional briefing “Local Perspectives on Hunger in Rural America” on Thursday, May 16, 2019 with its Emerging Advocacy Fund (EAF) partners representing the most food-insecure states in the nation. The briefing provided an opportunity to address prevalent issues that underlie hunger in rural America, an often-overlooked crisis.
Replace soil with foam to solve global food security crisis, say scientists
Specially developed foams could help avert a global food security crisis by replacing fast-degrading soils, according to scientists.
Experts from the new Institute for Sustainable Food at the University of Sheffield have found that crops planted in polyurethane foams at an urban farm grow two to 10 times faster than plants grown in soil.
Using a network of pipes, nutrient solutions, controlled growing environments and foams, scientists are growing everything from salad to tomatoes—demonstrating a potential solution to the global crisis of soil fertility.
Food waste in Canada is staggering. But is it our fault?
The Big Story podcast interviews Lori Nikkel, CEO of Second Harvest, about food waste in Canada.
We waste enough food every year in Canada to feed a second country. The scope of the problem has finally been measured and it’s immense. But food waste is not what you probably think it is.
Seven-Eleven leads Japan’s drive to cut food waste
Seven-Eleven Japan will ease a delivery requirement for food makers as part of efforts to reduce food waste.
The operator of the 7-Eleven convenience store chain will accept short-dated instant noodles that otherwise would have been thrown away under current regulations.
Seven-Eleven is effectively breaking with the “one-third rule,” which requires food makers to deliver products within the first third of the period between the production and expiration dates. Products that are delivered past the date are returned to makers and mostly discarded.
