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Counting the Beans: New Tool Measures the True Cost of Food

by Food Tank Food Tank January 10, 2018

A new U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) tool is highlighting the true cost of food by presenting variation in the cost of food around the world. The tool, called Counting the Beans, includes a data-driven, open-access online interface to help both expe...

A volunteer picks up food bank donations from a French supermarket [Philippe Wojazer/Reuters]

How France became a global leader in curbing food waste

by Story Hinckley The Christian Science Monitor January 7, 2018

France isn't an obvious frontrunner in food recovery, but new legislation has helped catapult the nation to the top of the 2017 Food Sustainability Index. People in France wasted an average of 234 pounds of food per person annually compared to about ...

War widows at the Palorinya refugee camp. (Photo: Sheiler Mysorekar/DW)

Africa: 10 Humanitarian Crises to Look Out for in 2018

by IRIN via All Africa January 4, 2018

From the Rohingya to South Sudan, hurricanes to famine, 2017 was full of disasters and crises. But 2018 is shaping up to be even worse. Here's why....

A health official in the Nigerian town of Dikwa measures the arm circumference of a child as part of a drive to control malnutrition. (Photo: Florian Plaucheur/AFP/Getty Images)

The year’s top development stories: 2017 in review

by Lucy Lamble The Guardian December 29, 2017

As Donald Trump cut funding for family planning and people from east Africa to Yemen went hungry, peace finally gained a foothold in Colombia....

Photo: Brahman cattle graze in a field in Innisfail, Queensland, Australia. [David Messent/Getty Images]

Across The World, If You Eat For Your Health, You’ll Help The Planet

by Dan Charles NPR December 4, 2017

Paul Behrens, a researcher at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, published an analysis of 37 countries' dietary recommendations and compared how they might affect the environment....

Food losses represent a waste of resources used in production such as land, water, energy and inputs, increasing the green gas emissions in vain. Photo: FAO

One Third of Food Lost, Wasted – Enough to Feed All Hungry People

by Baher Kamal InterPress Service News Agency December 1, 2017

Believe it or not, the way to eradicate hunger from the face of the Earth is as feasible as it is handy. In fact, the current loss and waste of one-third of all food produced for human consumption would be just enough to feed the nearly one billion p...

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