Director-General begins visit to Brazil highlighting the importance of strengthening South-South and Triangular Cooperation

FAO, ROMA | 11/09/2023 BRASÍLIA | The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, kicked off a three-day official visit to Brazil with…

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Director-General QU Dongyu visiting EMBRAPA in Brasilia, Brazil

Ultra-processed foods may be linked to increased risk of cancer

Higher consumption of ultra-processed foods may be linked to an increased risk of developing and dying from cancer, an Imperial-led study suggests By Conrad Duncan in Imperial College London |…

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Higher consumption of ultra-processed foods may be linked to an increased risk of developing and dying from cancer, an Imperial-led study suggests

Feeding big agribusiness, starving Africans

African Green Revolution Forum: Feeding agribusiness while Africans go hungry As this year's African Green Revolution Forum opens September 5 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Zambian researcher and activist Mutinta…

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Ultra-processed food raises risk of heart attack and stroke, two studies show

Research presented to annual meeting of European Society of Cardiology prompts calls for action By Andrew Gregory in The Guardian | 27/08/2023 Ultra-processed food significantly raises the risk of high…

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Ultra-processed foods are products that have gone through multiple processes during manufacturing

Higher food prices can reduce poverty and stimulate growth in food production

Nature Food volume 4, pages699–706 (2023) Abstract Food prices spiked sharply in 2007–2008, in 2010–2011 and again in 2021–2022. However, the impacts of these spikes on poverty remain controversial; while food is a…

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Scatterplots and linear regression fits of the associations between changes in real food prices (%) and changes in a country’s food production quantity, agricultural GDP, crop production and livestock production