Tea estates in southern India are hiring temporary workers during peak plucking season and denying these labourers basic rights as required by law, said a report released on Tuesday. A survey of two tea estates inTamil Nadu – both certified by the international nonprofit Rainforest Alliance – found that in
The State Council of China has approved an assessment system for provincial and municipal governments on their performance of food safety management, as an effort to improve food safety and ensure people’s health, according to a circular issued on Aug 29. The Food Safety Commission of the State Council will
World leaders have agreed to the ambitious goal of eradicating hunger by 2030. The scale of the problem is daunting. Every day 800 million people go to bed with empty stomachs and more than 8,000 children die needlessly from conditions linked to under-nutrition. And by the time we reach 2030,
The destruction of the world’s biodiversity was destroying humanity’s future, Carlo Petrini, the founder of the global Slow Food Movement, said in Johannesburg on Friday. Petrini, who is Special Ambassador for the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Zero Hunger for Europe campaign, is in South Africa until August 17 to
The Italian Senate aims to cut up to one million tonnes of wasted food a year by offering incentives to businesses who donate food to charities and starting new programmes to reduce food waste in schools, hospitals and other public canteens. The law earmarked €10 million to launch the initiative,
Sam Slover is co-founder of the Sage Project, a new online platform that reimagines food data for the Internet age. Slover’s vision isn’t a label; it’s an interactive web app. Sage deconstructs more than 20,000 fresh and packaged foods into interactive, personalized blurbs of information that make the basics of
Titled ‘Everybody Matters’, this is the first time that a Cultural Sustainability Strategy Framework has been devised for Galway and it spans from 2016 to 2025. The plan, which was passed by Galway city councillors last month, focuses on the pivotal role culture has played in Galway’s past and how
Artworks are being placed at different venues in the coastal town of Paphos, creating an “open air art museum” in the framework of the “Signs in Time and Space” project of the European Capital of Culture “Paphos 2017”. According to a relevant announcement, the first three works, out of a
In the war on food waste in America — a nation that spends more than $218 billion a year growing, processing, transporting and disposing of food that is never eaten — food banks are increasingly on the front line. According to Natural Resources Defense Council, up to 40 percent of
It’s easy enough to buy a handful of heirloom tomatoes at a local farmers market. But what if you need 400 or even 4,000 of them? What if you want to bring this kind of produce to large restaurants, grocery stores, or school and prison cafeterias? Scaling sustainable agriculture has
The fate of Thailand’s most beautiful marine environment came into a negative light last year from the entry fee collection scandal and a series of embarrassing news on environmental degradation. Coral reefs in the national park suffered from bleaching as seawater temperature rose to 34°C, forcing the DNP to close
The Kimchi is a spicy fermented cabbage salad with a 3,000 year-history which has become emblematic of South Korean gastronomy. So much so, the country even has a museum dedicated to kimchi, considered part of the “Korean DNA.” At a time when its citizens are increasingly opting to buy kimchi
The Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage yesterday launched five books revolving around the intangible cultural heritages in the country. Authority Intangible Cultural Heritages Registration Senior Expert Gezahagn Girma said that the Authority is doing its level best to preserve intangible cultural heritages through studying, registering and finally
The Slow Food international president and founder was in Kenya to firm up collaborations with local organizations and partners towards the movement’s first congress in the African region in 2017. He urged FAO to identify unique and unrecognized food products that deserve to be included in the international catalogue of
According to the article from SumOfUs.org, the proposed merger would violate a court order that was part of a U.S. Department of Justice consent decree and the primary U.S. anti-trust merger statute, the Clayton Act. The merger would eliminate direct competition between two of the largest players in the farm supply
The Region of South Aegean enters in the final straight to win the title of European Region of Gastronomy 2019 with the submission of its bid book to IGCAT on July 31, 2016, deadline for bidding. For the preparation of the bid book, which includes the entire web of actions
