CAPITALISM Whereas progress was made in reducing chronic hunger in the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s, hunger has been slowly...

 Scotland’s biggest health board, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s catering budget was slashed last year by £1million and documents released...

Yet another report on unnecessary food waste. This time from India.  40% of India’s fruits and vegetables and roughly 22% of wheat are l...

Although there are 50,000 edible plant species, we are only eating between 15 and 50 of them explained Sonny Ramaswamy, director of the Na...

Some attendees at a conference in London’s Chatham House to debate how to feed the planet’s growing population without degrading the earth’...

One hundred and ninety million – that’s more than the populations of Germany, France and Poland combined - is also the number of children ...

One in eight people — 870 million worldwide — will go to bed hungry tonight. One-third of all child deaths globally are caused by under-nut...

Nearly 14 percent of women in the world are considered obese, up from 7.9 percent in 1980. Among men, 10 percent are obese, up from 5 perce...

One third to one half of all food produced in the world goes to waste uneaten, according to data recently collected by the Natural Resources...

Along with caviar and truffles, foie gras is part of the top three Western gourmet items. However, the forced feeding of geese in order to f...

Studies about the predictors of obesity in the UK have shown that the poorest are most likely to be obese. For example, one University of Gl...

“We think we are heading towards malnutrition happening here in the UK.” - Save the Children’s Colette Marshall told the BBC . "Benefi...

The Sunday Times has found that home-grown products are being transported thousands of miles overseas for processing before being put on s...

High food costs have added £15 to a weekly supermarket shop for a family of four in the UK, new research suggests. Comparison website MySupe...

Britain is only 70% self-sufficient in cereal grains, down from 90% in the 1980s. Scotland is even worse, at only 40%. Most of that goes int...

From Ian Bell of the Sunday Herald Lots of food, lots of hunger: it’s a market thing. Last week the International Assessment of Agricultural...

Waste & Resources Action Programme reports that a third of the food we buy, amounting to 6.7 million tonnes, gets discarded from UK hou...

We have reported on the rise in food prices that many commentators blame on changes in supply and demand for grain but the Times reports t...

The Herald reports that food prices are set to rise around the globe after years of decline, with climate change making it harder for the wo...

Capitalism is a system that if it doesn't make the profit , it doesn't get made . Low prices led to sheep on hill farms being slaugh...