The average European wastes their own weight in discarded food each year, and, worryingly for both our health and sustainability, more than half of the adult European population is overweight. Alongside this, agriculture is responsible for around 10 per cent of the total greenhouse gas emissions in the EU.
Dr. Marta Antonelli is Head of Research of the Barilla Foundation.
These are clear signs that the way we produce, eat, and dispose of our food is harming our health and the health of the environment. We cannot afford to continue ignoring them.
Our research shows that European food systems face a series of converging crises in health, environment, and society. From soil degradation to the ageing of farmers, unhealthy diets and the preventable burden of non-communicable diseases, the scale of these problems is massive, but not yet insurmountable.
Without intervention, millions more will be pushed to brink of starvation
The pandemic, coupled with the crises of conflict and climate change, could set back the fight against global poverty by a decade
Wealthier countries must play their part in taking action against the climate threat by urgently cutting their emissions. File picture: David Ake/AP
Fri, 30 Apr, 2021 - 06:30
Jim Clarken
Two important events took place last week concerning some of the most urgent crises facing humanity.
Hundreds of organisations across the world marked one year since the UN warned of a “famine of biblical proportions” due to deepening crises because of more frequent natural disasters, changing weather patterns, and conflict. Crises only made worse by the pandemic.
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Environmental Protest Is Being Criminalized Around the World, Say Experts More than 400 climate scientists sign letter saying activists are being targeted at pivotal time in fight against global heating.
April 29, 2021
Peaceful environmental protesters are being threatened, silenced and criminalised in countries around the world including the UK and the US, according to some of the world’s leading climate scientists and academics.
An Extinction Rebellion protester is arrested in Australia last year. Photo by Extinction Rebellion Tasmania.
More than 400 leading experts including 14 authors from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) say that non-violent civil disobedience from groups like the school strikers, Extinction Rebellion and the Sunrise Movement have transformed the debate around the climate crisis in recent years.
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