Tag: FOOD SYSTEMS

US taxpayers funded a covert campaign to downplay the risks of pesticides and discredit environmentalists in Africa, Europe, and North America.

Angry farmers seized the political agenda across Europe but how many of their actual demands reached the negotiating table? We profile the power brokers who turned protests to their advantage

How an increasingly assertive meat industry helped derail a historic democratic demand to improve animal welfare standards in the EU

Powerful European farming lobby Copa-Cogeca is losing legitimacy even as it stymies the EU’s green agenda and hoovers up public funds

Hazardous and potential cancer-causing pesticides are being sprayed over farms supplying Nestlé and Coca-Cola

Farmers in the Global South bear the brunt of European public investments on dangerous pesticides outlawed by the EU

Analysis shows hedge funds were some of the biggest winners from the global food price spike that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Uncovering the billions of euros gambled on commodities by reckless funds

How Europe’s biggest meat companies avoid tax while raking in subsidies

Financial speculators make a killing on food prices in regulatory failure

How the meat industrial complex exerts undue influence on EU policy

Fear, racism and exploitation in publicly subsidised pork companies

Eco-disaster in EU's largest salt lagoon has culprit hiding in plain sight