With the ongoing coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic taking up most of the headlines, here are some of the stories that may have slipped down your news feed.

Katharine Rooney 20 Apr 2020

COVID-19

5 lessons for the future of water

Five simple things we can do to have a healthier relationship with water and our environment in the future.

Chiara Cecchini 15 Apr 2020

COVID-19

Coronavirus could worsen hunger in the developing world

Governments should act without delay to safeguard trade routes and supply chains.

Dongyu Qu 10 Apr 2020

COVID-19

Grow your own: Urban farming is flourishing during the coronavirus lockdowns

The coronavirus lockdowns are making city dwellers realise how crucial urban farms can be in feeding the urban population.

Rina Chandran · Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org 09 Apr 2020

COVID-19

Europe’s fresh food supply is being threatened by coronavirus

A combination of consumer hoarding, disruption to supply chains and the lack of migrant workers is threatening food production and supply.

Nigel Hunt and Duncan Miriri · Reuters 31 Mar 2020

Global Risks

4 global news stories that have been overshadowed by the coronavirus crisis

From swarming locusts to the warmest winter on record in Europe and Asia, here are some important stories you may have missed.

Rosamond Hutt 16 Mar 2020

Future of Food

This app lets you order leftovers to help fight food waste

Food waste is a growing problem that this tech start-up wants to help solve – by finding new customers for unwanted meals.

Sean Fleming 11 Mar 2020

Future of Food

Nature loss is eating away at our food supply and diversity

Nature and biodiversity loss are having a substantial impact on what we eat and how we feed the world's populations.

Akanksha Khatri and Alexia Semov 03 Mar 2020

COVID-19

Chinese business battles the coronavirus, bad for your brain and other top stories of the week

Also in this week's round-up: what is happening to Fukushima after nuclear meltdown and 5 charts that bust migration myths.

Adrian Monck 28 Feb 2020

Agriculture, Food and Beverage

Avocado: the 'green gold' causing environment havoc

Intensive avocado farming in Mexico is causing water shortages, biodiversity loss and even earthquakes – what are the solutions?

Manuel Ochoa Ayala 24 Feb 2020

Environment and Natural Resource Security

These wild seed hunters go on perilous 'Indiana Jones' adventures to secure the food of our future

Climate change poses a major threat to food supplies - so these seed hunters set off to try and collect the wild relatives of 28 globally important crops.

Peter Beech · Global Center on Adaptation 24 Feb 2020

The Ocean

Blockchain could police the fishing industry - here's how

Tuna is overfished, with stocks of some species at historic lows. But blockchain technology could help to crack down on illegal fishing and make the industry more sustainable.

Kate Whiting 12 Feb 2020

The Ocean

A healthy human future depends on healthy oceans. Here's why

The oceans can play a huge role in feeding the planet's growing population - but we must avoid the mistakes we have made in land-based agriculture if we are to do this sustainably.

Gunhild A Stordalen 12 Feb 2020

Africa

Senegal turns to eco-farming to protect food supply as climate changes

With climate change threatening food supply in Senegal, these farmers are turning to agroecology, in the form of planting trees on farms, diversifying crops and their rotation and using o...

Nellie Peyton and Thomson Reuters Foundation · Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org 05 Feb 2020

Future of Food

How consumers and farmers can transform food systems

This challenge of changing the way the world produces and consumes food is central to companies, governments, international institutions and civil society.

Tania Strauss and Maria Elena Varas · Forbes 31 Jan 2020

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