Global lawmakers battle over junk food warning labels
Thomson Reuters Foundation Are taxes and bans on advertising unhealthy foods or education more effective in tackling an emerging global obesity crisis? Some 200 lawmakers from 80 countries were sharply divided over how to stem spiralling healthcare costs caused by poor diets at the first global parliamentary summit against hunger and malnutrition, which ended on […]
Quick facts – 10 things to know about world hunger
Thomson Reuters Foundation Global hunger rose in 2017 for a third consecutive year, fuelled by conflict and climate change, the United Nations revealed in a report published on Tuesday. Obesity levels also increased. Here are some facts and figures from the report: Drought is one of the key causes of hunger in the world. PICTURE: […]
REBOOTING FOOD: NEW WAYS TO FEED THE FUTURE, PART I
In part one of two part special report from Thomson Reuters Foundation, THIN LEI WIN looks at how new technologies, science and just alternative ways of thinking are helping to shape the food of the future…
Focused on ending hunger, Africa neglects rising obesity
Thomson Reuters Foundation Focused for decades on ending hunger, African countries have largely failed to address a rising obesity epidemic that could soon become the greater public health crisis, experts said as new data was released. A quarter of the world’s 41 million overweight children under five live in Africa, a figure that has nearly […]