Bogota’s supermarkets become safe spaces for women to report abuse
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation Women in Colombia’s capital city facing domestic abuse can seek help in hundreds of supermarkets and pharmacies as part of a new campaign launched on Wednesday to tackle the rise in gender violence under the coronavirus lockdown. The program involves more than 630 supermarkets from three different chains and the Farmatodo […]
British food banks battle shortages as coronavirus causes panic buying
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Food banks across Britain are struggling to cope with demand from vulnerable people as consumers worried by the coronavirus outbreak empty supermarket shelves, charities said last week. Many said they were already struggling to feed regular users and were preparing for a rise in demand as people without secure jobs were […]
UK food giants from Tesco to Nestle aim to halve waste by 2030
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation Major supermarkets, food manufacturers and restaurants on Tuesday backed a drive to halve Britain’s food waste by 2030 and save the nation at least £10 billion a year. Tesco, Nestle and Coca-Cola were among at least 70 leading companies to sign up to a government-backed plan to cut the amount of food […]
NEW! A SUSTAINABLE LIFE: HERE’S HOW MANY TIMES YOU ACTUALLY NEED TO REUSE YOUR SHOPPING BAGS
As bans on single-use plastic bags become more commonplace, TREVOR THORNTON, lecturer in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences at Australia’s Deakin University, looks, in an article first published on The Conversation, at how many times shoppers need to use reusable bags to compensate for their larger environmental impact…
WOW!: SOUP, BEER AND SOAP FROM FOOD WASTE? DUTCH SHOPPERS SAY YES
THIN LEI WIN, of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on an innovative way ot selling imperfect food in The Netherlands…