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Explore evidence-based articles on Food System, including production systems, resilience, policy and wider food-system impacts. From Food Facts.

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Politics Of Food

Can the UK's new food strategy fix our broken relationship with food?

Discover how the UK's Food Strategy aims to tackle obesity, environmental harm, and food insecurity—can it truly reshape our food future?
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Food safety in peril: why cutting key committees puts millions at risk

Food Safety Committees have recently been disbanded by the White House. We explore what impact this will have on consumers.
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Food Systems

What do egg prices have to do with pandemics? Understanding the bird flu crisis

The current egg price crisis isn't just costing consumers more money, it's putting farmers at risk, as well as causing concern for another pandemic.
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Who’s killing Antarctica’s ecosystem? The dark side of krill harvesting

Krill are the foundation of the Antarctic food web. Industrial krill harvesting for omega-3 supplements and fish feed is putting the entire ecosystem…
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