Food and farming
From Berlin and Paris, to Brussels and Bucharest, European farmers have driven their tractors to the streets in protest over recent weeks. A... Read More
Wasted food – if it were a country – would be the third largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the world, according to the UN’s Food and... Read More
Substituting half of animal products, such as pork, chicken, beef and milk, consumed globally with more sustainable alternatives could “almost full... Read More
Having strong ties to home is the most frequently given reason why people continue to stay in Himalayan villages facing the impacts of climate change... Read More
Almost 10,000 chickens died from heat stress en route to a slaughterhouse on the day UK temperatures hit 40C for the first time. Soaring tem... Read More
Climate change poses a risk to global food security. Weather and climate extremes, such as prolonged drought, heavy rainfall and heatwaves, can le... Read More
In the second of a new series explaining how key commodities are affected by and contribute to climate change, Carbon Brief looks at coffee – from ... Read More
Women working in agriculture “tend to do so under highly unfavourable conditions” – often in the face of “climate-induced weather shocks and ... Read More
Greenhouse gases resulting from rotted and otherwise wasted food accounts for around half of all global food system emissions, according to a new stu... Read More
Fertiliser emissions could be reduced to approximately one-fifth of current levels by 2050 without the need for developing new technologies, a new st... Read More
Olive trees in Lebanon – historically renowned for the high-quality olive oil they produce – are under threat from rising temperatures, new resea... Read More