The World Health Organization is urging governments around the world to strengthen health taxes on sugar and alcohol, to save lives and raise money. It says improving policy design and increasing taxe...

The World Health Organization is urging governments around the world to strengthen health taxes on sugar and alcohol, to save lives and raise money. It says improving policy design and increasing taxe...

<p>The launch of The Lancet’s new series on ultra-processed food is the largest study yet of the links between ultra-processed food and human health — and a call-to-arms. The series appeals to governm...

Malnutrition has reached a critical tipping point globally, says Unicef’s latest report on child nutrition, with ultra-processed foods driving rapidly rising rates of overweight and obesity among scho...

The less meat, more plants Planetary Health Diet could save 15 million lives a year, and dramatically slow down the global climate crisis, a new report says.

The less meat, more plants Planetary Health Diet could save 15 million lives a year, and dramatically slow down the global climate crisis, a new report says.

The verdict of the South African People’s Tribunal on Agrotoxins, triggered by the deaths of seven children in October last year, is due this month. The revelatory process has also shone the spotlight...

The third United Nations Food Systems Summit was dominated by ministerial-level discussions as it aimed to ‘unlock finance and investments to accelerate food systems transformation’.

The World Health Organization will begin, in July 2025, to develop guidelines on the consumption of ultra-processed foods, because a growing body of evidence suggests that a diet rich in highly proces...

The company’s approach to sustainable fishing and helping small-scale fishers thrive has netted it global recognition as a finalist in the 2025 Global Food System Challenge.

The company’s approach to sustainable fishing and helping small-scale fishers thrive has netted it global recognition as a finalist in the 2025 Global Food System Challenge.

The US leads 44% cuts in global nutrition funding, threatening global food and nutrition aid on which millions depend for survival.

The US leads 44% cuts in global nutrition funding, threatening global food and nutrition aid on which millions depend for survival.

While Brazil announces stringent restrictions on the inclusion of ultra-processed foods in school meals, South Africa’s education department, responsible for the National School Nutrition Programme (N...

Why can the world's most unequal country not figure out how to feed and protect its youngest citizens?

The evidence on the harmful effects of UPFs on human health has grown dramatically in recent years, and continues to grow, with emerging evidence going beyond the negative impacts of foods high in fat...

Despite a sense within the global food systems community that food’s presence at COP29 was in some ways substantial but lacked the pioneering spirit of food systems at COP28, some important initiative...