Sales of plant-based meat may be suffering due to an ideological divide over the environment

Advertising content based on the environment turned off the conservative consumers involved, say researchers.

Jennifer Yule, The Conversation

· Sep 04, 2023 · 07:30 pm

The world’s food production systems are broken. What will it take to fix them?

Current systems, which rely on industrial agriculture and fossil fuel extraction, are contributing to many of the very crises that make them vulnerable.

Babafemi Oyewole

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Estrella Penunia

· May 21, 2023 · 11:30 pm

In Odisha, seed banks are bringing back traditional and organic methods of farming

The indigenous seeds have proven to be climate resilient and cheaper, leading more farmers to opt for them in times of increasing extreme weather events.

Tazeen Qureshy, IndiaSpend.com

· Nov 27, 2022 · 07:30 pm

India’s dietary guidelines have 4.5 times lower carbon footprint than United States’

A country’s dietary guidelines can influence consumers’ choices and carbon footprints.

Sahana Ghosh

· Jun 18, 2021 · 07:30 pm

World Vegan Day: Why we celebrate this day, history and significance

World Vegan Day was first celebrated in the year 1994.

Scroll Staff

· Nov 01, 2019 · 09:10 am

The World Peace Diet: Could eating only plant-based foods help reverse global warming?

Nothing more fully and powerfully influences the daily lives of everyone than our food, food choices and food systems.

Kathleen Kevany, The Conversation

· Aug 30, 2018 · 11:30 pm

Is climate change making our dal and roti less nutritious?

The food we eat is changing.

Maya Kilpadi

· Oct 07, 2017 · 03:30 pm

Your chocolate bar may be fuelling deforestation in West Africa

Large area of forest reserves in Ivory Coast have been converted to illegal cocoa plantations to meet demand, a campaign group says.

Anna Pujol-Mazzini

· Sep 20, 2017 · 09:30 pm

As millets become the new ‘it’ food, the Dongria Kondh community is looking for long-lost varieties

Once thought a poor man’s grain, millets have become a favourite health food.

Manipadma Jena

· Jun 30, 2017 · 08:30 pm

First spoons, now chopsticks: Edible cutlery is being developed for a zero-waste future

The challenge is to make the cutlery durable and yet tasty.

Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri

· Apr 15, 2017 · 03:30 pm

'Why I don't advocate vegetarianism': Indian environmentalist Sunita Narain explains her position

Even though vegetarian diets are considered better for the environment, the country does not consume too much meat and many farmers depend on livestock rearing.

Sunita Narain

· Mar 28, 2017 · 06:30 pm

We’ve calculated the environmental cost of a loaf of bread. Here’s what you can do about it

The main source of global warming isn't baking or transport, but fertiliser used to grow wheat.

Peter Horton, The Conversation

· Mar 03, 2017 · 10:30 pm