Meeting the world's biofuel targets could reportedly divert a tenth of the world’s cereal output from food to fuels. Alternatively, if food-crop production were to remain stable, a huge amount of extra land would be needed for the fuels, meaning food prices could rise by anything from 15-40%.
An art student has invented new vegetable packaging which is 100% biodegradable, with the label text created through laser cutting to avoid the use of ink. What's more, the labels are embedded with seeds, so that your supermarket purchase can also result in a homegrown harvest.
A not-for-profit company is is turning companies’ waste coffee grounds into a fertiliser for gardeners.
A diet that relies heavily on meat production results in higher emissions than a typical vegetarian diet. Rearing livestock produces methane, which is 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as an agent of global warming.
Has eating fish, in a world of overfished stocks, become one of the moral dilemmas of our age?
The environmental impact of the lifecycle/supply chain of animals raised for food may have been vastly underestimated.
Some scientists are advising consumers to avoid the potential harmful impact of "endocrine disruptors" by eating from the bottom of the food chain.
Well-intentioned, even highly-effective solutions to the challenge of feeding the world can have serious, unintended environmental consequences.
