In this edition of FODDER, our main focus is on the US election. It’s about how food and corporate power has become a central part of Kamala Harris’ agenda through her commitment to a ban on price gouging. TABLE speaks to Professor Zephyr Teachout, a renowned US legal scholar specializing in price gouging and monopolies. She explains what price gouging is, what exactly Kamala Harris is planning and why there’s a growing appetite to take on the power of food corporations. 

This methodology, developed by WWF, aims to provide a framework for retailers to measure and report their animal versus plant-based sales, progressively enhancing their data collection and reporting capabilities to support a transition to more sustainable and healthy diets.

With growing amounts of finance channeled into the purchase of overseas food and farming assets, China has become a frontrunner in the global land rush. This book critically examines the driving forces, discourses, and conflicts surrounding Chinese investments in overseas farmland, with a specific focus on Australia. 

Environmentalist Vandana Shiva argues food is the currency of life, indivisible from Earth and its natural systems. She claims to unpack the false promises of technology and reveal the dangers of UPFs and take a stand on a future based on the natural regeneration of biodiversity. 

This report by The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) identifies opportunities to reduce species loss by improving practices in corn, beans and coffee. It warns that conservation offers biodiversity gains but can also lead to agricultural intensification which drives biodiversity loss, a phenomenon known as the Jevons paradox. 

This report by a coalition of NGOs including the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, provides guidance and motivation to integrate agroecology and food systems into national biodiversity plans, being negotiated at COP16. 

This report by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition finds that 62% of national biodiversity policies show no intentional connections between biodiversity and nutrition, despite deep interconnections and synergies between biodiversity, nutrition and food security. 

This report from Greenpeace finds that the meat and dairy industry would add 0.32 degrees of additional global warming from 2015 to 2050, with methane responsible for three quarters of this. Scientists predict that each 0.3°C warming we prevent by the end of the century could reduce exposure to extreme heat for 410 million people. 

The World Resources Institute finds that one-quarter of the world’s crops are grown in areas where the water supply is highly stressed, highly unreliable or both. Mounting risks like climate change and increased competition for water are threatening water supplies and, in turn, food security.