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Governments Buy Billions of Meals a Year. Is That Food Policy?
Public procurement is a food policy lever most governments already hold and rarely use deliberately for health, local farmers or climate. This piece looks at Brazil, Copenhagen, US city programmes and India's public distribution system, and at the tender rules that decide what actually gets bought.
Desertification Is a Food Security Story
Land degradation affects up to 40 percent of the planet's land and drives yield loss, migration and conflict. This piece reads the outcomes of UNCCD COP17 in Ulaanbaatar as food policy, looks at where restoration pledges outrun finance, and argues that restoring land is the cheapest food security investment available.
Front-of-Pack Labels Are Becoming a Trade Fight
Warning labels, traffic lights and Nutri-Score are spreading, and food exporters now challenge them in trade bodies. This piece argues that the label is the visible edge of a larger fight over whose evidence and whose interests decide diets, with a look at India's court-driven debate.