The South African government has rejected the Agriculture Research Council’s (ARC) application to provide genetically modified potatoes to local farmers, saying it was concerned about its safety and economic effect, reports Business Day. “This is probably the most significant victory of my career,” said Mariam Mayet of the African Centre for Biosafety (ACB), which spearheaded [...]

Changing the ways in which food is produced, handled and disposed of across the globe – from farm to store and from fridge to landfill – can both feed the world’s rising population and help the environment, a new United Nations Environment Programme study has found.

If you’re interested in organic food, you’ll love these new recipe books: “Harvest. Recipes from an Organic Farm” by Christine Stevens and “LoveGreenFood. Cooking and Eating with Consciousness” by Larissa Green. Both are South Africans, so there’s the all important local element. But the authors have their own perspectives on organic food, which are equally inspiring.

Industrial agriculture and genetically modified crops may not be the only answer to Africa’s food woes, according to a new study.

Want to do something to help combat global warming? Eat less meat. This is the sage advice of the head of the world’s top scientific body on climate change, the IPCC. “Give up meat for one day [a week] initially, and decrease it from there,” Dr Rajendra Pachauri, was recently quoted in The Observer as [...]

Italian scientists have found that eating moderate amounts of dark chocolate regularly reduces the risk of cardio-vascular disease – by as much as a third in women and a quarter in men. But only dark chocolate has this effect. The milk in milk chocolate has been shown to interfere with the absorption of polyphenols, according [...]