The UN, World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organisation and European Commission have recently all cited tackling our unsustainable western diets and wastage in the food system as central to achieving food security. This new focus marks a welcome departure from the "produce more of the same" paradigm that has dominated the worldwide food security debate until now.

We are now rightly concentrating on fixing the problems with our current food system that, if not addressed, will prevent us from feeding the world's population well regardless of how much food we produce. The new food security mood music goes like this: less waste, less meat, more food.

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The Guardian – Latin America has blazed the way in the adoption of laws that promote and protect the right to food, a UN expert has said.

In his final report to the general assembly, Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, singled out the continent for remarkable progress over the past decade.

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Woefully insufficient amounts going on social protection, gender equality and climate change, according to Oxfam report

Countries are barely funding social protection, gender equality and climate change programmes, crucial for meeting sustainable development goals after 2015, a report by Oxfam and Development Finance International (DFI) said on Thursday.

Putting Progress at Risk, the first report to track what developing countries are spending on the millennium development goals (MDGs), found most are spending much less than they promised, or has been estimated is needed by international organisations, on all
the targets...

Poor countries endanger development by spending less than promised

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