Jessica Brown
From Paris to Pyongyang, shoppers the world over responded to the Covid-19 pandemic by stripping supermarket shelves. Nissin Foods, the Japanese company whose founder invented the now ubiquitous instant noodles, has seen its share price
Jessica Brown
As the world went into lockdown, new renewable energy projects around the world ground to a halt. The transition to clean energy, a policy priority for many governments just 12 months ago, now faces an
Furqan Sayeed
Until now, African countries have largely defied the gloomiest forecasts about the impact the COVID-19 pandemic. The continent, which many epidemiologists predicted would be incredibly vulnerable to the disease, has instead seen some of the
Furqan Sayeed
There seems something Biblical about this year’s twin crises of COVID-19 pandemic and locust plagues in much of the world. Are the other two Horsemen of the Apocalypse already saddling up? Maybe – but in
Carolyn Whelan
“We needed a radically different approach,” says Kathryn Garcia, New York City’s Sanitation Commissioner and Food Czar, recalling how she and colleagues set about feeding the city’s vulnerable over the pandemic, adding that traditional soup
Furqan Sayeed
In developing countries, food insecurity following the outbreak of disease has often been more fatal than the disease itself. Pandemics such as Ebola, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and MERS all had negative impacts on food
Andrew Cave
“Beyond Petroleum” is a slogan Bernard Looney, the newish BP chief executive and a ‘lifer’ at the oil major, will never be allowed to forget. Nineteen years ago, when the company was under the command
Rachel Dobbs
Singapore has an impressive history of succeeding against the odds, emerging as a global economic and financial powerhouse out of the most unpromising conditions when it secured its independence after the Second World War. Becoming
Furqan Sayeed
In Pakistan, as the economy has struggled to cope with a Covid-19 lockdown, more than 63,000 jobs have been created since March for unemployed laborers known as “jungle workers” to plant saplings for 500 rupees
Carolyn Whelan
“Never before has so much of an EU budget been allocated to combating climate change,” declared Svenja Schulze, Germany’s Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety on July 21st, after a five-day inter-governmental summit
