Today is World Health Day and the theme for 2015 is Food Safety. Now, this may take you back to begrudgingly putting your hair up during food tech classes to avoid the stray-hair-in-your-pasta-drama, but food safety is actually about a LOT more than a strand of additional hair accidentally landing in your lunch! How important can it be you, we hear you ask? Well, we’re going to tell you! 1. Did you know that more than 200 diseases are spread through food? Millions of people...
In 2005, Nelson Mandela gave his now famous speech at the Make Poverty History rally in London’s Trafalgar Square. Addressing a staggering crowd of 22,000 people, Nelson Mandela, along with Bob Geldof, outlined the three demands that underpinned the Make Poverty History campaign, carving the way for the eradication of extreme poverty to be realized. He said: “The steps that are needed from the developed nations are clear. The first is ensuring trade justice. I have said before that trade justice...
As many of us celebrate winter holidays and festivals in the next few weeks, we’ll probably be cooking traditional meals to mark the occasion. Wherever we live in the world, our agriculture, food,  family celebrations and our culture are what binds us to our countries. Within the African continent, there’s a huge diversity of food culture, often drawn from the kinds of fruits, vegetables and cereals that grow well in the region. We asked our Africa team, who are based...