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What happens when India bans exports of a food staple that is essential to the diets of billions around the world? On 20 July, India banned exports of non-basmati white rice in…

Haarlem in The Netherlands is set to ban most meat ads from public spaces because of the food’s climate impact. In what is thought to be the first such move…

Women on the minimum wage in Ghana have to spend one in every seven dollars they earn on sanitary pads, research by the BBC has found. The BBC surveyed nine…

A trial bank hub, run by the Post Office and shared by five mainstream banks, opened in Essex last year Another 13 locations have been earmarked for shared banking hubs…

UK food prices are rising at a slower rate than other countries, according to government minister Mel Stride. But is he right? In an interview discussing food price inflation with…

New evidence points to Scotland’s strong appeal to foreign investors, ahead of any part of the UK apart from London. Scotland’s trade and investment agency says it can take credit…