Indigenous foods such as cowpeas can improve people's nutrition and help them cope with the hunger brought about by the effects of Covid-19 on foreign food imports...
Vegetable oils drive FAO's Food Price Index higher in March while cereal quotations dip...
Easter is the biggest chocolate-buying time of the year. But who's really paying for the cost of that chocolate?
John Dumay and James Guthrie 6 Apr 2021
Aquaculture is a growing source of healthy protein for millions of people around the world, but there are big differences between farming fish on land and at sea.
Ben Belton, Dave Little and Wenbo Zhang 30 Mar 2021
RCL Foods and US plant-based food collective Livekindly Collective have established a local plant-based joint venture, Livekindly Collective Africa...
Large-scale droughts can have cascading impacts on food security. They can reduce yield, increase food prices, trigger changes in consumption and lead to unstable supply...
Friederike Otto and Jasper Verschuur 16 Mar 2021
Best-in-class innovators are presented with an opportunity to be future Nestlé suppliers...
According to a new study, biomass plantations for energy production need sustainable water management in order to avoid a substantial increase in water scarcity.
Indigenous beans could enhance food security in Cabo Verde which depends on food imports...
Anyse Sofia Fernandes Pereira Essoh 11 Mar 2021
A new annual event examines root and soil health's importance for food security, livelihoods and climate resilience and marks the launch of a community for root and soil health action...
The early estimate for 2021's wheat output is positive but 45 countries are in need of external assistance for food...
EU-banned pesticides could not only threaten wild bees where they eat, but where they sleep too...
Philip Donkersley 3 Mar 2021
Inmed Aquaponics Social Enterprise is among the first to receive capital through Mondelez International's new impact investing platform Sustainable Futures...
How geographical indications can provide economic and financial advantages to a product's place of origin...
Samuel Samiai Andrews 24 Feb 2021
Kenya is battling some of the worst locust plagues in decades, but startup The Bug Picture hopes to transform the pests into profits...
Baz Ratner 23 Feb 2021
PepsiCo and Beyond Meat have teamed up to form The PLANeT Partnership, a joint venture to develop, produce and market snack and beverage products made from plant-based protein...
Covid-19 is deepening global food insecurity, as the pandemic's economic impact adds to existing challenges...
Jules Siedenburg and John Paul Cauchi 26 Jan 2021
The total number of ASF outbreaks in progress rose from 7,865 to 7,927, with 4,228 outbreaks in Romania alone, and 1,336 in Vietnam. Of the new outbreaks, 74 were reported in Europe and 40 in Asia. The data is included in a biweekly survey released by the OIE...
PepsiCo plans to more than double its science-based climate goal, targeting a reduction of absolute greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain by more than 40% by 2030...
Researchers have unearthed a 'biological switch' which could boost crop yield worldwide...
Malcolm Bennett, Bipin Pandey and Sacha Mooney 18 Jan 2021
Despite their enormous value, mangroves are being removed at an alarming rate. A new tool aims to help communities reverse mangrove loss and tap into conservation programmes and funding.
Trevor Gareth Jones 15 Jan 2021
The new agreement marks a step towards competitive, gender-equitable, and sustainable commercial aquaculture and fisheries management in the Lake Victoria Basin, bordered by Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda...
Deforestation in Brazil recently reached a 12-year high, prompting France to cut soybean imports from the country...
Angela Guerrero and Malika Virah-Sawmy 4 Jan 2021
Despite intense efforts to control the pest throughout 2020, a new generation of Desert Locust swarms is threatening livelihoods and food security in the Horn of Africa and Yemen...
Our research shows we could feed the world sustainably - but conservation will have to become a lot more proactive...
David Williams and Michael Clark 22 Dec 2020
Between a global pandemic and politically turbulent climate, livestock industries have eagerly looked toward international policies and trade. Now that 2020 has nearly come to an end, specialists in policy, trade and economics can evaluate trends and offer a future outlook, writes Jaclyn Krymowski for Global Ag Media...
Jaclyn Krymowski 11 Dec 2020
Cultured meat made from animal cells without animal slaughter has been approved for sale for the first time...
Chris Bryant 7 Dec 2020
A promising new test for Johne's disease in dairy cattle has been developed at the Institute for Global Food Security and School of Biological Sciences at Queen's University Belfast...
Global food commodity prices rose to a nearly six-year high in November...
FAO's The State of Food and Agriculture 2020 takes a new look at water shortages and scarcity in the world...
The agtech market is comprised of services such as agricultural sensors for crop management, GPS field mapping, and supply chain management...
