International quotations for sugar, vegetable oils and coarse grains increased from July, while worldwide cereal harvests remain on course to hit annual record...
According to a United Nations report, global food prices continue their upward trajectory for the second consecutive month in July, led by vegetable oils and dairy products...
Weakening demand and falling oil prices due to the global pandemic drive down international prices for major food commodities
The Food and Agriculture Organisation's latest food price index has reflected a decline in global food prices in February for the first time in four months - averaging at 180.5 points, down by 1.0% from January but still 8.1% higher than a year earlier...
The chocolate industry is worth more than $80bn a year. But some cocoa farmers in parts of West Africa are poorer now than they were in the 1970s or 1980s...
Michael E Odijie 11 Oct 2019
New expectations of transparency and authenticity in business means things like organisational purpose, brand stories, how your company does things, what it believes in and what it stands for, can all play a part in how your company sees itself and how it is seen by others...
Bizcommunity.com 2 Oct 2019
When you visit co-operatives and see what goes into producing your coffee, you gain a new appreciation for your morning cup...
Young entrepreneur Sipamandla Manqele is using food to inspire pride in indigenous African ingredients, while uplifting the small-scale farmers and communities involved in their cultivation...
Lauren Hartzenberg 17 Sep 2019
Since 2001, Bizcommunity anticipated the role of company culture as intellectual capital. Biz Press Offices are a "glass box" game changer, offering a window into 18 industry communities...
Bizcommunity.com 23 Jul 2019
African businesses are being challenged to wake up to the economic, social and environmental power of the Blue Economy...
Palm oil can be found in food and cosmetics everywhere: in fact, half of the world's population uses palm oil in food...
Jake Bicknell, Eleanor Slade and Matthew Struebig 19 Nov 2018
The AfDB is leading efforts to wake the 'sleeping giant' that is the African savannah and turn it into the cradle of the continent's green revolution...
A comprehensive B2B Recruitment Focus from December 2018 to February 2019 will ensure that Bizcommunity is the go-to destination for all the B2B news you'll need to plan your HR and recruitment strategies in 2019...
Bizcommunity.com 23 Oct 2018
The global sesame oil market reached 1,917k tonnes in 2016, expanding strongly over the last four years...
No more chocolate by 2050? Several articles have pointed recently that we are heading to a major chocolate crisis...
Jovana Stanisljevic 4 Sep 2018
The world food import bill has broadly tripled since 2000 to reach $1.43tn in 2017, while it has risen around fivefold for countries that are the most vulnerable to food shortages...
Soya bean production remains at the heart of the US-China trade war, hence prices were under pressure on Friday (6 July 2018) on the back of the introduction of tariffs. For context, China is the world's largest soya bean consumer and heavily reliant on imports.
Wandile Sihlobo 9 Jul 2018
The decline is driven primarily by lower benchmark price quotations for wheat, maize and vegetable oils including those made from soybeans...
Driven in part by an increase in conflicts and climate-induced disasters, the number of child labourers in agriculture worldwide has increased substantially from 98 million to 108 million since 2012 after more than a decade of continuous decline, according to the latest estimates...
The increased global consumption of sesame seeds is mainly due to the heightened demand for the product from the growing Asian and African populations...
