Health Canada is contemplating to remove fruit juices from the category of healthy dietary choices under Canada's Food Guide as juices increasingly come under the scanner for promoting obesity.
Serbian juice producer Nectar and its Slovenian subsidiary, Fructal, will get €30 million in loan financing from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Farmers in Central America have generated clean energy from coffee wastewater, as part of Energy from Coffee Wastewater project undertaken by UTZ Certified.
India’s government is seeking help from an unlikely partner to improve the diets of millions of its hungriest children: PepsiCo Inc., the world’s largest snack-maker.
Thailand's largest green tea maker Ichitan Group said on Tuesday it would set up a joint venture with Indonesia's PT Atri Pasifix to build a new plant in Indonesia with an authorised capital of 1.18 billion baht ($37 million).
A group of global biotech crop companies won a court victory on Monday that blocks enactment of a law passed last year limiting the planting of biotech crops and use of pesticides on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
Years of low coffee prices followed by the worst drought in decades in Brazil have pushed even the smallest family farmers to buy modern machinery rather than rely on increasingly scarce and expensive labor.
Keurig Green Mountain Inc. shares surged the most in three months after announcing a deal to bring Kraft Foods Group Inc. coffee brands such as Maxwell House, Yuban and McCafe to its home brewing system.
