Published: May 09, 2014

Egypt's financial crisis is hindering payments for food commodities as banks and traders say some of the funding problems which first surfaced early last year are re-emerging.

Published: May 09, 2014

Global food prices fell in April, led by a sharp drop in dairy prices due to reduced buying by China and Russia and an extended season in New Zealand that boosted stocks, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday.

Published: May 09, 2014

GrubHub Inc's quarterly profit more than tripled as more people used the online food-delivery service to order takeout meals.

Published: May 08, 2014

Biomin has received the first-ever EFSA positive opinion for a purified enzyme capable of biotransforming fumonisins.

Published: May 08, 2014

Pork shortages will be a key concern in many countries in the coming months.

Published: May 08, 2014

Steady is how the European slaughter pig market presents itself this week.

Published: May 08, 2014

The New Zealand government announced Wednesday it will begin investigating next week how potentially contaminated dairy products were exported abroad in last year's botulism false alarm and global product recall.

Published: May 08, 2014

The Chinese government will purchase more frozen pork from the market to stabilize prices and reduce farmers' losses, the country's top economic planning agency said on Wednesday.

Published: May 07, 2014

The internationalization of the agri-food industry is "strategic" for the Italian economy, local officials said here on Monday at the opening of Cibus, the international fair on food made in Italy.

Published: May 07, 2014

War-torn Syria is struggling to buy food commodities in the quantities it needs, despite repeatedly issuing tenders for hundreds of thousands of tonnes of sugar, rice and wheat, trade sources say.

Published: May 06, 2014

The Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) have posted a 33 percent increase in Afghan exports during the year 2013.

Published: May 06, 2014

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service has announced that Michael T. Scuse will lead a mission to promote U.S. agricultural exports in northeast China May 5-13.

Published: May 06, 2014

COFCO Tunhe Co Ltd says lockup period for 517.06 million shares to end, shares to start trading on May 9

Published: May 05, 2014

Manufacturers of food and beverages may be the solution to low intake of fruit and vegetables, according to UK-based global market research organisation Leatherhead Food Research.

Published: May 05, 2014

Harsh U.S. weather and geopolitical turmoil in Ukraine have humbled a third global grain trader as Bunge Ltd reported a surprise loss for the first quarter on Thursday, saying it had bet wrongly on a drop in wheat prices.

Published: May 05, 2014

France will ban imports of live pigs, pork-based byproducts and pig sperm from the United States, Canada, Mexico and Japan to protect against a virus that has killed millions of piglets in North America and Asia, a farm ministry official said on Friday.

Published: May 05, 2014

As evening falls over Sierra Leone's Banana Island archipelago, bats stream from their beachside roosts to circle in their thousands over the jungle village of Dublin.

Published: May 04, 2014

With the first volumes of greenhouse vegetables already on sale due to the recent high temperatures, industry experts are noting the poor pricing attached to this year’s production.

Published: May 04, 2014

Quebec to immediately cease enforcement and repeal or amend restrictions that prohibit the production, sale and marketing of vegetable oil food products.

Published: Apr 29, 2014

India’s leading online commodity exchange, NCDEX has launched world’s only pearl millet (known as bajra in India) contract from 1 April 2014.