Published: Aug 18, 2015

Global food giants and international NGOs have drafted a framework to prevent land grabs just as hedge funds, companies and plantation owners race to acquire new territory.

Published: Aug 18, 2015

Certified organic products — those that are in compliance with specific standards during their production, storage, processing, and handling — are often more expensive than their non-organic counterparts.

Published: Aug 18, 2015

Russian police say they have busted an international ring involved in producing contraband cheese worth about 2 billion rubles ($30 million), arresting six people.

Published: Aug 18, 2015

The salt mines of K+S in Germany have been producing high quality salt for one and a half centuries, so the opening of the K+S Health Care and Nutrition division just four years ago may seem a late development.

Published: Aug 18, 2015

Due to the expansion in healthy snack products like bars and clusters, the demand for more natural, clean label inclusions has grown. Parker Products, a source of inclusions and other ingredients for almost 90 years, has created a variety of inclusions de

Published: Aug 18, 2015

Prices of vegetables have shot-up in the Sunyani Municipality due to erratic rainfall pattern in the Brong-Ahafo Region, a market survey conducted by the Ghana News Agency (GNA) has revealed.

Published: Aug 18, 2015

The market for spinach from California's Central Coast improved this month as demand has remained strong. While volumes have been fairly steady, some production has been dogged by quality issues stemming from mildew.

Published: Aug 18, 2015

Any day now, David Murdock, the 92-year-old owner of Dole Food Co, will find out whether his decision to go to trial to defend the terms of his 2013 buyout of the company was heroic or foolish.

Published: Aug 18, 2015

Approximately 70% population of the country belongs to the rural areas. To uplift the present economical status of those rural areas, the inclusive concept of Mega Food Park has been proposed to establish direct linkages from the farm to processing...

Published: Aug 18, 2015

Bengaluru, the IT capital of India, dwells within a state which surpasses all other states in its GDP growth. A whopping 49% of the state’s income accounts to sectors like agriculture and its allied activities while Karnataka is a major producer of many a

Published: Aug 17, 2015

Fast food may be falling out of favor in many countries around the world but companies are making healthy profits and boldly innovating in the unlikely market of Australia.

Published: Aug 17, 2015

TOKYO, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Japan's gross domestic product (GDP) shrank an annualized 1.6 percent in the second quarter of 2015, contracting for the first time in three quarters, government data showed Monday.

Published: Aug 17, 2015

Russia has extended its food imports ban to Albania, Montenegro, Liechtenstein and Iceland in response to Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis.

Published: Aug 17, 2015

Flowers Foods, Inc. announced a definitive agreement to acquire Dave's Killer Bread, the best-selling organic bread in the U.S., from its existing shareholders, including members of the Dahl family and Goode Partners, for approximately $275 million in cas

Published: Aug 17, 2015

Today, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) will invest an additional $5 million to help Ohio, Michigan and Indiana improve water quality in the western Lake Erie basin.

Published: Aug 17, 2015

What’s the best plain slice of pizza in New York? It’s a polarizing question with no definitive answer, and one may bring even Pacifists to blows. Few things are more serious than a solid slice, after all, especially after midnight.

Published: Aug 17, 2015

Economic growth in Romania, which stood at 4.1% in the first 3 months of 2015, was the biggest in the European Union. An economist with the World Bank in Romania, Catalin Pauna has recently said that the country’s robust and balanced evolution has been ba

Published: Aug 17, 2015

EU citizens waste almost 50m tonnes of food every year and it could be avoided, according to research by the European Commission.

Published: Aug 17, 2015

Washington state’s apple growers have been looking forward to a great upcoming season, fueled by a bountiful crop and by China’s opening its market to all varieties of U.S. apples.

Published: Aug 17, 2015

The Australian chestnut season has finished, and Fumina Farms owner and grower Chris Dikkenberg says volumes were similar to last year. “We probably did, as an industry, around 1,100 to 1,200 tonnes, and three weeks ago we sent our last commercial lot to