Global food prices rose slightly in December after staying flat the month before, but prices on average declined 1.6 percent in 2013 versus the previous year, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday.
Marks & Spencer helped Britain's FTSE 100 trade with small gains on Thursday as a positive performance at its foods business lifted the stock, bucking a string of gloomy Christmas updates in the retail sector.
Norway is working to end a limited Russian boycott of Norwegian fish exports that took effect Jan. 1, Fisheries Minister Elisabeth Aspaker said this week.
A new report shows fish supplies in the European Union have fallen to their lowest levels since 2006, with imports doing an about-face in 2012 from growth the previous year.
Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 115,000 metric tons of soybeans to China during the 2013/2014 marketing year.
Australian supermarket group Coles has announced 100 per cent of its Coles Brand fresh chicken will be RSPCA Approved, in a move it hopes will please its customers.
The Victorian Government has announced it will contribute to vegetable processor Kagome Australia’s $21 million expansion plans that will create 20 new jobs in northern Victoria.
The value of Irish food and drink exports in 2013 reached 10 billion euros (13.6 billion U.S. dollars) for the first time, up 9 percent from the previous year, according to official figures on Wednesday.
British grocer J Sainsbury eked out a tiny rise in underlying sales in its Christmas quarter, with its rate of growth slowing significantly in a tough overall market.
Japan's Ministry of Agriculture will not buy food quality wheat via a regular tender this week, but plans to conduct tenders over the following three weeks in January, an official at the bureau said on Wednesday.
Rises in grain and oilseed prices over the last two sessions went against the common idea that they are due a further fall in 2014, as world stocks rebuild further.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to buy up to $126.4 million in fresh and processed fruits and vegetables to support needy families — and the growers of those products by removing them from the supply chain to stabilize markets.
Soybean imports have increased drastically in recent years to make up for the shortfall in domestic production and meet the ever-growing demand of the domestic market.
Farm produce prices in 36 major Chinese cities rose slightly in the week ending Jan 5 compared with the previous week, according to Ministry of Commerce statistics on Tuesday.
