Agriculture

Italian Agricultural Companies Set Up Food Alliance

A number of Italian agriculture and food companies have teamed up to defend, support and enhance Italian food products, with a new association Filiera Ital...

Strike Revives Automation Call In World's Top Tea Exporter

A strike by Kenyan tea pickers has rekindled large-scale tea growers’ plans to replace humans with plucking machines, threatening jobs in an eco...

Get Ready For GMO Fruit Salad As Modified Apples Head To Midwest

Genetically modified fruit salad just got real. Along with virus-resistant papayas, apples are joining the ranks of biotech fruit sold in US grocery stores...

Nigeria Plans $1 Billion Processing Zone To Boost Exports

Nigeria plans to establish a $1 billion crop-processing park with Turkish investors in the country’s north as part of efforts to improve value and bo...

Ahold Delhaize, Carrefour, Nestlé Aim To End Deforestation In Brazil

A group of 23 major international retailers and food companies have signed a letter supporting the 'Cerrado Manifesto', which aims to end deforestation fro...

Multinationals Increase Control Of Global Food Supply Chain

A small number multinational companies control the world’s food supply chain, from seeds to pesticides, and industrial transformation to commercial d...

There’s So Much Pain In Agriculture That Traders Are Leaving

The success of modern farmers has become the misery of traders at the world’s biggest agriculture merchants. Profits are shrinking as years of bum...

Global Fairtrade Sales Reach €7.8 Billion In 2016

Fairtrade sales across more than 130 countries totalled €7.88 billion in 2016, almost five times more than only a decade before. The market that gr...