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Food Waste In The EU Amounted To 127 Kilograms Per Person In 2020

The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic accounted for food waste to the tune of 127 kilograms per person in the EU, the latest data from Eurostat has unvei...

EU Maize Yield Forecast Cut Again, Sowing Seen Favourable

The European Union's crop monitoring service MARS reduced further its forecast for this year's drought-affected EU maize harvest but pointed to mostly favo...

Philip Morris Sweetens Buyout Bid For Swedish Match

Marlboro maker Philip Morris International Inc has raised its buyout offer for Swedish Match AB in a last-ditch effort to get shareholder support for its $...

German Q3 2022 Cocoa Grind Down 4.7% On Year: BDSI

Germany's third-quarter 2022 cocoa grind fell 4.7% on the year to 103,532 tonnes, the German confectionery industry association BDSI said, follow...

Greek Inflation Rises To 12% y/y In September, Near Three-Decade High

Greece's annual consumer inflation accelerated to 12.0% in September from 11.4% in the previous month, remaining at its highest level in nearly three decad...

Droughts, Ukraine War Push Global Grain Stocks Toward Decade Low

The world is heading toward the tightest grain inventories in years despite the resumption of exports from Ukraine, as the shipments are too few and harves...

Russia's Invasion Of Ukraine 'A War On Food', Says EU Commissioner

Russia's invasion of Ukraine should be considered a "war on food", EU Farm Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski has said at a meeting in Prague, add...

EU Chocolate Industry Offers To Share Cocoa Farm Data With Ivory Coast, Ghana

The European cocoa and chocolate industry is offering to share data on cocoa farm locations with top producers Ivory Coast and Ghana in an effort to ramp u...