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Hunger and obesity are on the rise in Latin America, particularly in Venezuela, Argentina and Bolivia. In 2017, 39.3 million people were undernourished and 3.6 million were obese, the United Nations said on Wednesday. 
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Brazil's record soy exports to China could grow further, an Agriculture Ministry official told Reuters on Wednesday, as the Asian nation's trade war with the United States boosts its demand for South American beans.
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It's a different technology than controversial "genetically modified" foods — more like faster breeding that promises to boost nutrition, spur crop growth, and make farm animals hardier and fruits and vegetables last longer
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African cities, according to a World Bank report, are home to 472-million people — almost half of Africa’s total population. This number is expected to double by 2050.
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African swine fever has spread rapidly to more than half of China's provinces despite measures to contain it, the government said, warning that a situation previously described as under control had become "very serious."
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A major new report from Dutch bank ING has suggested that while the implications of Brexit will be profound for the whole of Europe, the UK’s exit from the European Union will be especially felt in emerging Europe. The automotive and textile industries, as well as agriculture, are likely to suffer the most.
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Richard Nixon's 1973 soybean embargo and Jimmy Carter's 1980 Soviet grain ban suggest permanent changes ahead.
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) is teetering. The Trump Administration has attacked it repeatedly, blocked moves to restock its judicial panels, and looked skeptically on its multilateral decision-making process. For an organization that embodied the results of decades of trade liberalization and emerged triumphantly in the mid-1990s, this has been a remarkable fall from grace. In this brief, we ask why the WTO is worth saving, consider the complaints lodged against it, and suggest what would be required for a serious rescue attempt.
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Scientists are unanimous that deploying innovation and technology into the country’s food industry will not only avert the predicted food crisis but boost productivity and sufficiency.
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A new study has found that outdated, colonial-era water permit systems across Africa are unintentionally criminalising millions of small farmers who can't obtain permits. This undermines efforts to boost farming production and meet economic growth goals.
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The country’s agricultural sector lacks comparative advantage to feed China’s main food imports like wheat, corn, beef and soybeans.
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Robots are coming for people’s jobs in Europe, and the countries in the ex-communist east are particularly vulnerable.
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Our previous post focused on a study indicating climate change can lead to a net decline in African agricultural productivity – at least for five major food staples, with maize being the most important. The study also showed that it is not precipitation changes, but heat stress that is the main concern.
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Hector Padilla Gutierrez, the former president of the Mexican Association of Secretaries of Agricultural Development, spoke about the importance of diversifying Mexico's agricultural food trade with the countries of the Asian continent, where Mexico exports 5 percent of its primary products and from which it buys 3 percent of their products.
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Fruits and vegetables are the most wasted produce globally among oilseeds, pulses, meat and seafood, says the Food and Agricultural Organization in a new policy brief on food security
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In 2018, the agriculture and food industry still serves for the livelihood of a majority of the global populations. Even though the global agriculture industry has been witnessing various transformations in terms of shrinking farmlands and depletion of finite natural resources, the global food demand has grown irrespectively. This extensive growth has led the large food companies to establish numerous food production factories across the world.
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Fresh indications have shown that food crisis is imminent in Nigeria if the country fails to deploy innovation and technology into its food industry to boost productivity and sufficiency.
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The European Commission’s Scientific Advice Mechanism (SAM) issued a statement on Tuesday (13 November) saying the directive on genetically modified organisms should be revised in order to adjust to the current knowledge, especially when it comes to gene editing.
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Global Coconut Milk Market size is anticipated to witness a healthy growth owing to its increasing application in food & beverage and agriculture industry.Rising consumer health consciousness and improved distribution network is expected to propel product demand. It contains lauric acid that can easily be absorbed by the body for energy. Farmers use it in cultivation to speedup crop growth. These factors are expected to propel coconut milk market growth during the forecast period.
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African ingredients and flavours are gaining momentum across the food, drink, health and beauty sectors. Much of the food and drink focus has been on the flavours of Northern Africa, but more recently there has been a groundswell of interest in the largely unexplored cuisine of Western African countries such as Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal
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The trade war triggered by U.S. President Donald Trump has made Brazil even more dependent on its number one trading partner, China. The Asian giant now accounts for over one-quarter of all Brazilian exports and almost half of the country’s commodity exports since January. The United States, in second place, receives only 12 percent of total exports from Brazil.
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The Middle East and Latin America might seem like an odd pair for bilateral commercial deals - at literal opposite ends of the globe from each other, in fact. But there are many links between the Arabian Gulf and Latin America that, combined with strides in economic development in both regions, make a case for a much stronger trade partnership.
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Recurrent climate shocks have left many people in Southern Africa food insecure. The risk of an El Niño event later this year, combined with price increases and poor infrastructure, may make an already precarious situation even worse.
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From meat substitutes to clean living, impact investing is emerging as a source of healthy financial returns as well as a means of making lasting contributions to societal and environmental well-being. Here are five impact funds you don't want to miss out on.
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The project is a hedge against potential U.S. food sanctions. Vladimir Putin is breathing new life into the chicken that kept Russians fed in the dying days of communism. The project is a hedge against potential U.S. food sanctions and a challenge to the two western breeders that supply all of the nation’s commercial strains.
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