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  • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
    Special ReportSustainable Food and Agriculture
    Premium chocolate venture brings benefits to DRC’s cacao farmers

    An ambitious scheme aims to raise incomes and protect nature in a region blighted by violence

  • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
    LexSyngenta AG
    Syngenta IPO: soy long to China’s import dependence Premium content

    The stock could be a good hedge against trends intensifying food insecurity across world

  • Saturday, 18 March, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Ukrainian Black Sea grain export deal extended

    The agreement first launched in July has brought 25mn tonnes of grains and cooking oil to global markets

  • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
    Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
    Rich nations are not looking good in the palm-oil dispute

    Indonesia and Malaysia have a point in criticising tariffs that penalise sustainable producers

  • Monday, 13 March, 2023
    OutlookPatti Waldmeir
    Maple-pocalypse? Syrup looks like the latest victim of climate change

    Tree tappers in the Midwest are having to adapt to an earlier and shorter season

  • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
    Chinese soyabean subsidies force buyers to shell out more for peanuts

    Groundnut has become the country’s best-performing agricultural commodity as drought also hits production

  • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
    Fishing industry
    Record fish deaths prompt call for halt to expansion of Scottish salmon farming

    MSPs seek pause in aquaculture growth over environmental and welfare concerns as mortality doubles

  • Monday, 6 February, 2023
    ExplainerClimate Capital
    EU deforestation law triggers ire of its trading partners

    Indonesia and Malaysia lead criticism of legislation that bans imports of products linked to clearing of forests

  • Monday, 30 January, 2023
    Europe Express
    How the EU fought back against Moscow in the food crisis blame game Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: yet another election in seemingly ungovernable Bulgaria

  • Sunday, 29 January, 2023
    Food security
    ‘Flying with one engine’: why global food supplies are at risk despite falling crop prices

    Geopolitical uncertainty, volatile energy markets and climate change all pose a threat

  • Monday, 5 December, 2022
    Food Prices
    War and adverse weather set to keep food prices high

    Farmers have been unable to boost supply, leading to expectations that costs will remain above pre-pandemic levels

  • Tuesday, 22 November, 2022
    Argentina
    Third year of drought threatens Argentina’s grain exports

    Farmers despair of dry conditions and lack of government support

  • Tuesday, 22 November, 2022
    Food & Beverage
    Danish Crown to build £100mn UK plant as bacon demand rebounds

    Chief executive says investment comes despite ‘crazy’ post-Brexit red tape

  • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Ukraine Black Sea grain export deal extended

    Kyiv says agreement to be prolonged by 120 days despite Russian blockade

  • Monday, 14 November, 2022
    Tyson Foods Inc
    Tyson Foods launches board review over new CFO’s arrest

    John Randal Tyson charged with public intoxication and trespassing after he was found asleep in woman’s bed

  • Tuesday, 8 November, 2022
    Special ReportManaging Climate Change
    Amazon destruction woes overshadow Brazil’s farming advances

    Technology makes farming in developed areas more sustainable but rainforest destruction has been soaring

  • Monday, 7 November, 2022
    Ethanol
    Shell in biofuels bet with deal to buy 3bn litres of ethanol

    Energy group’s Brazilian joint venture Raízen to invest $1.5bn in five new plants

  • Wednesday, 2 November, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Russia agrees to rejoin Ukraine grain exports deal

    Turkey confirms resumption of pact that Putin says will focus on ensuring shipments to poorer countries

  • Monday, 31 October, 2022
    Ukraine ships grain despite collapse of Black Sea deal

    Russia’s decision to suspend agreement expected to hit poorer nations

  • Monday, 31 October, 2022
    Lex
    Wheat prices: Black Sea export threat is just one constraint among many Premium content

    Sensitivity of agricultural commodities prices to multiple granular factors is hardly news to traders

  • Wednesday, 26 October, 2022
    Food & Beverage
    Cadbury maker Mondelez to invest $600mn on sustainable cocoa sourcing

    Ivory Coast and Ghana boycott annual meeting amid rising tensions in chocolate industry

  • Sunday, 9 October, 2022
    The Big Read
    The future of farming: how global crises are reshaping agriculture

    Surging costs of inputs such as fertiliser and the growing threat of climate change are driving a return to pre-industrial methods

  • Thursday, 8 September, 2022
    The Big Read
    Can Japan feed itself?

    Without immediate agricultural reforms, the country is vulnerable to an intensifying global food crisis

  • Wednesday, 7 September, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Putin criticises grain deal with Ukraine

    Russian leader says terms of agreement reached in July caused global shortages

  • Friday, 26 August, 2022
    Special ReportAfrican Development
    Africa’s smallholders need to go beyond subsistence

    Raising yields will not only improve lives but could also be an important factor driving national development

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