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Dec 15, 2021 (AFP)

Brazil is the world's biggest producer and exporter of beef, but it lost its top client when China imposed the embargo in September following the detection of t...

Brazil's unsung craft cheese winning fans in high places

Dec 15, 2021 (AFP)

The best bet for food-lovers chasing her award-winning handmade cheese is to stop and ask for directions. Cassia's "Garrafao" is one of 57 Brazilian cheeses tha...

Europe's big meat and dairy firms accused of climate 'greenwash'

Dec 12, 2021 (AFP)

The non-profit Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) said many major companies had no climate plans or targets and even among those that do it raise...

Finding the recipe for a larger, greener global rice bowl

Dec 10, 2021 (SPX)

But increasing global rice production is not a simple prospect. "Global rice production is challenged now due to the negative environmental impact, water scarci...

Poor soil, water putting food security at risk: FAO

Dec 09, 2021 (AFP)

It's latest report on the state of the world's limited land and water resources for food production found that many are already stressed, yet face even more int...

China's November consumer inflation rises on pork, vegetable prices

Dec 09, 2021 (AFP)

The consumer price index (CPI), a key gauge of retail inflation, came in at 2.3 percent on-year according to the National Bureau of Statistics -- slightly below...

Global warming not responsible for Madagascar famine: study

Dec 01, 2021 (AFP)

The southern Indian Ocean island off Africa has been hit by its worst drought in four decades. The UN's World Food Programme said last month that more than 1.3 ...

Croatia's truffle hunters seek habitat protection amid climate change

Nov 24, 2021 (AFP)

The delicate microclimate in the picturesque Istria peninsula's forests has long been famed for producing some of the finest white truffles, which this year fet...

Countries must brace for future food 'shocks': FAO

Nov 23, 2021 (AFP)

"The Covid-19 pandemic has left the fragilities of national agri-food systems widely exposed," the Food and Agriculture Organization said in an annual report. "...

Turn a global warming liability into a profitable food security solution

Nov 23, 2021 (SPX)

The study, published Nov. 22 in Nature Sustainability, finds production costs involving methane captured from certain sources in the U.S. are lower than the mar...

EU parliament greenlights farm subsidy plan

Nov 23, 2021 (AFP)

The sums involved are huge. The common agricultural policy, or CAP, runs to 387 billion euros ($472 billion) over seven years -- a third of the EU's total multi...

Spanish countryside rises up against 'pig factories'

Nov 18, 2021 (AFP)

The 58-year-old local winemaker has for months been battling the planned opening of a large pig farm that will breed almost 40,000 piglets a year from 2,200 sow...

French minister says 'optimistic' of ending Russia champagne row

Nov 17, 2021 (AFP)

Home of the original champagne, France jealously guards its right to use the term and has been in talks with Moscow about a law signed by President Vladimir Put...

Milk, meat and might: in Somalia, 'the camel is king'

Nov 17, 2021 (AFP)

Turning to one of his beloved camels, Ali Abdi Elmi squeezed fresh milk into a wooden urn, and took a deep drink. "I have five children, and we all depend on ca...

China's millennial 'new farmers' opt to live off the land

Nov 17, 2021 (AFP)

So the 33-year-old chucked it all in to lay down literal roots as part of a nascent back-to-the-farm movement in which young Chinese professionals are quitting ...

Afghanistan's food crisis a 'legacy' of previous government: Taliban

Nov 15, 2021 (AFP)

The UN has warned that around 22 million Afghans or half the country will face an "acute" food shortage in the winter months due to the combined effects of drou...

North African climate change threatens farming, political stability

Nov 15, 2021 (AFP)

"I can't do anything with my land because of the lack of water," he said. Fileli is just one of many farmers who have been left high and dry by increasingly lon...

Climate change rocks agricultural commodity markets

Nov 12, 2021 (AFP)

According to analysts, volatile weather conditions and temperatures have adversely impacted crop growth, harvest and supply in key exporters. "The weather has c...

African Sahelian farmers diversify crops to adapt to climate change

Nov 08, 2021 (SPX)

The study documents Sereer farmers' observations of local environmental changes in the Fatick region of Senegal, and analyses how the farmers use crop diversity...

Organic farmers find fertile ground in North Africa

Nov 07, 2021 (AFP)

Shili runs Domaine Elixir Bio, a 94-hectare (230-acre) farm near Tunis that produces organic-certified vegetable, fruit and cereal crops in a way she said "resp...