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Dóra Drexler will head IFOAM Organics Europe in future. The director of the Hungarian Research Institute for Organic Agriculture (ÖMKi), which was established in collaboration with FiBL, was elected President of the European organic farming umbrella organisation by the General Assembly. She will thus represent the European organic movement at …

ISTANBUL… July 2026… Hediye Güral Gür, a member of the HİB Board of Directors and Chairwoman of the Tourism Travel and Gastronomy Services Committee, stated that gastronomy has become not only an element supporting tourism for Türkiye, but also a high value-added service export area. In a statement released by …

July 2026… The European Commission published the EU Livestock Strategy on July 7, 2026. The strategy views the EU livestock sector as a strategic sector not only in terms of environmental obligations, but also in terms of food security, rural development, competitiveness, strategic autonomy and resilience to crises. While recent …

New digital tool combines soil, climate and landscape data to improve yields, strengthen resilience and support smarter farming… Press release… July 2026… Rome – Farmers, extension workers and governments now have a powerful new tool to help identify the crops best suited to specific parcels of land, enabling more efficient use …

Türkiye’s agricultural output exceeded the 80 billion dollars mark for the first time last year, Agriculture and Forestry Minister Ibrahim Yumaklı announced on Saturday. Sharing the milestone on social media, Yumaklı described it as a “historic record in agriculture” and said that “Türkiye is at the top of the global …

1 July, 2026… Erhan Özmen, Chairman of the Board at Özmen Flour (Özmen Un) and a leading figure in the flour industry, outlined the new framework for competition in the milling sector during his speech at the IDMA Global Grain & Milling Forum. Özmen stated that, under intense competition and …

Press release… New early-season forecasts point to another strong global cereal harvest amid growing El Niño risks… 03/07/2026 Rome – FAO’s benchmark measure of world food commodity prices edged down in June, as lower quotations for cereals, sugar and dairy products outweighed higher quotations for vegetable oils and meat, according to new …

June 2026… The biggest lesson from recent food security shocks may not be fragility. It may be resilience.During the “Food Security in the Age of Crisis” session, I had the privilege of asking Dr. Joe Glauber, Emeritus Research Fellow at International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and former Chief Economist …

June, 2026… Professor Dr Mustafa Bayram, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Gaziantep University and Chair of the Association for Grain and Pulses Processing Technologies, Storage and Analysis Systems (TABADER) Board of Directors, stated in his address at the IDMA Global Grain & Milling Forum that the new competitive …

In Chile, a community transforms fog into a source of water to cope with water scarcity and drought… Press release… June 2026… There are days when the sky does not bring rain. Instead, a thick fog, called camanchaca, advances silently from the ocean and covers hills and ravines. The trees, plants and …