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The global tea industry has been registering tremendous growth. The overall increase in domestic consumption has been driven by demographic growth, faster urbanization and rising incomes and standard of living in the emerging and developing economies. Persistence Market Research (PMR) expects the global market to expand at 5 percent at …

Farmers in South-America have been growing quinoa for thousands of years. In the Netherlands the crop is cultivated on a commercial scale only since April 2014. Since it is such a new crop, Dutch Quinoa Group could set up a local value chain from scratch. Therefore, it is sustainable in …

Greetings from Mexico City! This week, Food Tank is celebrating initiatives redefining food and agriculture around the world. While new challenges from population density, urbanization, conflict, and climate change transform food systems, we’re scanning the globe for stories of hope and perseverance. In the Middle East, the region once rich …

World food prices slide marginally in July… The overall drop reflects decline in cereals, dairy and sugar prices… A worker putting packaged cheese on the shelf of the cold room in an Armenian cheese factory. 1 August 2019, Rome – Global food commodity prices saw a slight decline in July, …

Creadev, a global long-term investment firm wholly funded by the Mulliez family, has announced a secondary investment of USD 5 million in Twiga Foods, a Kenyan-based technology based B2B platform that aggregates retail demand and efficiently provides low cost access to better quality food. As part of this secondary transaction, …

Rome- Renewing political will, a key ingredient to end hunger and malnutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean… FAO Director General Graziano da Silva stresses importance of investing in the poor as the way to achieve sustainable development. graziano da silva ile ilgili görsel sonucu The idea that to end …

Research showed that Turkey was situated on the 10th of waste crisis list… PRNet, the media monitoring and reporting agency, reviewed the research report on the impact of countries’ waste crisis. According to PRNet’s Maplecroft data and media reflections, the countries that caused the waste crisis in the world have …

In our interconnected, globalized world, trade can provide consumers a wide variety of safe and quality food products while giving farmers and food producers a stable and growing source of income. For this reason, promotion of those food products with competitive advantages is high on government agendas everywhere. To aid …

5 ways to feed 10 billion people in 2050… Greg Foot – BBC Future… The world’s population continues to grow. According to some estimates, the global population will reach 10 billion by 2050. It will take record-breaking food to feed all these people. What kind of changes are needed in …

The FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) averaged 173 points in June 2019, down marginally (0.3 percent) from May and very close to its level in June 2018. Lower prices of dairy products and vegetable oils more than offset increases in the prices of cereals, sugar and meat; ending almost five …