Food

Despite an expected record world cereal production in 2021, global cereal inventories are seen heading for a contraction in 2021/22, according to new forecasts in FAO’s Cereal Supply and Demand Brief, released. The forecast for world cereal output in 2021 is now pegged at 2 793 million tonnes, down by 6.7 …

Press release… Vladimir Rakhmanin, FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Europe and Central Asia, represented FAO at the 8th Ministerial Conference on Food Security and Agricultural Development on 25–27 October 2021 in Istanbul. Vladimir Rakhmanin FAO has reiterated its support for the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in the area …

Germany plans to lower emissions from land use by 25M tons by 2030… GLASGOW, Scotland Twenty-six nations on Saturday made new pledges to alter their agricultural policies to become more sustainable and less polluting, and to invest in research needed for sustainable agriculture and protecting food supplies against climate change. …

FAO food price index rises 3% from a month ago with gains in prices of vegetable oils, cereals… Rising for a third consecutive month, world food prices rose to a new all-time high in October, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Thursday. The FAO food price index …

More than 100 global leaders pledged late on Monday to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by the end of the decade, underpinned by $19 billion in public and private funds to invest in protecting and restoring forests. The joint statement at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow was backed …

From 31 October, world leaders, experts, and climate activists from across the world will gather in Glasgow, Scotland for COP26, the biggest climate conference since the Paris Accords. IFAD will be there, calling for greater investments in climate adaptation – and we will be giving the floor to rural small-scale producers …

More air in that bag of chips? Fewer flakes in your cereal box? You’re not imagining it: “Shrinkflation,” a tactic used by industry to hide price increases, is back in vogue in the United States. Facing the post-pandemic inflationary surge, partly fueled by bottlenecks in global supply and trouble finding …

Produced in Kahramanmaraş! Exported to Europe due to the intense demand of expatriates (Turkish workers)… “Maraş tarhana” is exported to European countries in the form of packaged crisp. Tarhana producer Samet Çiftarslan said, “The export that we started when expatriates demanded this product in Turkish markets in the countries they …