Food

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is extending up to 20 million euroes loan in financing to Tat Gıda, one of Türkiye’s key food producers specialising in plant based food. Tat Gıda the market leader in branded tomato paste, ketchup and canned food. The new EBRD loan will finance Tat Gıda’s initiatives for …

Global spending on food imports is expected to reach a record $1.94 trillion in 2022, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization warned on Nov. 11, a 10 percent jump compared to the previous year due to rising prices. The new forecast would mark “an all-time high”, and is due to the depreciating values …

Exports of agricultural and processed food products in India increased by 25 pct in the first six months of the current fiscal year 2022-23 (April-September) compared to the same period in FY 2021-22. The total export of Agricultural and Processed Food Export Development Authority (APEDA) products increased to USD 13771 …

Türkiye’s agrifood exports proved to be buoyant despite growing risks of recession in the global economy and ongoing geopolitical developments, led by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Both countries are known as being important markets for the Turkish agricultural industry. Türkiye has been pursuing efforts to diversify markets in an effort …

In a bid to expand agricultural activities and boost economy, Türkiye rolled out a road map for urban agriculture, which will subsidy activities nearer to the cities… Turkish government prepared a three-year action plan for urban agriculture, getting the conventionally rural activity closer to the cities. The plan includes support …

FAO food price index virtually unchanged from September with rising cereal prices offsetting decreases in other staples… Global food price were broadly unchanged in October with rising cereal prices offsetting decreases in other staples, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Friday. The FAO food price index was virtually …

Türkiye’s foreign trade deficit soared by 268.1 percent in September compared to the same month of the previous year and reached 9 billion 595 million dollars and increased by 156.3 percent in the January-September period to 83 billion 97 million dollars. On the other hand, foreign trade surplus of food …

Press release… Twenty five scientists from around the world met at NUTS 22 organized by the International Nut and Dried Fruits Council (INC) to reveal the health benefits of dried fruits with all their sides. At the meeting chaired by Prof. Jordi Salas-Salvado, a lecturer at Universitat Rovira i Virgili, …

The very first Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty by 2030… Today, seven years after the goals were agreed and on the heels of a global pandemic, conflict and economic crises, a world without poverty seems out of reach. The World Bank estimates that, by the end of 2022, 685 million …

Charitable food aid is a sticking plaster on a gaping wound of systemic inequality in the UK and US, say signatories including Prof. Olivier de Schutter, a former UN special rapporteur on the right to food… Olivier de Schutter At a time when the UK’s likely break with Europe is widely …