Food

Increasing biodiversity is the new kid on the block for sustainability professionals. But solving it will require investing in the old guard that we keep overlooking. February 9, 2023 Biodiversity is poised to become this year’s biggest sustainability trend. Following the “Paris agreement for biodiversity” reached at COP15 in Montreal …

Agriculture is a major contributor to climate change. But it is also part of the solution. Smallholder farmers are key to reducing emissions as they tend not to use harmful fertilizers or machinery powered by fossil fuels. That’s why, at COP27, IFAD and the United States launched the Global Methane Pledge partnership to …

Price indices for vegetable oils, dairy, sugar drive January decline, while cereals, meat were largely stable, says UN body… Global food prices fell for the 10th consecutive month in January, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported on Friday. The FAO Food Price Index averaged 131.2 points in January, …

FAO’s vegetable oil price index hits new record high, indexes for dairy and meat prices mark their highest levels since 1990… Global food prices increased 14.3% year-on-year in 2022, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Friday. The FAO food price index rose 18 points from the previous …

Press release… FAO Food Price Index ends 2022 lower than a year earlier… 06/01/2023 Rome – The index of world food prices dipped for the ninth consecutive month in December 2022, declining by 1.9 percent from the previous month, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported today. …

Buse Berber Örçen, Senior Manager of Nanomik Biotechnology, which was established to produce an alternative to synthetic pesticides, said that the natural food preservatives they developed extend the shelf life of not only packaged foods, but also fruits and vegetables. Chemical substances called pesticides are used in many products in …

Press release… NEW BRIDGES ESTABLISHED IN FOOD EXPORT TO SAUDI ARABIA… AKİB BRINGS FOOD EXPORTERS TOGETHER WITH SAUDI ARABIA IMPORTERS… Mediterranean Exporters’ Associations (AKİB), which provided a total of 3.79 billion dollars support to Türkiye’s food exports in the 11 months of 2022, brought together important importers of Saudi Arabia …

Evaluating how 2022 was in terms of the Turkish food and beverage industry, Federation of Food and Drink Industry Associations of Türkiye (TGDF) President Demir Şarman listed his expectations for 2023. In the statement published on the TGDF website and YouTube channel, Şarman stated that they were making their plans …

Türkiye, which is one of the countries with the highest tea consumption per capita in the world, has also stepped up in coffee consumption in the last decade. The sector, which has become active with the increase in the number of third-generation coffee shops, continues to grow rapidly despite the increase in coffee prices …

The FPMA Tool is a web-based application for analyzing and disseminating food price data. The FAO (United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation) GIEWS’ global version – covering over 1 800 selected domestic food price series in over 90 countries and about 80 international commodity quotations – is updated continuously with the latest …