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EU agri-food agreement ‘difficult to reach’: negotiator
The BBC reports that the UK's Brexit Minister has played down the prospect of reaching a new agri-food agreement with...
Antoine de Saint-Affrique new Danone CEO
The Financial Times says Danone has chosen Antoine de Saint-Affrique, who has run Swiss cocoa and chocolate manufacturer Barry Callebaut...
Crypto is closing ZeLoop on plastic pollution for Nestlé
What can PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Unilever do right now about plastic pollution? Plug their marketing campaigns into an app ensuring their...
Tenth of Britain’s restaurants lost during pandemic
The BBC reports that some favourite haunts will no longer be there when hospitality restrictions are further lifted from tomorrow:...
Ivory Coast, Ghana push to boost cocoa payments
Ivory Coast and Ghana asked cocoa and chocolate companies last week to pay more in premiums to support farmers' wages,...
Meet the food workers who can’t afford groceries
The Guardian reports that about half of the 2.5 million farm hands in the US are undocumented immigrants, according to...
Wildfarmed to support National Trust conservation efforts
The National Trust has joined forces with Andy Cato, cutting edge rewilding farmer, to help meets its conservation targets. The...
Starbucks must face claims over ‘ethically sourced’ cocoa label
Bloomberg Law reports that Starbucks Corp. must face claims alleging it deceptively advertises hot chocolate as “ethically sourced” despite the...
Lab-grown chicken start-up slashes production costs
The Financial Times reports that Israeli start-up Future Meat has claimed a huge leap towards commercial viability for its lab-grown...
UK supermarkets threaten Brazil boycott
Sky News reports that UK retailers have renewed their threat to stop buying products from Brazil as the South American...
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