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China’s food import rules to change
China’s new rules on food imports will take effect on January 1st as planned, according to Bloomberg. This is even...
Are chocolate giants on the verge of solving child slavery?
Campaigners have dismissed new reports by chocolate companies that child labour is being addressed in their supply chains. Despite a...
Meet the entrepreneurs under 30 transforming food
The 2022 Forbes Food & Drink 30 Under 30 list list includes 27-year-old owner Edouard Massih. Also Amber Tamm Canty, a...
Poorest face food crisis amid fertiliser shortage
Svein Tore Holsether, chief executive of Yara International, has told the BBC that higher gas prices are pushing up fertiliser...
Business can help in the region with the world’s worst emergency: Afghanistan
Responding to the world’s biggest emergency, meet Kate Newton, Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East & North Africa, at...
Future UK laws to respect the distress and pain of lobsters, crabs and octopuses
Rules around the humane killing of lobsters, crabs and octopuses are expected to change, as the UK government acknowledges them...
Unilever tea bidders had rights concerns
The Financial Times reports that two of the three final bidders for Unilever’s tea division balked at taking on the...
Inside food’s new Silicon Valley
That Financial Times reports that Copenhagen is now considered the epicentre of food. And a new movement is brewing where...
Food and Drink Federation urges take up of eco labels
The UK’s Food & Drink Federation has said manufacturers can take advantage of consumer and supplier demand for sustainability through...
Food prices will stay high, hurting poor countries
The Economist says that Covid-19 had a counter-intuitive effect on food prices. In early 2020, when much of the world...
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