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Cow Burps, Food Waste To Take Spotlight At COP28 Agriculture Day

Climate advocacy groups are pressuring world governments gathered at this year’s United Nation’s COP28 climate conference in Dubai to...

Ukraine Grain Exports Down To 12.7m Metric Tonnes This Year

Ukraine's grain exports have fallen to around 12.7 million metric tonnes so far in the 2023/24 July-June marketing season, agriculture ministry data has sh...

PepsiCo Backs Eight New Projects As Part Of Agriculture Accelerator Programme

PepsiCo is backing eight innovation projects across nine countries as part of its global agriculture programme, the Positive Agriculture Outcomes (PAO) Acc...

Proposed Tariffs Jump To Cut Ukraine 2024 Sowing Areas, Traders Say

Plans by Ukraine's national railways to raise transport tariffs will lead to increased losses for farmers, a new reduction in planted areas and lower expor...

Australia Says Some Middle East Nations Extend Shelf-Life Limits For Meat Imports

Australia has said that a group of Middle Eastern countries had extended the maximum shelf life they will accept on imported chilled red meat, making it ea...

Global Minimum Tax Comes Home To France To Hit Farm Cooperatives

Though France was long a champion of the global minimum corporate tax, one cherished part of the French economy – giant farm cooperatives – may...

Iberian Olive Oil Producers Draw Private-Equity Interest As Prices Soar

Private-equity firms are eyeing olive farms in Spain and Portugal that use new agricultural techniques to boost production as they see big profits after pr...

Kyiv Acts On 'Compromise' Plan After Filing WTO Trade Complaint Over Food Ban

Ukraine has appealed to three neighbouring countries in the European Union to embark on 'constructive dialogue' to end a dispute over agricultural trade, a...