Supply Chain - Farmers

Nestlé, Cargill To Invest $15m For Promoting Conservation Practices In US Farms

Food companies Nestlé and Cargill have announced a combined investment of $15 million (€13.8 million) to scale the adoption of voluntary conser...

PepsiCo Invests $216m To Support Regenerative Agriculture Transformation

PepsiCo has announced a $216 million (€200 million) multi-year investment in long-term, strategic partnership agreements with three farmer-facing orga...

German Fertiliser Demand, Imports Drop As Prices Soar

Germany's farmers are ordering less fertiliser, put off by soaring costs after major suppliers of synthetic plant nutrients have curtailed production, the...

Ukraine Grain Storage Shortage Adds To Farmers' Woes

Ukraine has insufficient storage capacity even for its reduced 2022 grain harvest, the United Nations' World Food Programme said, with the country struggli...

Cutting Middlemen's Profit One Way To Boost Coffee Farmers' Gains, ICO Head Says

Increasing transparency and adjusting the size of gains for middlemen in coffee trading is one way to increase profits for coffee farmers, a major task for...

New Zealand Farmers Protest Over Environmental Policies

Farmers in New Zealand drove their tractors to the city on Friday in a protest demanding the government loosen its environmental policies an...

Ivory Coast Sells 2021/2022 Cocoa Contracts At 'Country Discount'

The world's top cocoa producer Ivory Coast had sold 950,000 tonnes of cocoa in contracts by the end of May for the 2021/2022 season at a country discount i...

Indian Farmers Agree To Meet Government Over Contentious Farm Laws

Leaders of Indian farmers' unions have agreed to meet ministers on Tuesday, possibly paving the way for a seventh round of talks with the government which...