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How Africa Risks Reeling From A Health Crisis To A Food Crisis

In Nigeria's Benue state, the food basket of the country, Mercy Yialase sits in front of her idle rice mill. Demand is high across the nation, bu...

Summer Crop Sowing Lags In India On Slow Monsoon Progress

Planting of summer-sown crops in India such as soybean, cotton, rice and corn has been delayed by at least two weeks because of the slow progress...

Rewe And Penny To Sell Blemished Fruit And Vegetables

Germany’s Rewe group has announced that it will sell fruit and vegetables with colour and shape defects to help farmers affected by drought in t...

Dryness After Summer Heatwave Seen Cutting EU Rapeseed Sowings

Dry soil after record-breaking European summer heatwaves means farmers have been unable to plant all the rapeseed they wished, experts have said. The gr...

Crop Damage Mounts For EU Farmers After Torrid Summer

European farmers are counting the cost of a summer heatwave that has shrunk cereal harvests and shrivelled pastures, leaving some farms struggling to survi...

Drought Slashes EU Wheat, Export Surplus To Be Cut

Drought and a heatwave that scorched fields in northern Europe may cut the European Union’s wheat export surplus and the bloc will need to consume mo...

Brazil To Pass US As World's Largest Soy Producer In 2018

Brazil will surpass the United States as the largest producer of soybeans this year, taking over the top ranking for the first time in history, oilseeds cr...