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Nestlé Reports Progress In Combatting Deforestation In Ghana, Ivory Coast

Nestlé has reported progress in its efforts to end deforestation in the cocoa supply chain and introduce regenerative supply chains for fo...

Organic Farming Must Grow To Reach Green Goals, EU Says

The European Commission said that it plans to expand financial and policy support to help achieve a goal for a quarter of Europe's farmland to be organic b...

Morrisons Pledges Net-Zero Carbon Emissons On Farms By 2030

Morrisons has pledged to be the first supermarket to be completely supplied by net-zero carbon emission British farms by 2030. Over the next nine years,...

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...

India Passes Farm Bills Amid Protest From Opposition Parties

India's parliament has passed new bills the government says will make it easier for farmers to sell their produce directly to big buyers, despite growing p...

Hail, High Water And Lockdown: Europe's Fruit Growers Prepare For Tough Harvest

Europe's been eating more fruit under lockdown, by all accounts. The problem is, it could struggle to find people to pick it. The region's growers are p...

US Farmers Scramble For Help As COVID-19 Scuttles Immigrant Workforce

The coronavirus has delayed the arrival of seasonal immigrants who normally help harvest U.S. wheat, leaving farmers to depend on high school students, sch...

Ivory Coast Cocoa Farmers Fear Low Output After Below-Average Rainfall

Below-average rainfall in Ivory Coast last week has raised fears of a cocoa supply shortage in the coming months and a weak end to the April-to-September m...