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    • Tuesday, 2 August, 2022
      InterviewWar in Ukraine
      Ukraine warns grain exports will take ‘months’ to reach prewar levels

      Minister says only a handful of ships will depart from Odesa region in next two weeks

    • Wednesday, 27 July, 2022
      Australia
      Australia’s ‘avo-lanche’ forces farmers to look to Asia and UK for sales

      Avocado is now being used as a cheaper substitute in salads as a glut of the fruit sends prices tumbling

    • Tuesday, 19 July, 2022
      InterviewWar in Ukraine
      Ukraine warns of big cuts to wheat harvest if Russian blockade continues

      Black Sea export route key to farmers’ ‘financial cycle’ and easing of global food crisis, says agriculture minister

    • Monday, 18 July, 2022
      Sayed Azam-Ali
      We must resurrect ‘forgotten’ crops in the fight against a food crisis

      The global agrifood system is wasteful and damaging but there are steps we can take to tackle it

    • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
      EU trade
      EU and New Zealand agree free trade deal

      Accord is the first Brussels has struck in three years after resistance among members to reducing barriers  

    • Monday, 27 June, 2022
      Rana Foroohar
      The high cost of producing cheap food

      Intensive farming in America’s midwest has consequences for our health and the planet with falling returns to farmers

    • Tuesday, 7 June, 2022
      News in-depthEgypt
      Egypt looks to local farmers as grain market tightens

      Global turmoil pushes world’s largest wheat importer to boost domestic harvest

    • Sunday, 3 April, 2022
      EU agriculture
      Ukraine war piles pressure on Europe’s farmers

      Agriculture sector hit by soaring fertiliser, feed and fuel costs and problems accessing financing

    • Saturday, 2 April, 2022
      LexFood Prices
      Fuel prices: the crippling cost of cultivating cucumbers in a cold climate Premium content

      Rising energy prices for UK greenhouse growers mean imports will inevitably increase

    • Wednesday, 23 March, 2022
      Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
      Global food crisis is the prisoners’ dilemma of trade

      It is in everyone’s interest to keep exports flowing, but no one wants to run short by being the only country that does

    • Sunday, 6 March, 2022
      Food security
      Food crisis looms as Ukrainian wheat shipments grind to halt

      Prices soar as Black Sea ports at virtual standstill amid Russian assault

    • Friday, 4 March, 2022
      Agricultural commodities
      Wheat prices hit record highs as war halts exports from Ukraine and Russia

      ‘No end in sight to the upswing’ as supply shortage concerns grow

    • Friday, 18 February, 2022
      US trade
      US lifts Mexican avocado trade ban after threat to inspector

      Countries reach agreement to boost security following a week-long halt to inspections of the popular fruit

    • Thursday, 11 November, 2021
      EU trade
      France slows EU trade deals with New Zealand and Chile until after election

      Paris says agreements must take account of agricultural sensitivities

    • Monday, 27 September, 2021
      The Commodities NoteAndrey Sizov
      State intervention threatens Russia’s position as a wheat superpower

      Excessive export taxes will hit the farmers’ ability to invest in production and stifle output

    • Wednesday, 18 August, 2021
      News in-depthClimate Capital
      Weather shocks in Brazil ripple across global commodities markets

      Products from coffee to oranges affected by drought and chilly temperatures

    • Sunday, 25 July, 2021
      The Big Read
      What growing avocados in Sicily tells us about climate change and the future of food

      Changing temperatures across the globe are shifting the seasons and the crops that farmers can grow

    • Tuesday, 8 June, 2021
      News in-depthBrexit
      UK livestock farmers fear Australia trade deal will threaten way of life

      Tariff-free agreement could set precedent for accords with big exporters such as US and Brazil

    • Monday, 7 June, 2021
      News in-depth
      China’s import appetite raises prospects in US farm belt

      Record shipments and high crop prices boost incomes as subsidies wane

    • Wednesday, 19 May, 2021
      UK trade
      Johnson rejects claims Australia deal will ruin Scottish farming

      UK PM sides with free traders in cabinet as he tries to agree final negotiating position

    • Wednesday, 12 May, 2021
      Special ReportInvesting in Canada
      Ag-tech plants seeds of hope as Canada farm outlook brightens

      Battered by the US-China trade war and Covid-19, farmers are more positive about 2021

    • Thursday, 22 October, 2020
      Special Report
      African Farming & the World

      Nigeria harnesses scale to boost smallholder productivity; the battle to commercialise South Africa’s Eastern Cape; camel milk’s superfood credentials; how tackling soil depletion can raise yields; Egyptian orange farmers capitalise on export boom; what Nigeria can learn from Brazilian techniques

    • Thursday, 22 October, 2020
      Special ReportAfrican Farming & the World
      Egyptian orange farmers juice gains from export boom

      Cheap pound has enabled the country to capitalise on a global rise in demand for the citrus fruit

    • Sunday, 11 October, 2020
      Tesco PLC
      Tesco drops avocado supplier after allegations of rights abuse

      UK’s largest supermarket suspends supply from Kenyan agricultural company Kakuzi

    • Tuesday, 6 October, 2020
      Trade Secrets
      UK cheesemongers could find mould on tasty trade treaty with Japan Premium content

      Deal allows British farmers to use up quotas unfilled by the EU — but will there be any left?

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