agriculture

Perfect storm for supply chains as extreme weather hits Europe

The UK’s Met Office has called it “remarkable.” Swathes of Europe went weeks without rain and its northernmost extremities reached…

Europe takes the lead in 2017 Food Sustainability Index

The Economist Intelligence Unit and the Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition have once again teamed up to deliver the Food…

Raising crops: vertical farming in Japan

The Spread factory sits beside the highway on a lonely stretch of land outside Kameoka, a former farming community west of Kyoto.…

Advice in abundance for local food procurers in webinar

Farm to institution food acquisition provided the overarching theme for the two main sections of the webinar, held on 31 January,…

Food resolutions for 2014

As we enter 2014, there are still nearly one billion people suffering from hunger. Simultaneously, 65% of the world's population live in countries where…