(AFP) – Millions of boxes of oranges are spoiling in containers stranded at European ports as South Africa and the European Union lock horns in a dispute over import rules, citrus growers have said.
The Dutch farmers have characterised the first round of negotiations with Prime Minister Mark Rutte as disappointing, with some declaring “stronger” actions will follow the meeting.
Far-left extremists in the Netherlands have threatened to attack farms in the country belonging to “right-wing nationalists”.
A 12-year-old boy named Brayden Nadeau from Maine was born to farm, and started a produce stand two years ago.
Tory leadership hopefuls Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have set out questionable visions of how they would govern Britain, with tax-hiking Sunak pledging seminal tax cuts – someday – and “right-wing” Truss vowing to import even more migrant workers.
The head of a major fast food chain in Ireland has expressed concern that the country may face food shortages this coming winter, telling the general public that they should stock up.
In protest against the governments plans to shut down vast swaths of farmlands, Dutch farmers dumped manure on highways across the country.
Ireland’s green agenda-loving government is set to impose an emissions cut of around 28 per cent on Irish farmers, a report has claimed.
Dutch political commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek told Breitbart News that her homeland is being used as a “pilot” for the Great Reset agenda.
The EU is now in the “contingency planning” stages regarding a potential coming migrant surge, a Commissioner for the bloc has confirmed.
The war has trapped about 22 million tons of grain inside Ukraine, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky, a growing crisis for the country known as the “breadbasket of Europe” for its exports of wheat, corn and sunflower oil.
MAASLAND, Netherlands (AP) – Bales of hay lie burning along Dutch highways. Supermarket shelves stand empty because distribution centres are blocked by farmers. Then, at dusk, a police officer pulls his pistol and shoots at a tractor.
Farmers protesting the EU’s green agenda in the Netherlands have turned down a meeting with their country’s government over poor terms.
A plan proposed by U.S. President Joe Biden to see grain exported from Ukraine has had holes poked in it by Poland.
Ukrainian farmers are reportedly preparing for a “hell” harvest season, with physical and financial dangers looking to prevent them from reaping, transporting and selling their crops.
The UK government looks set to force the likes of schools and hospitals to source up to half their food from their local area.
The burps and farts of cattle and sheep are set to be taxed by the leftist government of New Zealand to supposedly save the environment.
Thanks to global supply problems caused by the likes of the war in Ukraine, experts have claimed that a “massively dependent” Britain is only one catastrophe away from food shortages.
Russia will lift its blockade of the Black Sea and allow grain to be exported again from Ukraine once Western nations lift sanctions, the country’s Deputy Foreign Minister has said.
Davos attendees have been discussing the global food crisis, with the head of the World Food Programme warning of ‘famines around the world’.
An EU plan to export Ukrainian grain using the country’s train networks to alleviate the global food crisis is “highly unlikely” to work, the UK’s Ministry of Defence has said.
Using gene editing to make more resilient crops could help in the fight against food insecurity, experts have told British ministers.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been accused of worsening the global food crisis by using “hunger as a weapon” at a G7 meeting on Wednesday.
A shortage of food due to the Ukraine crisis poses an “apocalyptic” threat to UK consumers, the UK’s central bank head has warned.
Farmers in the east of Germany are warning of widespread crop failures due to a lack of rainfall in the region.
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) – Canadian poultry farmers are facing fear and stress as a highly pathogenic strain of H5N1 avian influenza is currently circulating in both wild and domestic flocks across North America.
After weeks of claims of deliberate sabotage of Ukraine’s food infrastructure, Kyiv has published images claiming a Russian attack on grain.
Grain production in Ukraine is likely to see around a 20 per cent fall, prompting inflation and global food security concerns from the UK Ministry of Defence.
Food shortages are on the cards for Britain due to the spiking cost of farming thanks in part to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine.
The president of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Gotabaya Rajapaksa admitted in remarks on Monday that his controversial decision to ban the use of chemical fertilizers was a “mistake,” contributing to the nation’s worst economic crisis in its history.
The IMF has become the most recent global body to release a warning regarding forthcoming global food shortages, saying that vulnerable nations are at risk of civil unrest amid supply issues.
Swedish farmers may be forced to reduce their harvests by as much as half due to a shortage of manure and fertilizers caused by the conflict in Ukraine and associated sanctions war.
The Environment Agency is taking legal action against a farmer who removed trees and bushes on a bank and dredged a river bed with a digger.
The world is heading into a global food crisis thanks to the war in Ukraine, according to the head of one major Agri organisation.
A school in the UK has decided to ban all meat options from its lunch menu over fears surrounding climate change.
Ostensibly environmental regulations restricting water diversion and use have “killed” California farming, Victor Davis Hanson said.
A pig farm in northern Germany began culling all of its 4,000 animals Wednesday after a case of African swine fever was confirmed there.
The British government may seek to impose carbon taxes on the food industry which could see the price of meat and dairy climb even further in a bid to tackle supposedly man-made climate change.
The UK plans to allow researchers to use gene-editing to develop crops that increase yields, reduce pesticides and cut greenhouse gas.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Thursday urged officials of North Korea’s communist ruling party to “fully mobilize” the country’s labor force before this autumn’s harvest to help alleviate an ongoing “food problem,” the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Friday.
