Food Security

Police say they recovered 29 meth tablets disguised as pineapple sweets that were mistakenly handed out to the public in charity packs.

Agriculture is becoming part of the national political conversation for the first time in decades, Brexit leader Nigel Farage said.

Farmers disrupted traffic around Europe’s second biggest port of Antwerp and two other Belgian harbors Thursday.

Scores of tractors were parked outside Greece’s parliament Tuesday, horns blaring, as thousands of farmers make their anger heard.

Farmers prevented Germany’s vice chancellor from disembarking a ferry, hours after govt changed tax plans that infuriated the agri sector.

The German government is giving up a proposal to scrap a car tax exemption for farming vehicles and will stagger agricultural tax increases.

A Russian drone and missile strike near Odesa damaged port infrastructure, a grain silo and an abandoned hotel and injured one person.

Russian drones pounded grain storage facilities and ports along the Danube River that Ukraine has increasingly relied on.

The fact farmers haven’t been able to tend their land in warzones for a year and a half blamed for the slow progress of the counteroffensive.

Invasion causing food crisis that drives developing world migrants to Europe, so give Kyiv more weapons to end the conflict, they say.

There is a “realistic possibility” Russia will deploy a task force to intercept civilian ships as part of a blockade, UK intelligence says. 

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Thursday declared a “state of emergency on food security” due to swiftly rising prices. Nigeria is the largest economy on the African continent, although it’s per capita income is about half of the number two economy, Egypt.

Ukraine, once the ‘breadbasket’ of Europe, will need at least twenty years for its farming sector to recover after the war with Russia.

Fields across southern Ukraine could be turned into “deserts” due to massive flooding caused by the destruction of Kakhovka dam, the country’s agricultural ministry has warned.

Warning of a new threat to global food security, the U.N. said Russia is limiting the number of ships allowed to pick up Ukrainian grain.

Russia agreed to extend deal that has allowed Ukraine to ship grain through the Black Sea to parts of the world struggling with hunger.

A glut of Ukrainian grain is depressing commodity prices. Some have banned imports to protect their own farmers, but the EU is outraged.

LONDON (AP) – The amount of grain leaving Ukraine has dropped even as a U.N.-brokered deal works to keep food flowing to developing nations, with inspections of ships falling to half what they were four months ago and a backlog of vessels growing as Russia’s invasion nears the one-year mark.

Placing a moratorium on foreign land purchases and Chinese companies’ efforts to buy up U.S. farmland, “should be bipartisan,” she said.

Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) is proposing a foreign land purchase moratorium to protect U.S. food security and stabilize housing prices.

Farmers are to be offered even more money by the government to adopt green agenda policies, the British government’s food department has announced.

Cofigeo, a group which owns several food companies in France, has shut down four of its eight factories over energy costs. 

Swedish grocers are sounding the alarm over a recent surge in food thefts across the country, particularly meat products. 

A federation of French supermarket chains has warned of significant waste of fresh products in the event of possible power cuts in the country this winter, with those in rural areas much more likely to face outages.

The G20 member nations published an epic 10,000-word statement on Wednesday at the conclusion of their annual summit stating that “most” members “strongly condemned” Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and opposing sanctions on food and fertilizer products.

Food prices in Germany have spiked by just under 40 per cent over last year, with potatoes spiking by as much as 70 per cent in 12 months.

Elected representatives in the Netherlands have grilled the country’s government over exactly how many farms will be forced to close to satisfy the EU’s Great Reset green agenda.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has expressed dismay that Brexit has temporarily delayed efforts to normalise the consumption of bugs to achieve “net zero”.

(AFP) – Kyiv and Moscow accused each other of striking Europe’s largest nuclear site on Friday, causing a reactor stoppage as three grain ships departed Ukraine under a deal to avert food shortages.

(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.

Annual inflation in Turkey soared to nearly 80%, official data shows, with food, housing and energy prices hitting consumers hard.

The first ship set off under an UN-Turkey deal that will release Ukrainian crops to foreign markets and ease a growing hunger crisis.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian defence ministry officials on Sunday insisted that an airstrike on the port of Odesa — less than a day after Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement on resuming grain shipments from there — had hit only military targets.

(AFP) – Russian missiles struck Ukraine’s key Black Sea port of Odessa Saturday, officials said, in an attack Kyiv described as a “spit in the face” of a deal signed by the warring neighbours a day earlier to resume grain exports blocked by the conflict.

Russia and Ukraine signed separate agreements Friday with Turkey and the U.N. clearing the way for exporting millions of tons of grain.

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.