Boycotts against a bovine burp blocking feed additive intended to mitigate supposed impacts of methane emissions on the climate have been launched in Britain over safety concerns, which proponents have branded as “misinformation”.
Russia followed its withdrawal from a grain export deal by expanding its attacks to farm storage buildings in Ukraine’s Odesa region.
Record-setting levels of illegal immigration under President Joe Biden are threatening the nation’s food supply as border crossers destroy farmland filled with crops, Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warns.
The beef cattle inventory in the United States is at its lowest point since 1962, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
The rapid inflation in the cost of fertilisers as a result of the Ukraine war could see as many as one million additional people die of hunger-related deaths, a report has claimed.
Farmers are to be offered even more money by the government to adopt green agenda policies, the British government’s food department has announced.
Britain’s climate-driven push for more solar farms is now risking the country’s food security, the head of the state’s environment committee has claimed.
Bushfires have reportedly engulfed “several mountains” in Chongqing, a municipality within southern China’s Sichuan province, in recent days, the Global Times reported on Monday, noting that the wildfires have merely exacerbated an ongoing heatwave and drought across most of China’s southern region that began in June.
China’s central government on Monday was “ramping up” efforts to prevent an ongoing heatwave and drought from ruining much of the nation’s autumn grain harvest across China’s southern region, the Global Times reported, noting that the autumn grain harvest in jeopardy contributes 75 percent of China’s annual grain production on average.
China’s central government issued its first national drought alert of 2022 on Thursday, advising authorities to “produce artificial rainfall when necessary” due to the “risk of wildfires” across vast swathes of China’s central and southern regions, according to Xinhua, the country’s official state press agency.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo, commonly known by the nickname “Jokowi,” said on Friday after meeting with the leaders of Ukraine and Russia that the situation between them is “still very difficult.”
Argentine truck drivers’ unions called for a nationwide strike on Wednesday, causing miles-long road closures and other transportation disruptions that threatened to jeopardize the country’s food supply during its peak harvest season, Reuters reported.
John Boyd Jr., a fourth generation farmer, said in an interview that the high prices consumers are seeing at the grocery stores will be replaced by empty shelves.
The global food supply is experiencing severe stress.
Vladimir Putin’s Russia is deliberately creating a global food crisis as well as a massive migrant crisis in the hopes of putting pressure on Europe, one leader has claimed.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has laid bare reliance on Vladimir Putin’s oil and gas exports but the damage does not stop there. In the invaded country itself, the “breadbasket of Europe,” farming operations have virtually shut down which could drive global food shortages.
New Delhi consulted with Cairo on Tuesday to discuss ways India may increase its export of wheat to Egypt, which has traditionally relied heavily upon wheat imports from the warring nations of Russia and Ukraine, the Times of India reported.
BEIRUT (AP) – Layal Aswad was already exhausted by Lebanon’s devastating two-year economic collapse. Now, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sends food and energy prices soaring even further, she finds herself struggling to put food on the table for her family of four.
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.
China’s state-run Global Times newspaper claimed on Wednesday that “chewing grass,” a slang term for light eating, had become a booming trend among China’s youth due to their preoccupation with health and fitness.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping announced Thursday that China had achieved “complete victory” against poverty, claiming not a single person among the nation’s 1.4 billion people was poor.
China’s Minister of Agriculture Tang Renjian told journalists in a press conference Monday that the nation’s grain supplies “at times come under pressure” and Beijing needs to act to “stabilize” its food supply.
Shutdowns of the nation’s meat and poultry processing plants because of the coronavirus means that the nation’s food supply chain is at risk.
