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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 came up about $6 billion short of the $40 billion in U.S. agricultural products it agreed to purchase in the two-year trade deal it signed in January 2020 – but suddenly began making up a bit of that deficit after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as Chinese buyers scrambled to cover potential shortfalls of Ukrainian corn.

A senior EU official has warned that the European agri-food sector is going to face serious ‘pain’ as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Countries across the Middle East and North Africa that rely heavily upon Ukraine and Russia for wheat imports may face a food crisis in the near future if Kyiv and Moscow remain at war, regional experts told Al Jazeera on Tuesday.

It’s not just the price of food on the kitchen table. The price of the table itself is up nearly 20 percent!

The narrative that the planet and its inhabitants face extinction climate change is stopped has now landed on your Thanksgivig table.

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.

Rice cultivated on Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido “has become tastier thanks to (global) warming,” former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso said Monday.

Supply chain crisis has trickled down to U.S. school cafeterias, as food workers struggle to get meals for students on the table.

Bacon prices are up 17 percent compared with a year ago. Eggs are up 9.9 percent. Even salad dressing is getting more expensive.

Putting food on the kitchen table has become much more expensive, squeezing household budgets at a time when many families are already stressed by the Delta variant surge hitting as kids go back to school. Food prices rose a full

Foodstuffs supplied to Afghanistan by the United Nations (U.N.) World Food Programme may run out by the end of September, Ramiz Alakbarov, a U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Afghanistan, warned Wednesday.

Police in London arrested a man on suspicion of contaminating food in three supermarkets by injecting them with syringes.

Referring to Indian food as “curry” is a racist relic of British colonialism, according to woke academics and food influencers.

Boris Johnson is set to launch a China-style social credit score app that will reward families based on their choices at the grocery store.

This is a classic case of ‘bootleggers and baptists’: two apparently opposing groups agitating for the same cause.

Referring to food as “exotic” creates distance between individuals and groups and “reinforces xenophobia and racism,” according to a recent Washington Post article.

The Communist Party of China implemented a law Thursday extensively regulating how much food each citizen in the country can eat, requiring restaurants to fine individuals if they leave too many leftovers and banning social media videos showing people binge eating.

Nearly 900 cattle that have been traveling the Mediterranean for two months will be killed after vets deemed them no longer fit for export.

Roughly a dozen police officers guarded dumpsters full of food at a Portland, Oregon, Fred Meyer grocery store Tuesday as people had tried to scrounge for food that had been thrown away.

As Marie Antoinette didn’t say, let them eat artisanal English cheeses. It’s only going to go in the bin, otherwise.

The UK is considering taxing all areas of life depending on how polluting they are, with higher heating and grocery bills a likely outcome.

Yellow mealworms, which may be enjoyed as a crunchy meal or in ground up as protien powder has been cleared for human consumption by the EU.

China’s communist rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC), introduced a bill Tuesday that would mandate a government war against “food waste” that includes ordering guests at weddings and other public events to eat less.

A restaurant in Middletown, Connecticut, is making sure its neighbors who lost power during Tropical Storm Isaias have food on their tables.

Swedish supermarket chain Coop has announced it will be creating new “sustainability” labels for all of its food products, including their climate impact.

Europeans must move to a “more plant-based diet”, according to new EU food policy, which also revealed the bloc will promote “insect-based proteins and meat substitutes”.

Twelve percent of Americans say they may not be able to afford food if stringent social distancing measures remain in place another month, preventing many “nonessential” workers from returning to work, according to results from Morning Consult’s weekly coronavirus survey tracker released Friday.

Ongoing economic restrictions driven by the coronavirus outbreak will cause shortages of beef and pork in grocery stores and supermarkets, said Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), offering his remarks in an interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak.

Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) explained that millions of cows and pigs will be euthanized if the status quo of varying economic restrictions across the country, ostensibly in response to the coronavirus outbreak, continue. He offered his remarks on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak.

A Foodshare drive-through food bank in Hartford, Connecticut, has drawn massive lines as the economic shutdowns spurred by the coronavirus pandemic continue to ravage the American economy, leaving millions of Americans without work and, in some cases, unable to feed their families.

The recruitment drive came after industry warned a lack of immigrants because of coronavirus would leave vegetables rotting in the fields.

Delta Air Lines has decided to donate 200,000 pounds of its uneaten perishable and nonperishable food as a result of the lack of passengers flying due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The European Union will soon permit the sale of locusts, crickets, grasshoppers, and mealworms as food across the continent.

The coronavirus shutdowns of schools and restaurants have had a big negative impact on the demand for milk.

Houston’s hospitality industry has been working overtime to feed those who work around the clock to feed Houston.