A team of seven cyclists from The Worshipful Company of Fruiterers has cycled 125km around the Isle of Wight to raise over £21,000 for London-based food redistribution charity City Harvest. read more

African countries have been warned that the European Green Deal is on the way, and they should be better prepared to deal with the effects. read more

Organic farming has answers for all the things that are ”radically wrong” with current agricultural practices, according to Alex Cullen of the Soil Association. read more

A strategic partnership between Tenderstem and Action Against Hunger has left a lasting impact on hundreds of families facing food poverty in the UK, Spain and Kenya, following 12 months of community initiatives. read more

Defra farming minister Mark Spencer has reiterated the government’s commitment to supporting farmers in the wake of the publication of John Shropshire’s independent review into UK labour shortages in the food supply chain. read more

Defra farming minister Mark Spencer has reiterated the government’s commitment to supporting farmers in the wake of the publication of John Shropshire’s independent review into UK labour shortages in the food supply chain. read more

IGD has emphasised its commitment to raising awareness of the wide range of employment opportunities available in the food and consumer goods sectors. read more

A vision for nature-friendly food production set out by farming and environment groups was welcomed by the three largest UK political parties at the Groundswell farming festival in Hertfordshire yesterday (29 June). read more

The forthcoming European pear harvest will be one of the smallest in the last ten years, with a forecast of around 1.9m tonnes. read more

Former G’s CEO John Shropshire, OBE, has today (30 June) published his much-anticipated independent review into labour shortages in the UK food supply chain. read more

Belgian cooperative BelOrta is supporting an environmental awareness campaign this weekend as food partner at electronic music festival Paradise City in Flemish Brabant. read more

The Mexican apple packer is based in Cuautemoc, Chihuahua one of the country’s major apple production regions. The medium-sized business had originally used manual sorting equipment and invested in Reemoon’s intelligent sorting equipment to increase production capacity, control quality, and
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Yesterday, the Dutch Staay Food Group got its first shipment of grapes - the Black Magic variety - from Puglia in southern Italy. Buyer Sander Rutten visited those grape growers last week. Four growers cultivate grapes for the Staay house brand NERO Premium. They are all modern family businesses
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According to the first estimates made public today in Interpera, the international pear congress held in Lleida, the next pear harvest will be one of the lowest in the last 30 years with around 1,900,000 tonnes forecast. According to these initial estimates,
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Special gift for three Spanish national team players from the same town, Los Palacios y Villafranca. Gavi, Fabian Ruiz and Jesus Navas were presented with crates of tomatoes from the small Andalusian municipality. read more

If there is one duo that is particularly popular with producers of honeydew melons from the Ionian arc up to northern Italy, it is Tripudio F1 and Graffio F1, varieties of HM.Clause.The two types act as a link between the end of early Sicilian greenhouse production and the beginning of the
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The Moroccan-Tunisian group RioFresh, which specializes in supplying fresh produce to supermarkets, relocated part of its operations to Montenegro at the beginning of this year, announced Fatma Zramdini, the company's CEO. A few months into this venture, Zramdini looks back on the successes and
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Fresh Del Monte launches a range of Hpp (High Pressure Processing) juices on the Italian market without added sugar (almost a prerequisite for new products in the segment). High Pressure Cold Pressing preserves the nutritional qualities read more

ALDI works with 60 suppliers from the Valencian Community and offers more than 320 locally sourced products in its shops in the region. The supermarket chain maintains a strong commitment to local production and Valencian producers, with whom it establishes relationships of trust and confidence.
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"The trade balance between goods on offer and demand is changing and, in general, the market is stable, but quotations are leaning upwards for fruit". Andrea Bonizzi, agronomist and price list manager at Veronamercato, told IFN.   read more