Insights and Stories on Food

Mexico to rework decree on GM corn, economy minister says

Dec. 7, 2022 at 6:03 pm CST

Mexico City | Reuters — Mexico has offered to extend a deadline to ban genetically modified (GM) corn until 2025 and is working on a proposal to overhaul its plan, Economy Minister Raquel Buenrostro said on Wednesday. Buenrostro said President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador had told the U.S. Mexico could […]

U.N.-backed investors set fresh targets in sustainable food shift

Oct. 27, 2022 at 8:40 am CDT

By Simon Jessop

Crop merchant Bunge raises full-year profit outlook

Oct. 26, 2022 at 8:35 am CDT

By Karl Plume

India allows exports of wheat flour processed from imported grain

Oct. 14, 2022 at 7:22 pm CDT

By Reuters

Haiti gang blockade causing catastrophic hunger, U.N. says

Oct. 14, 2022 at 7:16 pm CDT

By Brian Ellsworth

Conagra tops profit, sales estimates even as consumers turn thrifty

Oct. 6, 2022 at 1:21 pm CDT

Reuters — Conagra Brands beat quarterly sales and profit estimates on Thursday, boosted by higher prices for its Marie Callender’s and Slim Jim brands even as consumer demand wanes under the weight of decades-high inflation. Global food companies have been increasing prices over the past year to shield profit margins, […]

By Granth Vanaik Mehr Bedi

Nearly a million people face starvation in hunger hotspots, U.N. agencies report

Sep. 21, 2022 at 2:47 pm CDT

London | Reuters — Nearly one million people in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Somalia and Yemen are starving or will face starvation this year in the absence of aid, as the global food crisis worsens, United Nations agencies warned on Wednesday. Local conflict and weather extremes remain the primary drivers […]

By Maytaal Angel

Produce prices spike in flood-hit Pakistan as food crisis looms

Aug. 31, 2022 at 2:31 pm CDT

Lahore | Reuters — Vegetable and fruit prices have soared in markets across Pakistan as devastating rains ruin crops and disrupt supplies, an early sign of how the worst floods in decades are creating food shortages at a time of financial crisis. Pakistan’s 220 million people are already facing rampant […]

By Mubasher Bukhari

Cold and hungry: Food inflation bites Canada’s North

Aug. 8, 2022 at 3:30 pm CDT

Iqaluit | Reuters –– In Canada’s remote North, residents have long paid dearly for food, and rising prices have worsened an already dire situation, exposing the vulnerability of one of the world’s biggest exporters of grains and meat. Communities in Nunavut — the largest of the three territories that make […]

By Rod Nickel

Rajapaksa dynasty draws to humiliating close in Sri Lanka

Jul. 12, 2022 at 8:06 pm CDT

Colombo | Reuters — The Rajapaksa dynasty dominated Sri Lankan politics until April when street protests against fuel and food shortages began to slip out of control. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country early on Wednesday, leaving no one from the once-illustrious family in a position of power. The president […]

By Devjyot Ghoshal Uditha Jayasinghe