food supply

A study published Tuesday in Nature Communications is sounding the alarm that the risk of simultaneous crop failure in important food-producing regions around the world has been largely underestimated. Such an event could threaten the…

Farmers are taking measures to address the challenges, with herds and flocks being reduced to cut costs in a bid to keep businesses going. This has resulted in a shortage of products such as eggs. Compounding their troubles is the lack of…

GROWING RISK Maplecroft's new heat stress dataset, using global temperature data from the UK Met Office, feeds into its wider risk assessments of countries around the world. It is based on a worst-case emissions scenario leading to around…

LEVELLING THE PLAYING FIELD Other types of regulation, such as stricter rules on managing animal feed or manure more sustainably, run the risk of putting domestic livestock farmers at a disadvantage compared to competitors from abroad who…

Malaysia has already partially lifted its ban by allowing poultry producers and importers in Singapore to bring in live free-range chickens. On Aug 1, Malaysia announced that its chicken supply had stabilised and that it now can export the…

SINGAPORE: More frozen chicken from Indonesia is set to arrive in Singapore next month, after the first batch containing 50 tonnes of frozen chicken was shipped here last week. The first shipment of products - comprising two containers of…

Russia’s war in Ukraine is killing soldiers and civilians. People have been left homeless. Thousands have been forced to move away from where they live. In cities and towns, residents wonder if they’ll be hit by the next volley of…

The head of the U.N. World Food Program said people are being “starved to death” in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol, and he predicted the country’s humanitarian crisis is likely to worsen as Russia intensifies its assault in…

<!-- -->WTO has slashed global trade volume growth for 2022 due to Russia-Ukraine warNew Delhi: The world merchandise trade volume is expected to grow by 3 per cent in 2022 against the earlier forecast of 4.7 per cent, mainly due to…

A dire warning has been issued surrounding Australia’s Pacific Island neighbours, with claims they will be under water sooner rather than later.A Samoan climate activist has issued a stark warning that Pacific Islands including Tuvalu will…