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The World Health Organization (WHO) is providing support to 16 African nations in a bid to ensure preparedness and swift response in the wake of the a listeriosis outbreak that started in South Africa in 2017 but is now threatening other countries on the continent.
At least 180 people have died in what has become the deadliest outbreak of listeria since records began. Now, officials have traced it to its source.
An outbreak of the foodborne bacteria listeria in South Africa has claimed more lives than any other outbreak in recorded history.
Chocolate manufacturer Mondelēz has said it will ramp up its efforts to work against deforestation and unsustainable farming in the world's biggest cocoa producing nations.
As Lactalis allegedly faces hundreds of lawsuits over a salmonella outbreak at the end of 2017, the President of France has reassured the European community that French products are safe.
The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) worked with experts to write the book on cacti. Crop Ecology, Cultivation and Uses of Cactus Pear spreads knowledge of how to manage the plant effectively. It also gives…
Scientist have used an 'antelope perfume' to keep tsetse flies from cows, cutting sleeping sickness rates by 80 per cent.
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and humanitarian organisations have conducted a large study in Burkina Faso in West Africa treating more than 1,600 children with acute malnutrition.
Finger millet's genetic code has been decoded in detail for the first time by researchers at Zurich University.
Animals suffer form food intolerance and allergies in the same way as humans, the Messerli Research Institute has found. A joint venture by Vetmeduni Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna, the Messerli Research Institute has published a new European position paper.
More than 40 MPs have added their voices to the campaign to persuade supermarket giant Sainsbury's not to axe the Fairtrade label in favour of its own "Fairly Traded" alternative.
The cocoa and chocolate industry is currently running against a fundamentally unsustainable model. Barry Callebaut's Peter Boone urges change...
27 February 2017 | By New Food
Divine Chocolate, the leading international Fairtrade company, has released its 2016 figures that include dividends for its Ghanaian farmers...
22 February 2017 | By Roy Manuell | Digital Editor
New study shows the road to make cocoa a sustainable and high yielding crop is still long...
16 January 2017 | By NIBIO – Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research
A species of moth looks set to significantly threaten crops in West Africa and the future is looking increasingly uncertain...
