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Food security

  • Saturday, 2 May, 2026
    Retail & Consumer industry
    Is China decoupling on food?

    If this is pursued with the same energy as industrial policy, it will upend the agricultural economy

    Adam Tooze
    Harvesters working in golden wheat fields with dust trails at sunset near the Yellow River tidal flats.
  • Friday, 24 April, 2026
    Agricultural commodities
    Green fertiliser project challenges industry’s reliance on natural gas

    UK-listed Atome to develop project in Paraguay that uses hydropower to replace need for fossil fuel

  • Tuesday, 21 April, 2026
    Middle East war
    Hormuz disruption raises risk of global food shock, traders warn

    World ‘on borrowed time’ to avert crisis as higher gas prices squeeze fertiliser production

    A truck containing bags of fertiliser at an agro-chemical plant in northern Germany
  • Friday, 27 March, 2026
    Global Economy
    Alphaville. Inflation hits the stomach, again

    Hormuz shutdown goes against the grain

  • Friday, 27 March, 2026
    Middle East war
    The Big Read. The global food crisis unleashed by the war

    From Minnesota to Punjab, fertiliser costs are up and harvests are set to be hit

    Aerial view of farmers spreading out paddy rice to dry
  • Monday, 23 March, 2026
    Middle East war
    Piles of wheat and canned food stuck in transit as Iran war disrupts aid

    UN World Food Programme says millions more people may be pushed into acute hunger if disruption continues

    People walk past sacks and boxes of food aid distributed by the World Food Programme in a sandy outdoor area.
  • Saturday, 21 March, 2026
    Middle East war
    Iran lets grain ships through Hormuz to shore up food supply

    Agriculture has been a ‘pain point’ for Tehran after it imposes de facto blockade of waterway in response to US-Israeli war

    Cargo ships docked and operating at the BIK port in Bandar Imam Khomeini, with cranes and warehouses visible along the waterfront.
  • Wednesday, 4 March, 2026
    Middle East war
    Strait of Hormuz disruption threatens Middle East food imports

    UAE and Iran have urged citizens to avoid stockpiling

    A worker on top of a truck is surrounded by dust as soybeans pour from a chute during harvest at a Brazilian farm.
  • Wednesday, 4 March, 2026
    Food Safety
    Lorries with unsafe meat imports skip border checks, UK government says

    Data provided to Commons committee highlights major flaw in post-Brexit inspection regime

    A sign for the inland border facility at Sevington, near Ashford, Kent
  • Wednesday, 18 February, 2026
    FT Books Essay
    ‘Not all ultra-processed foods are the same’ — what next for the food industry?

    Two books offer arguments in favour of industrial innovations and appetising alternatives to meat — but lessons from the past should not be ignored

  • Wednesday, 14 January, 2026
    Global Economy
    The Big Read. Why the world has started stockpiling food again

    Governments are hoarding rice and grain as insurance against a world they increasingly view as unstable. But many economists believe it could be counter-productive

  • Wednesday, 3 December, 2025
    Climate change
    The food industry must face up to nature-related risk

    Boardrooms need to acknowledge that without healthy soils and reliable seasons the system could face collapse

    Dave Lewis
    Aerial view of a combine harvester cutting wheat in a dry, dusty field with visible rows of harvested and unharvested crops.
  • Tuesday, 2 December, 2025
    Business School Sustainable Education
    Business school teaching case study: A cereal for growth

    A social enterprise is tackling child malnutrition in Ghana, but can it balance purpose and profit as it expands?

    A student in a classroom holds up a packet of C-Real cereal and smiles, surrounded by classmates in green and white uniforms.
  • Saturday, 1 November, 2025
    US politics & policy
    Poor Americans face food aid delay during government shutdown

    Billions in ‘Snap’ nutritional assistance programme benefits are stalled despite court orders

    A volunteer arranges bags of fresh vegetables on metal shelves at New York Common Pantry.
  • Thursday, 9 October, 2025
    Food Prices
    ‘Vicious cycle’: the UK’s struggle with soaring food prices

    Living wage rises and planning system woes are driving price increases, say producers

    Montage shows a chicken, a hand holding a cup of coffee and a cow with a line of data indicating rising food prices
  • Tuesday, 7 October, 2025
    Business School Sustainable Education
    Business school teaching case study: The farming subsidy debate

    Global farm subsidies are worth more than $500bn a year but come at a high cost for biodiversity

    Olam International Limited logo displayed on a mobile phone, with the company’s edible oils webpage blurred in the background.
  • Sunday, 5 October, 2025
    Food diet
    Feeding the world will never be emissions free, report says

    Major study says decarbonising energy and transport sectors essential to offset food production

    A vendor reaches out for vegetables at her market stall, surrounded by a colourful variety of fresh produce
  • Monday, 15 September, 2025
    Food & Beverage
    India’s push for EU trade deal hit by basmati rice dispute

    Brussels plays for time as New Delhi and neighbouring Pakistan press competing claims to grain’s protected status

    A farm worker displays a handful of freshly harvested rice grains with both hands, with rice scattered on the ground in the background.
  • Thursday, 28 August, 2025
    Sustainability
    Renewable food is on the horizon

    Industrial agriculture is failing us — but markets have found a solution

    Paul Gilding
    Two people hold dessert cups with yellow-orange scoops of Solein ice cream.
  • Monday, 25 August, 2025
    Middle East war
    Global famine deaths rise as leaders use food as a weapon

    After decades of decline, the number of people dying from hunger is increasing as starvation spreads from Sudan to Gaza

    Left; People who fled the Zamzam camp for the internally displaced after it fell under RSF control, queue for food rations in a makeshift encampment in an open field near the town of Tawila in war-torn Sudan’s western Darfur region on April 13, 2025. Right; Palestinian children line up to receive a hot meal at a food distribution point in Nuseirat on June 30, 2025
  • Tuesday, 29 July, 2025
    Gaza
    ‘Worst-case scenario’ of famine unfolding in Gaza, says global hunger monitor

    Israel still not enabling movement of enough food to stave off ‘catastrophic human suffering’, World Food Programme says

    A Palestinian child cries out as he waits to receive food from a charity kitchen in Gaza City on Monday
  • Sunday, 29 June, 2025
    Middle East war
    Middle East tensions could trigger food price shock, warns fertiliser boss

    Fertiliser prices have been ‘extremely volatile’ in the past two weeks, says CEO of leading crop nutrients group Yara

    Svein Tore Holsether
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Palestinians loot food warehouse as hunger deepens Gaza chaos

    Incident follows disruption at food distribution site as Israel continues to limit supplies in 79-day siege

    Palestinians carry bags of food aid after storming a WFP warehouse in central Gaza on Wednesday
  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Gaza’s children don’t deserve to starve

    By withholding aid and now allowing only ‘minimal’ food supplies, Israel’s government is losing what’s left of its moral authority

    Arabella Duffield
    A little boy is fed by his mother with food from a community kitchen at the Muwasi camp for displaced Palestinians in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israeli siege tipping Gaza into famine, UN panel says

    Report warns that half a million people are starving with conditions to worsen if Israel does not ease blockade

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