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  • COP27: Israel harnessing DNA of bygone wild crops to enhance food supply

    Scientists in Israel are creating a gene bank from the seeds of local wild crops, some that have survived for thousands of years since the birth of agriculture and that may help farmers deal with a harsher climate in the coming decades.

  • World food supplies at risk as Russia withdraws from Black Sea deal

    Russia's weekend backtrack from a U.N.-brokered deal to export Black Sea grains is likely to hit shipments to import-dependent countries, deepening a global food crisis and sparking gains in prices. Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of wheat booked for delivery to Africa and the Middle East are at risk following Russia's withdrawal, while Ukrainian corn exports to Europe will get knocked lower, two Singapore-based traders said.

  • Saudi Arabia plans to localize 85 pct of food industry by 2030

    The country aims to raise its fish production by 500 percent and its exports to 3 billion Saudi riyals (800 million U.S. dollars), and the date exports to 2.5 billion riyals by 2025, said Ali Al-Sabhan, supervisor general of the Entrepreneurship Department at the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture, at the Gulf Entrepreneurs Forum held in the capital Riyadh.

  • Saudi, Russian agriculture ministers discuss food security

    The meeting was attended by the Saudi Grains Organization, Governor Eng. Ahmed Al-Faris and the Director General of the General Department for International Cooperation, Eng. Abdulaziz Al-Huwaish.

  • Solutions to the Global Food Crisis

    Industrialized agriculture arose in the United States and in other former European colonies. Now it has been exported worldwide. It’s worth examining industrialized agriculture in its home setting to understand how policy can either entrench it or open up new possibilities. The public and policymakers have a choice: We can either continue to prop up food systems as they currently exist or invest in resilient, democratic, and sophisticated food systems to prevent future crises.

  • Saudi Arabia Underlines Support to IMF Efforts to Alleviate Global Food Crisis

    During a meeting with IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, Al-Jadaan discussed areas of bilateral cooperation, including capacity development and the establishment of a regional office in Riyadh. According to Georgieva, talks reviewed the strong economic performance of Saudi Arabia and its basic support for the region, in addition to joint collaboration to address global challenges such as energy and food security.

  • Africa Food Prices Are Soaring Amid High Import Reliance

    Staple food prices in sub-Saharan Africa surged by an average 23.9 percent in 2020-22—the most since the 2008 global financial crisis. This is commensurate to an 8.5 percent rise in the cost of a typical food consumption basket (beyond generalized price increases). Global factors are partly to blame. Because the region imports most of its top staple foods—wheat, palm oil, and rice—the pass-through from global to local food prices is significant, nearly one-to-one in some countries.

  • Catastrophic floods: Understanding the gravity of Pakistan’s health and food crises

    An estimated 16 million children have already been impacted by the floods and millions remain in need of lifesaving support, according to figures from the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF). Delivering that support is an enormous task. Cases of malaria, dengue, and skin diseases continue to climb, and water borne diseases have pushed daily patient numbers to as high as 90,000 in Sindh.

  • Saudi consumer prices up 3% in August on higher food, transport

    Saudi Arabia's consumer price index (CPI) rose 3% in August from a year earlier, official data showed on Thursday, accelerating from a 2.7% increase in July. Food and beverages and transport prices were again the main drivers of inflation, both rising 4% in August, the General Authority for Statistics said in a statement. Meat prices were up 6.7%, pushing up the rate for food and beverages, which make up 18.8% of the consumer basket.

  • Food Security: Europe forced to turn to OCP to meet its fertilizers needs

    One of the few viable alternatives to Russian fertilizer is Morocco, which already accounts for 40% of Europe’s imports of phosphate, said Jacob Hansen, Director General of Fertilizers Europe. Hansen made the remarks to European press as the global battle for fertilizer, a vital commodity for food production, has emerged as one of the by-products of the Russia/Ukraine conflict, leaving states in Europe and elsewhere scrambling for alternative suppliers.