“Financing is … urgent,” the FAO said in the report released ahead of a global conference on agriculture, food security and climate change in the Hague from October 31 to November 5. World agriculture urgently needs billions of dollars in additional annual investment to boost output and reduce its negative impact on the environment, the [...]
McDonald’s Corp. plans to raise menu prices to blunt higher costs, including what would be its first such increase in the U.S. in more than a year — a time when the burger chain’s sales have thrived amid lower prices. The company expects to increase prices in the U.S. and Europe amid projections that commodity [...]
Two years ago, China was rocked by food safety concerns when the milk powder parents were feeding their infants was found to be laced with melamine, an industrial chemical. Scores of babies were sickened, and six died. Now, as worries about the food industry persist, many Chinese are more careful about the foods they’re buying. [...]
