The Wall Street Journal reports that Subway now has more locations than McDonald’s, the brand that personifies the fast food genre. WSJ says Subway closed out last year with 33,749 restaurants to Micky D’s 32,737. Subway’s website says its current store count is 34,218 in 95 countries. McDonald’s website confirms their store count as “over [...]
South Korea, the world’s third- biggest corn buyer, may increase grain production overseas as the country seeks to boost food security amid record global prices, the government said. “The need to develop overseas agricultural resources has never been felt more because global grain prices are rising rapidly,” the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries [...]
The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released its 2011 State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) report this week, just in time for today’s International Women’s Day. The report illustrates how better investments in female farmers would prevent malnourishment in 100-150 million people, because of the ways women are likely to allocate resources in [...]
