The effects of the global economic crisis are set to create downward pressure on retail food prices as ‘tail-end ripple effects’ of high commodity prices subside and manufacturers battle for...

World Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy is coming to Australia for the 2009 ABARE Outlook conference, a decision that highlights the importance of Australia’s role in the future of...

Farm Pride, Australia’s largest egg producer, has donated a truck load of eggs to several CFA drop off points in bush fire affected areas. The eggs, which total more than 7000 dozen, will be used...

A number of Michelin-starred restaurants in London are slashing the prices of set course menus at lunch and dinner to as low as £12 (A$26.50) in order to entice consumers confronted with a recession and...

A US review of official fish consumption advice has been welcomed in Australia. Mr Roy Palmer, an expert on seafood and health, said today the US review suggested higher consumption of seafood conferred...

Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Tony Burke addressed a high-level meeting on global food security in Madrid last week, raising free trade and scientific research as key issues. Australia...

A new report released today by a national health association – ‘A Future for Food’ – calls for a complete overhaul of food policy in Australia in order to more effectively address...

Australia’s Sunny Queen Farms is set to launch an industry-first product into the egg market. The Australian egg brand, which last year recorded the third greatest value growth of any of the Top...

Despite a quarterly deflation figure and disinflation for the year to December, food price inflation gathered pace in the closing months of 2008, according to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics...

While the stockmarket continues to head toward the floor the need for food relief has gone through the roof. Australia’s largest hunger relief organisation, Foodbank Australia, is discovering just...