Speaking at the English Farming and Food Partnership’s (EFFP) sixth annual conference, Siôn Roberts EFFP’s Chief Executive warned that, despite signs that the economy will improve next year,...

Global food giant Nestle has admitted that it should have reacted faster to competitors’ price cuts to avoid slowing sales. Speaking during an interview with the Wall Street Journal, chief executive...

Inflation figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics have confirmed a strong fall in the price of fruit and vegetables in the September quarter. Last week supermarket chain Coles advised...

The price trend of food commodities has been broadly upwards this year, but prices continue to show significant volatility, according to the Westpac-NFF Commodity Index. During September 2009, the Westpac-NFF...

Woolworths, Australia’s largest supermarket operator, has indicated that it expects to see continued food disinflation for the remainder of this year.Speaking following the release of Woolworth’s...

The issue of feeding the world’s growing population is under the spotlight this week at a High-Level Expert Forum on How to Feed the World in 2050. Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organisation,...

The price of fruit and vegetables must increase to ensure that Australia’s horticulture sector does not collapse, a leading NSW farmers’ representative has argued. ”You will see the demise...

The new international crop year begins 1 October and sugar is facing a global deficit, while corn, soybean and wheat prices may have a soft end to the year. If sugar prices rise too high, demand could...

A war of words is erupting between consumer group Choice and the leading representative of the major supermarket chains during a Senate inquiry into the failure of the GROCERYChoice website. GROCERYChoice,...

Scarcity of natural resources will leave the consumer industry exposed to higher and more volatile pricing in little more than a decade. By 2020 it is estimated there will be one billion more consumers...