Millets are considered a superfood - being rich in minerals like calcium, potassium and zinc - and punted to help achieve the UN’s 2030 goal to end hunger everywhere. However, the cereals are also rich in dietary fibres, which have demonstrated to limit...
Ahead of the 2025 World Health Assembly Nutrition deadline, several heads of African Union (AU) member states have called for more commitment and accountability in tackling malnutrition and food insecurity.
In the run-up to the International Year of Millets (IYOM) in 2023, India’s Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare has organised a series of challenges to raise awareness of the forgotten ancient grain and encourage participation from startups and...
Chairman and CEO Daniel Servitje said the Mexican bakery giant had experienced ‘very good results in terms of volumes, pride reputation and revenue growth management initiatives’ across all its markets in Q3 2021.
The Dutch entrepreneurial development bank FMO and Proparco – the financing arm of Agence Française de Développement Group – have reaffirmed support for long-standing client Tirayaki Agro through a new syndicated facility that will provide impact through...
The UK breakfast brand has joined forces with charitable food redistributors FareShare to get a steaming bowl of porridge into the hands of those in need.
To mark Whole Grain Day (19 November), Cereal Partners Worldwide (CPW) has again called on governments and policymakers to recognise the contribution of whole grains and help their nation make it a priority inclusion in their diets.
The Big Issue Japan – a street newspaper that enlists vendors who are homeless or working their way out of poverty – has made its foray into the bread business with an initiative aimed to slash food waste.
According to the United Nations (UN), climate change threatens our food supply ‘through increasing temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and greater frequency of some extreme events’. And there’s no time to lose.
The head of the United Nations’ food agency said the beleaguered country – which is battling economic and political woes, the COVID-19 pandemic and a major blast that tore through its capital city – could run out of bread in about 2½ weeks.
Corbion has been granted a European patent for its fruit ferments containing natural organic acids and other flavour compounds, which can be used in bakery applications, as well as meats, sauces and dressings.
A doctoral student of the University of Vaasa is presenting her academic dissertation, which asserts that grocery stores are better equipped to reduce bread waste than consumers.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has announced it will destroy global stocks of its fortified cereal – a critical part of its efforts to prevent malnutrition among women and children – identified as the culprit of an outbreak of illness in...
The Cookie Project has launched New Zealand’s first real person traceable packaging via QR code technology, which it hopes will break down the stigma around people with disabilities.
Climate scientists are warning that climate change-induced droughts could devastate more than half of the world’s wheat fields by the end of the century, triggering food shortages, market upheaval and political unrest.
The breakfast cereal giant’s CEO and chairman Steve Cahillane has promised to ‘do everything we can to leave the world a better place than we found it.’
Members of the International Food and Beverage Alliance (IFBA) have undertaken to limit the use of industrial trans fat (iTFA) in their products by 2023.
World hunger remains a persistent crisis, with approximately 842 million people going hungry every day. We look at the bakery and snack giants that are leading the fight against hunger and malnutrition.
The United Nation’s World Food Program (WFP) and World Vision International (WVI) are planning to pilot automated teller machines (ATMs) in refugee camps in East Africa, which dispense locally sourced foods like cereals; much like a banking ATM dispenses...
Global cereals supply is set to be the third highest on record in 2016/17, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), but down on last season.
The world’s biggest food firm, Nestlé, has put reducing food waste firmly on its agenda, announcing plans to help further prevent the issue of food losses and waste around the world at the Save Food Congress.
