Rains may delay start of Vietnamese coffee harvest AgraNet (subscription) PROLONGED rains in Vietnam's Central Highlands coffee belt this year, after a late start of the monsoon season, may delay the 2010/11 coffee harvest by more ...
Teaching call BBC News With Scottish pupils now back at school, a charity has called for teachers to include discussion of fair trade in their lesson plans. ...
Late monsoons to delay harvest in Vietnam AgraNet (subscription) Heavy precipitation and a late start to the monsoon season is expected to delay the 2010/11 (Oct/Sep) harvest by more than a month to December, ...
Revisiting Fairtrade Eastbourne Today IN A letter to the paper two years ago, I questioned whether Eastbourne really has what it takes to achieve Fairtrade Town Status and I would now like to ...
Premium bakers better placed for cost rises British Baker Bakery manufacturers making premium goods are better-placed to ride out the commodities pricing storm, according to a leading ingredients supplier. ...
Social Enterprise shorts - 25/08/10 Social Enterprise Live Christiana Ohene Agyare was elected at the co-operative's annual general meeting, attended by 2600 delegates in Kumasi, Ghana, earlier this month. ...
Pink Paper FOOD: Wahaca Pink Paper The chili is definitely in vogue. The British love of fiery food is well-known and there has been a recent swing of interest from the East to South America ...
ICE US Review: Cocoa Futures Decine AgraNet (subscription) ICE cocoa ended Tuesday's session weaker, but was able to avoid session lows thanks to short covering that appeared as prices touched one-year lows from ...
Lindt: Global cocoa surplus for 2011 Kennedys Confection (blog) 24th August Lindt & Sprungli Chief Executive Ernst Tanner has said he expects the global cocoa market to move into surplus for 2010/2011, according to ...
Lindt predicts global cocoa surplus in 2010/11 AgraNet (subscription) THE global cocoa market looks set to move into surplus in 2010/11, Ernst Tanner, chief executive officer of Swiss chocolatier Lindt & Spruengli said today. ...
HFMWeek Daily Snapshot - 24 August HFMWeek (blog) The boyfriend of a former Walt Disney administrative assistant admitted to engaging in a scheme to sell early access to the company's earnings report in US ...
Markets bet on wheat and corn price hikes Procurement Leaders News Fuelled by expected demand spikes for commodities including corn and wheat, a newly compiled index of futures contracts tracking net positions surged 2.6% ...
Fair trade farmers team up with Cadbury CTV.ca A cocoa farmer from West Africa is in Calgary to enlist Canadians support for fair trade. A cocoa farmer from West Africa is in Calgary to enlist Canadians ...
How Goldman gambled on starvation
Johann Hari writes about the financial speculation on food commodities that inflicted so much pain on poor people in 2006 and 2007, and a new campaign from WDM to get it regulated.