Produce
Where what we eat comes from, and who gets paid along the way.
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World Pasta Day 2026 puts Parma at its centre
Riccardo Felicetti marks the 28th edition by urging small producers to retire overused claims like bronze-drawn and slow-dried, as Italy's trade numbers keep climbing.
China's farmed sturgeon now supplies 60% of the world's caviar
Yidu, on the Yangtze, ships more than 10,000 tins a day from a breeding valley built where fishing nets once hung. A kilo that cost 160,000 yuan a decade ago now sells by the tin for under 200.
Italy's chestnut prices rise 46% as drought cuts the harvest
Ismea's October price data put chestnuts at €3.50 a kilo nationally, up 46 percent in a year, as Coldiretti estimates this autumn's harvest is down by about a quarter.
Ethiopian researchers turn coffee parchment into cellulose
A team at Addis Ababa Science and Technology University pulls almost 92% pure cellulose out of the husk that mills usually burn or dump.
Bread Ahead secures its future at Borough Market
A month after being told it would lose its stall for growing too successful, the bakery has accepted a lease extension to 2028 from Borough Market Trust.
Emilio Medina wins Spain's Young Talent gastronomy award
The Palencia grower behind La Mielga, a project that rescues old seeds in Tierra de Campos, completes the seven 2026 National Gastronomy Awards before the Toledo gala.
Consuegra's saffron festival returns for its 64th year
The 64th Fiesta de la Rosa del Azafrán fills Cerro Calderico from 23 to 25 October, timed to the hand-picked harvest that still defines La Mancha's saffron trade.
Spanish olive oil prices slide as farmers demand storage rule
Extra virgin trades below €3.20 a kilo at origin, and Spain's four big farm organisations want Madrid to order mills to hold back part of a 1.6-million-tonne crop.
California vineyards lose 19,000 hectares in a single year
Growers pulled out 47,229 acres of wine grapes in twelve months, a faster pace than the year before, and the industry still thinks it has too many vines.
Peru's chuncho cacao draws buyers to Cusco fair
Eight buyers from six countries toured plantations in La Convención this month, as Peru's cacao and derivative exports hit a record $1.57 billion in 2025.
BM Caterers starts growing its own produce in Wiltshire
A dedicated community farm now supplies the workplace caterer's corporate menus, part of a wider push by UK operators to shorten supply chains under cost pressure.
Belgian supermarkets still push meat and dairy, report finds
Questionmark's Superlist Environment Belgium 2026 ranks Lidl and Delhaize ahead of Colruyt, Carrefour and Aldi, but finds all five still encourage diets heavy in animal protein.
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