sustainability
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Shetland shellfish fishery wins MSC ocean award
A Shetland shellfish fishery that closed its own nursery grounds in 2004 has won the Marine Stewardship Council's top ocean prize, two decades before supermarkets began chasing the same label.
Spain's 2026 wine harvest falls as stocks climb 22%
Growers delivered one of Spain's earliest harvests on record, yet cellars already hold more wine than the new crop adds, and farm groups are split on what comes next.
Bacalhau tops €21.82 a kilo as Portugal heads into Christmas
Weekly tracking from consumer group DECO PROteste puts salt cod 36% above last year, as Norway and Russia cut the Barents Sea cod quota to its lowest level since 1991.
Shepherd Neame self-funds £15m Kent brewery rebuild
Britain's oldest brewer is shrinking its brewing capacity while modernising its Kent site, just as its contract to brew Singha Lager comes to an end.
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.
Colombia's coffee crop falls to its smallest since 2022
Colombia's national coffee output dropped 15% to 12.65 million bags for the 2025-26 season, its smallest crop since 2022-23, while a strong El Niño threatens the harvest still to come.
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.
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.
South Africa crowns its Top 10 olive oils for 2026
The Absa Top 10 Olive Oil Awards named its 2026 winners in Cape Farms, days after De Rustica became the first South African producer to top an International Olive Council category.
Ivory Coast's cocoa crop shrinks as dry weather drags on
Port arrivals in the world's top cocoa producer are tracking up to 17% behind last year, with an EU deforestation deadline adding pressure to ship before year-end.
StoneX buys Integra, a Colombian coffee trader, exporter and mill
The US commodities firm is folding a family-run origination business near Medellín into its global coffee arm, the latest trading house to buy its way to the farm gate.
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