sustainability
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California fig season holds steady at 10m pounds
The Emerald variety is generating the buzz, but growers say labour, water and packing costs have climbed sharply since last year's harvest.
Ivory Coast cocoa supply hits a two-year inventory high
Farmers have shipped 18% more cocoa to port than a year ago, but early surveys of the next crop point to disease pressure and a smaller harvest ahead.
Wales business rates to fall 30% for pubs and cafés
The Welsh government will replace a temporary hospitality discount with a permanent, deeper one from April 2027, funded by higher rates on the most valuable properties.
Norwegian mackerel season slows as the quota cut bites
Weekly landings fell from 23,000 to 4,082 tonnes as the fleet works a sharply reduced quota and British retailers swap Atlantic mackerel for cheaper jack mackerel in tins.
Ghana's cocoa price rise risks more smuggling
A proposed 6 percent rise in what Ghana pays its cocoa farmers would leave it paying roughly 75 percent more than Ivory Coast, reviving fears of beans crossing the border.
Sustainable Seafood September champions British seafood
James Strawbridge's five-dish collection backs Scottish herring, Irish and Scottish mussels and Cornish sardines, with Waitrose, Aldi and five other retailers behind the blue MSC label.
Twenty-three green stars, and only eight of them shine twice
Sustainability now has its own scoreboard in the Dutch guide. Most of the kitchens on it hold no regular star at all, and that is the interesting part.
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