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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said that a funding crisis has forced it to suspend a programme that provided food vouchers to 1.7 million Syrian refugees in neighbouring...
Del Monte Pacific has approved a joint venture with Spanish fruit company Nice Fruit and investment firm Ferville to build a modern cold storage facility in the Philippines.
Breakfast cereal maker Kellogg's has increased its bid for Egyptian cake and biscuit maker Bisco Misr to EGP82.2 ($11.50) per share, in an increasingly intensifying bidding war with Dubai-based competitor...
Arla Foods UK is planning to cut around 100 jobs as part of its restructuring process in the British dairy sector.
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has released results from its year-long survey of campylobacter in fresh chickens, which revealed that almost 70% chickens tested positive for the bacterial presence.
Ghana and Togo have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to work together in agriculture, aquaculture and fisheries to provide food adequacy and security to the West African sub-region.
Frozen foods producer BRF, responsible for brands such as Sadia, has opened a $160m (Dh588m) factory at Kizad in Abu Dhabi.
Lebanon is to shutdown six dairy factories that produce Labneh after their product samples failed health safety tests.
UAE-based Abraaj investment management has increased its offer to $127.9m for the acquisition of 100% shares of Egyptian confectionary producer Bisco Misr.
US-based nutritional bars and functional powder products manufacturer Nellson Nutraceutical is to acquire Le Groupe Multibar, nutritional and snack bars producer, for an undisclosed amount.
