Americans need to reach deeper into their wallets at the grocery checkout, but there’s no indication the shelves will be barren, according to farmer survey data that tracks production. Food prices were up more than 10 percent year-over-year in June, with flour jumping almost 20 percent. Farmers have been hit with a conflation of adversities,…

COLOMBO—Sri Lankan lawmakers voted in parliament on Wednesday to choose the next president from three contenders amid tight security, hoping the new leader would pull the island out of a crippling economic and political crisis. A win for acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe, one of the main two contenders but opposed by many ordinary Sri Lankans,…

BERLIN—The head of the United Nations warned Friday that the world faces “catastrophe” because of the growing shortage of food around the globe. “There is a real risk that multiple famines will be declared in 2022,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a video message to officials from dozens of rich and developing countries gathered…

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned of a global food crisis following Russia’s invasion of his country, during a virtual speech addressing attendees at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on June 11. “The world will face an acute and severe food crisis and famine,” he said to the 575 delegates from 40 countries at the dialogue,…

Turkey has expressed continued interest in a beleaguered proposal to open a “grain corridor” that would facilitate the continued exports of grain from Ukraine to international markets along a sea corridor, which could provide Ukraine with additional income for its continuing war effort as well as ameliorate or prevent food shortages in the Middle East…

In order to get an idea of how bad an effect inflation, fertilizer shortages, the spike in gas price, and the Russia-Ukraine war will have on America’s food supply, we spoke with Robert Unanue, CEO of Goya Foods. And while he is optimistic that Americans will continue to have food to eat, the price of…

In order to get an idea of how bad an effect inflation, fertilizer shortages, the spike in gas price, and the Russia-Ukraine war will have on America’s food supply, we spoke with Robert Unanue, CEO of Goya Foods. And while he is optimistic that Americans will continue to have food to eat, the price of…

Commentary Brazil is the fourth-largest producer of food in the world. The country is entirely self-sufficient in basic foodstuffs, and it ranks as the world’s number one producer of banana, cacao, cassava, coffee, corn, maize, rice, soybean, and sugar. Although the bulk of these products are consumed domestically, a considerable part is also exported, including…

If everyone began doing this, it could put supermarkets out of business, save you a small fortune and save our planet from soil degradation, water pollution and climate change. What this man achieved in this one-year challenge is nothing short of remarkable. Have you ever wanted to grow your own food but didn’t know where…

Policies leading to a war on fossil fuel as well as the Russian invasion of Ukraine will contribute to a food crisis, according to Robert Unanue, President and CEO of Goya Foods. “We are on the precipice of food shortage.” Russia and Ukraine together produce half of the fertilizer used in the United States and…