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Anti-obesity drugs may boost food companies

Anti-obesity drugs may boost food companies Anti-obesity drugs may boost food companies

Rising demand for anti-obesity drugs like Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy offers opportunities for drug makers. food and the market’s initially pessimistic reaction could be overblown, investors said. When Walmart said this month that it saw a slight decline in food consumption when people took the drug, it sparked a sell-off in shares of companies such as […]

Prices refuse to fall in the US and inflation stagnates in September at 3.7%

Prices refuse to fall in the US and inflation stagnates in September at 3.7% Prices refuse to fall in the US and inflation stagnates in September at 3.7%

The inflation rate in the United States refuses to fall, for the third consecutive month, and remained stable in September, at 3.7%, the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported this Thursday. This stagnation occurs after prices rose two and five tenths in August and September, respectively, after a previous one-year streak of declines. […]

Price of lemon is around S/9 per kilogram wholesale

Price of lemon is around S/9 per kilogram wholesale Price of lemon is around S/9 per kilogram wholesale

The Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (Midagri) reported that this Monday, October 2, 2023, it began with the lemon price at S/9 per kilogram in the wholesale market, while the food supply recorded the entry of more than 8,000 tons of products including legumes, tubers, fruits and vegetables. In the case of Great Wholesale […]

Annual inflation fell to 5.04%, its lowest level in 25 months

Annual inflation fell to 5.04%, its lowest level in 25 months Annual inflation fell to 5.04%, its lowest level in 25 months

Annualized inflation in Metropolitan Lima as of September reached 5.04%, the lowest in 25 months, after advancing only 0.02% in that month. While the accumulated figure so far in 2023 was 3.32%. According to the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI), the slight advance in the ninth month of the year was driven by […]

The paradox of food in Colombia: waste with hunger

The paradox of food in Colombia: waste with hunger The paradox of food in Colombia: waste with hunger

In Colombia 9.7 million tons of food are lost annually, while almost a third of households live in food insecurity serious or moderate, a paradox vindicated this Friday on the occasion of the “International day of awareness about food loss and waste.” “With the food we throw away in Colombia every year we could feed […]

Food prices continue to rise under the pressure of climate change

Food prices continue to rise under the pressure of climate change Food prices continue to rise under the pressure of climate change

How do you prepare food when a basic ingredient is too expensive? This question is being asked in homes around the world in the face of shortages of basic foods such as rice, oil kitchen and onions. That’s because some countries have introduced restrictions on the food they export to protect their own supplies from […]

Earthworms contribute to 6.5% of global cereal production

Earthworms contribute to 6.5% of global cereal production Earthworms contribute to 6.5% of global cereal production

Earthworms are important drivers of global production of foodsince they contribute approximately 6.5% of the production of cereals and 2.3% of the legumes produced worldwide each year. The impact of these animals was most significant in the global south. Specifically, his contribution was 10% grain yield in sub-Saharan Africa and 8% in Latin America and […]

Venezuelans need 126 monthly salaries to pay for the basic basket

Venezuelans need 126 monthly salaries to pay for the basic basket Venezuelans need 126 monthly salaries to pay for the basic basket

A family of five people in Venezuela need 126 minimum wage monthly to pay for the food basket, whose cost was 491 dollars in August, according to estimates by the Center for Documentation and Social Analysis of the Venezuelan Federation of Teachers (Cendas-FVM), released this Thursday. The independent entity explained that, last month, when the […]

Venezuela: producers warn of the entry of food without health permits

Venezuela: producers warn of the entry of food without health permits Venezuela: producers warn of the entry of food without health permits

The Confederation of Associations of Agricultural Producers of Venezuela (Fedeagro) warned this Saturday that perishable foods have entered the country without the regulatory health permits, which is why they ask the authorities to address this complaint. ”Finished and perishable foods are entering the country without the proper health permit,” Fedeagro president Celso Fantinel told private […]

Midagri: rules are being prepared to distribute unsold food

Midagri: rules are being prepared to distribute unsold food Midagri: rules are being prepared to distribute unsold food

The Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (Midagri) is preparing the regulations for the Law that promotes actions for the recovery of food (Law No. 31477), which was approved a year and a half ago, but, so far, it is a dead letter. . Sigrid Bazán, member of the Agrarian Commission of the Congressassured that […]