Food supply chains

Chocolate bounty: Ghana at war against cocoa smugglers

This content was published on Nov 5, 2025 The Swiss chocolate industry's main supplier of cocoa beans fights cocoa smuggling with new rewards for informants and support for farmers.

Agribusiness

Nestlé rejects allegations of human rights violations in supply chain

This content was published on Oct 30, 2025 Nestlé denies human rights abuse claims in its supply chain.

Harvesting coffee in Alfenas, Brazil, in July. The country is the world’s largest coffee producer.

Agribusiness

Coffee production may be imperiled as forests are destroyed for more crops

This content was published on Oct 24, 2025 A new report by an industry watchdog adds to growing scientific consensus that as forests are felled to make way for coffee farms, rainfall decreases and crops are more likely to fail.

Farmers' organisation sees improvement in EU treaty package

Agribusiness

Swiss farmers’ union applauds progress on EU treaty package

This content was published on Oct 22, 2025 Swiss Farmers' Union is positive about progress in EU treaty deal but has not taken a definitive position on it.

Climate adaptation

Sushi rice instead of potatoes? Swiss agriculture adapts to climate change

This content was published on Oct 17, 2025 In Switzerland farmers are experimenting with new crops that can withstand heat and drought. But the transition has its challenges.

Agribusiness

Nestlé to cut thousands of jobs in next two years

This content was published on Oct 16, 2025 The new CEO of the Swiss food giant Nestlé, Philipp Navratil, announced the company plans to cut 16,000 jobs globally over two years.

Tim Hanley at his dairy farm in western Ireland, near a Nestlé factory to which he provided milk for infant formula sold in China.

Food supply chains

Why a prospering Irish Nestlé factory is closing down

This content was published on Oct 15, 2025 China’s baby boom enriched a small Irish town where a Nestlé factory made formula for Chinese newborns. Then a baby bust unraveled it all. Or so it seemed.

Nestlé abandons alliance to reduce methane emissions

Agribusiness

Nestlé exits global alliance to reduce methane emissions

This content was published on Oct 9, 2025 Swiss multinational Nestlé is abandoning an international alliance to reduce methane emissions in the dairy industry, an entity that the company had helped to found.

Food supply chains

How fillers and flavours help reduce cocoa in chocolate treats

This content was published on Sep 26, 2025 Record prices of cocoa beans have boosted the development and adoption of cheaper replacement options that provide the same chocolate taste for less.

Agribusiness

Swiss parliament demands greater transparency in pricing of food

This content was published on Sep 25, 2025 The Swiss Senate on Thursday approved a parliamentary initiative to monitor precisely who makes what margin in the food value chain and where various costs are incurred.

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