Food politics

Bulgarian meat is among the most contaminated with antibiotics in the EU according to the seventh annual report of the European Medicines Agency on the sale of antibiotics for animals in 30 European countries in 2015. According to the report in Bulgaria, 1 kg of live weight averages 121 milligrams antibiotic, making it the eighth highest European antibiotic rating.

Turkey's newly-appointed food, agriculture and livestock minister has called luxurious hotels to slash their food portions in a bid to avoid waste as more than 800 million people face hunger and malnutrition across the world.

The thought of eating bugs, faeces or blood doesn’t sound very enticing, but according to a team of scientists in Denmark, they are a few of the things we should eat if we want our food to be both sustainable and healthy.

Lots of people turn their noses up at food past its prime, but in Copenhagen, supermarket Wefood has proved so successful in selling expired food that it is actually opening a second branch.

World food prices rose in September to their highest since March 2015, led mainly by sugar, the United Nations food agency said on Oct. 6.

Except for a small dip in July, the Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) food price index has been increasing steadily since January, when it hit a seven-year low.

Staple food prices rose 7 percent in August in comparison to the previous year on the back of a rise in commodities other than grains, the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Sept. 8. 

Staple food prices rose in August even as grain prices fell, and the outlook for global cereal production improved, the FAO said in a statement. 

Ministers, delegates and civil society organizations discussed the Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) and their impacts on agricultural and rural development in a round table meeting on May 4 during the 30th U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Regional Conference for Europe (ERC) in the southern Turkish resort town Antalya.

The agenda on food security and agriculture, as well as fight against climate change, hunger and poverty, can only be implemented through a global cooperation, according to the director of The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, José Graziano da Silva.

Political leaders from Europe and Central Asia are expected to meet in the Mediterranean resort city of Antalya on May 3 to discuss the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their implications for agriculture and rural development.

Food is essential to life. Our existence is dependent on the food we eat, so it is no coincidence that we often identify ourselves with what we eat. Food is in a way the very core of our cultures and identities. Mankind has always struggled for food, fought for food and prayed for food. We all surely appreciate what we eat and feel grateful to be able to have it.