A report from Environmental Research Letters shows that crops yields worldwide have dropped by 40 millions tonnes a year as a result of rising temperatures. Though this is a small percentage of total harvests, it’s not a promising trend.

Green labelling of food to show the impact of its production on the environment could lead to major changes in consumption, Lucy Neville-Rolfe of British retailer Tesco said on Tuesday.

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in its recent report, has predicted that global warming would mean Asia would be getting less rainfall, affecting agricultural production and leading to food and water shortage.

Interest in ‘ethical wines’ is fast increasing, but what do buyers really get for their money?

Food flown into the UK could be stripped of its organic label if the Soil Association goes ahead with controversial plans to deal with major loopholes in its rulebook.

Armed groups in Colombia are driving peasants off their land to make way for plantations of palm oil, a biofuel that is being promoted as an environmentally friendly source of energy.

Achim Steiner, head of the UN Environment Program states:

“What President Castro points to is something the UN Food and Agriculture Organization has also raised recently: That there is significant potential and risk for competition between food production and production for a global biofuels market,” Steiner told Reuters during a environmental meeting in Havana.