The UK’s main business organisation the CBI warned on 6th September that UK businesses should expect two years of labour shortages. Atul Kariya, a partner at accountancy network MHA, believes […]
Mon 25/07/2022 by Richard Wilkinson
azerbaijan_stockers/Freepik
New Zealand’s apple production and exports are forecast to rise in marketing year 2021/22 (January 2022-December 2022), but remain far below levels previously expected as a result of continued shortages […]
Tue 24/05/2022 by Richard Wilkinson
Freshuelva
Only 25% of Huelva’s 6,000 hectares of strawberries will continue production during the first weeks of June, according to www.agrodiariohuelva.es. One of the main reasons for the gradual closure of […]
Tue 24/05/2022 by Richard Wilkinson
Jan Helebrant
New Zealand’s kiwifruit industry hopes the reopening of the country’s borders to backpackers will help address the labour shortage the country has been facing in recent years. Working holiday visa […]
Thu 24/03/2022 by Richard Wilkinson
Carrefour
The possible merger between Auchan and Carrefour has been put on pause, according to Revista infoRETAIL, despite the interest of several investment funds in the operation. Entities such as CVC, […]
Mon 14/02/2022 by Richard Wilkinson
Réussir Fruits & Légumes
Tesco has signed a last-minute pay deal with trade union Usdaw that should avert a strike called by workers at nine of its distribution centres. Usdaw members had threatened to […]
Wed 22/12/2021 by Richard Wilkinson
Fairtrade has announced an increase in its Minimum Price for bananas due to rising export costs and falling import prices, which have hit producers hard.
Tue 19/10/2021 by Richard Wilkinson
IFAD/Ibrahima Kebe Diallo
On the eve of the UN Food Systems Summit, the president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) spoke of the “terrible irony” that small-scale producers who grow a […]
Wed 29/09/2021 by Richard Wilkinson
Fairtrade
Fairtrade has introduced the Fairtrade Base Wage for banana plantations, which came into effect on 1 July, as well as the Living Wage Differential. The new Fairtrade Base Wage would […]
Mon 12/07/2021 by Richard Wilkinson
X. Fonseca/CIMMYT.
With the UK’s free trade agreement (FTA), the young British visitors to Australia will no longer be required to complete the required 88 days of farm work. The Australian government is to introduce new farm work visas for South-East Asians to fill the gap.
Fri 25/06/2021 by Richard Wilkinson
International Asparagus Days, the leading international event dedicated to the asparagus sector, will be held at the Rimini Expo Centre (Italy) from 7th to 9th September 2021. For the first […]
Tue 01/06/2021 by Richard Wilkinson
dailystar.co.uk
Retailer Morrisons has announced it is to become the first supermarket in the UK to pay at least £10 an hour to all of its 120,000 staff, as from April 2021.
Thu 21/01/2021 by Richard Wilkinson
