News of food

Argentina seeks pre-election price freeze on 900 household goods

13-10-2021 15:44 Government aims to extend Precios Cuidados price control programme to approximately 900 household goods in its latest attempt to recover ground with voters.

Climate change in Brazil: Fire, frost, drought upends global markets

28-09-2021 09:32 Brazil's crops have been scorched, frozen and then dried out by the worst drought in a century, upending global commodity markets.

Chuño: the Andean secret to making potatoes last decades

16-07-2021 08:00 The ancestral method of making 'chuño' is a traditional dehydration practice which allows potatoes to be eaten decades after they are dug up – without losing their nutritional properties.

Peak meat? High prices and plant-based trends threaten demand

01-07-2021 08:32 Demand for meat is waning across the globe in what could signal the start of a new broad shift away from animal protein. 

Government extends food aid to four million kids under 14

09-05-2021 09:20 President Alberto Fernández says government will extend Tarjeta Alimentar food card scheme to four million children aged under 14, with poverty on rise among youngsters.

Argentine crop-monitoring app SIMA takes off with NASA's help

28-04-2021 00:01 Team behind the SIMA Monitoreo de Cultivos crop-monitoring app eyes further growth across Latin America after partnering with NASA.

UN: World food prices jump to six-year high

03-12-2020 19:26 Global food commodity prices rose sharply in November to their highest level in nearly six years, the UN food agency said Thursday, due in part to adverse weather conditions.

Critics name Narda Lepes best female chef in Latin America

04-11-2020 09:00 Argentine chef Narda Lepes has been named the best female chef in Latin America by a panel of critics who each year draw up a list of the best 50 restaurants in the world. 

Slum priests, jack-of-all-trades in Buenos Aires’ villas

08-08-2020 09:59 Local church leaders take on all tasks, as they help to keep residents and their communities afloat during the coronavirus pandemic.

G20 carbon 'food-print' highest in meat-loving nations, says report

15-07-2020 23:28 Argentina tops the list of G20 nations with a diet exceeding climate thresholds nearly five-fold, followed by Canada, Brazil, the United States, Russia and Australia, says new report comparing carbon emissions from food consumption.

Hungry neighbours cook together as virus roils Latin America

19-06-2020 19:56 Economic shutdowns have forced poor Peruvians, Argentines and tens of millions of others to fall back on community-based food kitchens, unseen in large numbers since crises like Peru’s 1990s civil war or Argentina’s financial crash two decades ago.

Revolutionising the global food system

13-06-2020 09:59 Franco Fubini, CEO of food and veg supplier Natoora, says people have become disconnected from their plates. In an interview with the Times, he explains the importance of fresh produce – and how his firm adapted to thrive amid the coronavirus pandemic.

by Bruna Fontevecchia

Food producers’ exports ravaged by coronavirus

11-04-2020 09:54 Produce-rich Argentina’s exports have plunged, particularly to China, amid coronavirus worldwide lockdown.

Desperate hunt for food by Peru's poor amid virus quarantine

08-04-2020 07:21 Pandemic has spotlighted the wide gap between rich and poor in Peru. Economists say a looming recession worse than any since World War II could push the continent's long-suffering poor into even more dire circumstances.

In Quilmes, military steps in to assist food deliveries, hospitals

25-03-2020 19:38 Army steps in on the outskirts of Buenos Aires in bid to help Argentina's most vulnerable to help curbing the coronavirus pandemic impact on Argentina's most vulnerable persons.

Coronavirus in Argentina: Worst yet to come, quarantine may be extended

24-03-2020 12:03 Extension of nationwide lockdown is "a possibility" admits President Fernández, as experts warn the number of confirmed cases will double or treble in the coming weeks as testing is decentralised.

Fernández vows to clamp down on virus price gouging

17-03-2020 12:04 Peronist president says he will put "AFIP to work against speculators," saying he will not "tolerate rogues taking us for fools."

Anger as Maduro urges Venezuela's women to have six children

05-03-2020 14:05 Much-criticised president's comments come with his nation gripped by nation-wide food, clothes, and healthcare shortages.

Argentina’s double trouble: reducing poverty and debt

06-02-2020 16:42 President Alberto Fernández launches food coupons as a temporary solution to reduce poverty and hunger among vulnerable populations in Argentina.