Richer countries are making progress in eliminating harmful trans fat from diets by next year, but poorer nations with the highest toll of heart disease due to the intake of such fats are lagging, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
Activist investor Bluebell Capital Partners Ltd has asked miner and commodity trader Glencore Plc to separate its thermal coal business at a time when global mining firms have come under pressure to move to cleaner energy sources.
Investors managing $12.4 trillion in assets on Tuesday called for governments and companies to accelerate the shift to promoting healthier food and drink to help fix what they described as a "global nutrition crisis".
Rains were below average last week in most of Ivory Coast's cocoa-growing regions, with more needed to ensure the harvest is strong in February and March, farmers said on Monday.
A trade group representing some of America's biggest baked goods companies is urging the Biden administration to ratchet back its biofuel ambitions, arguing that using fuel made from crops could raise the cost of donuts, bread and other foods.