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In Canada, where food is abundant and the population is affluent, food waste is estimated at $27 billion a year, according to the Value Chain Management Centre in Guelph, Ont.

The local food movement is poised to become a major challenge for big food makers in 2013, according to a recent report cited in an article

The owners of a small grocery store help farmers put fewer miles on their food

Love it or hate it, the local food movement has gone mainstream.

Farm Boy, the Ottawa grocery chain whose focus is fresh departments and prepared foods, opened a new store this week in Kingston, Ont.

The Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association presented its merchandiser of the year award to Loblaw Cos. at its 69th annual convention held Sept. 18-21 in Naples, Fla.

Tomato farmers Tony and Karen Legault have an unusually close and fruitful relationship with their main customer, Calgary Co-op

Online grocery shoppers in the U.K. may soon have to pay a premium for convenience. Delivery charges could rise to £15 per order, up from the usual £5, according to retail experts interviewed by

The organic food aisle is often thought of as the domain of the super health conscious.

The two bodies responsible for administering complementary–but slightly overlapping–food safety programs for Canada’s fresh produce industry say they are making “good progress” on implementing a harmonized certification program.

On Tuesday, Nations Fresh Food Market "where East meets West" in a high-end designer concept store opened in Vaughan, a city north of Toronto.

Quebec consumers will have an easier time buying made-in-Quebec foods at grocery stores, should the upstart Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) win the upcoming Quebec election.On the campaign trail, CAQ leader François Legault unveiled an agricultural policy that includes a promise his government would