The Food and Drink Strategy for Asia was developed by Scottish Development International (SDI) in consultation with key stakeholder organisations, including the Scottish Salmon Producers' Organisation.
The Scottish government has unveiled a new six-year food and drink export strategy for the Asia Pacific region.
In Asia, the recent declines in food prices are having the biggest impact.
James Withers, chief executive of Scotland Food and Drink, said that in recent years Scotland had exported more food to Belgium than to the whole of Asia.
In most of Asia and the world today, food problems are narrow or temporary ones. (Ocean fish are an exception.) If we listen to history, to science and to markets, we will solve them.
Andy Rothman , the China Macro Strategist for CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, believes that China is near the peak in food-price inflation and close to the peak in the overall rise in the Consumer Price Index for this cycle.
By contrast, increasing tensions in Asia have nothing to do with the economic downturn or food inflation.
Verghese later moved Olam's headquarters to London, where he developed his ties to the food multinationals, and in 1996 to Singapore to spearhead an expansion into Asia and take advantage of a 10% tax-rate lure the city-state was offering.
Four percent of its sales come from the Asia-Pacific region, where it manufactures straws and plastic containers for food-service operations.
Lucio Tan is accusing the food and beverage giant San Miguel of using dirty tactics to disrupt the operations of his Asia Brewery.
Cary Fowler of the Global Crop Diversity Trust laid out a compelling case to do more to protect endangered food species in advent of climate change, especially in South Asia, where the environment is anticipated to be most fragile.
It aims to help provide Scottish food and drink companies with the resources, knowledge and networks to develop significant sales in the Asia Pacific region.
Shangri-La Asia, which runs 71 luxury hotels around the world, has temporarily stopped importing fresh food from Japan, according to Bloomberg News.
McDonald's, an American fast-food chain has said that fear of SARS, and the Iraqi war, have dented sales in Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
The prawns are contaminated with a substance called nitrofurans - which was banned for use in food production by European countries in the mid-1990s but still used in some areas of south east Asia.
You know, we've got a lot of farmers in the Midwest in the high plains who are really going to have a hard time this year, because in Asia, where the countries have had difficult economic problems, they can't afford to buy our food anymore.
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