No water for agriculture is slow-moving disaster At least $68 million has been poured down a rat hole thanks a bunch of brainless anarchists who don't seem to understand that the public is not fearful of genetically modified food and sees ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Anterra Capital has invested in food preservation company in the UK, Food Freshness Technology (FFT) to improve the food and agriculture supply chain. The investment will be used for FFT's It'sFresh! ethylene-absorbing technology, which ...
The Local Enterprise Authority (LEA), a statutory authority of the Government of Botswana, and a milk processing firm MilkAfric have inked a memorandum of understanding to empower young dairy entrepreneurs. As per the agreed terms, an ...
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The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Board of Directors approved the launch of a new food traceability center designed to protect and improve the global food supply. The Global Food Traceability Center will serve as an authoritative, ...
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Cattle on the Schilke Ranch in northwestern North Dakota, located on Bakken Shale. Photo: Jacki Schilke In the midst of the domestic energy boom, livestock on farms near oil-and-gas drilling operations nationwide have been quietly falling ...
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VAI (Vormittag Associates), a US-based provider of ERP software, has announced that Colonial Grocers has selected its ‘S2K for Food’ software, in order to improve inventory management processes, increase productivity and gain ...
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On March 4, the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) announced the public release of their report for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) focused on the outcomes of two pilot projects designed to test and study various product ...
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The food production system is out of control and puts small-scale farmers at risk as it is controlled by few major companies, according to a report from Fairtrade Foundation. The report noted that about 500 million smallholder farmers ...
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Food businesses need more government support to create a sustainable food system, according to a new report. Dan Crossley warned the ‘pass the buck’ mentality to food sustainability was harming consumers and the environment ...
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Simple actions by consumers and food retailers can dramatically cut the 1.3 billion tonnes of food lost or wasted each year and help shape a sustainable future, according to a new global campaign to cut food waste launched today by the UN ...
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A global campaign designed to help retailers and consumers cut down on food waste has been launched by the United Nations' Food & Agriculture Organisation and civil society partners. The 'Think. Eat. Save. Reduce Your Footprint' campaign, ...
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The UK government said today (10 July) there needs to be "a culture change" in the food industry to ensure the country can produce food sustainably amid "soaring" population growth. UK farming minister Jim Paice called on all in the ...
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Michigan State University is set to invest millions of dollars in a partnership aimed at making Detroit a world leader in urban agriculture. The partnership,known as Detroit Urban Farming and Agriculture,will see the university working ...
Cattle on the Schilke Ranch in northwestern North Dakota, located on Bakken Shale. Photo: Jacki Schilke In a Brooklyn winery on a sultry July evening, an elegant crowd sips rosé and nibbles trout plucked from the gin-clear streams ...
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In March 2010, Michelle Obama stood on a stage in Washington and leveled a challenge at the food industry's biggest players. "We need you all to step it up," she told a meeting of the Grocery Manufacturers Association. Just a month earlier, ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food