Nestlé USA has entered into a partnership with Rabobank and RocketSpace to support startups for the Terra Food + Ag Tech Accelerator program. Nestlé will collaborate with Terra and other corporate collaborators to select and ...
Tags: Food Industry, Nestle
Land O'Lakes has acquired Vermont Creamery, a creamery and artisanal cheese and butter-maker in Websterville, Vermont, US. Vermont Creamery Co-Founders Bob Reese and Allison Hooper and Land O'Lakes, Inc. President and CEO Chris Policinski ...
Tags: Land O'Lakes, artisanal cheese, butter
Organto Foods has announced that it has entered into a letter of intent (LOI) with a Mexico-based privately owned real estate investment management to form a new food and agricultural joint venture. The proposed joint venture will be ...
Food testing services provider Eurofins Scientific has agreed to acquire 65% majority stake in Vietnamese food testing company Sac Ky Hai Ang (EDC-HD) for an undisclosed amount. EDC-HD, a merger between the Ho Chi Minh City Center of ...
Tags: Food Testing, Eurofins Scientific
The World Trade Organization and the Food and Agricultural Organization are joining hands to step up collaboration over trade and food security, as well as other issues such as functioning of international grain markets. As part of the ...
Working at the National Cotton Council of America since the last 12 years, Gary Adams has been named the next president of the cotton body. He takes over from Mark Lange, who retires in February, 2015 and will be officially anointed ...
Tags: cotton body, Cotton Council, Textile
Rice husk waste once headed for landfills is now helping the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. produce fuel-efficient tires. Goodyear says it will utilize ash left over from the burning of rice husks to produce electricity as an environmentally ...
Tags: Rice Waste, Silica, Accessories
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has created the Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research (FFAR). The new foundation, which will operate as a non-profit body, will take the help of public and private resources to ...
Tags: USDA, FFAR, Agriculture
The China Green Food Development Center (abbreviated CGFDC) is the first agency in the People's Republic of China to oversee organic food standards. The Center was established in November 1992, and has been launched its work around 1990, ...
Good agricultural practice (GAP) are specific methods which, when applied to agriculture, create food for consumers or further processing that is safe and wholesome. While there are numerous competing definitions of what methods constitute ...
Global Logistic Properties Limited (“GLP”), the leading provider of modern logistics facilities in China, Japan and Brazil, is expanding its relationship with COFCO, China’s largest supplier of agricultural and food ...
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Victoria University has a big act to follow. At last year’s IAPRI World Packaging Conference, a record 170 delegates from 24 countries were represented. There were 93 presentations for the oral and poster categories, produced by some ...
Tags: environmental performance of packaging, packaging ecodesign tool
A coalition of agricultural organizations led by the National Pork Producers Council is likely to oppose a final Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement if it includes Japan but that country doesn’t agree to comprehensive ...
Tags: Agriculture, TPP Deal
While climate change negotiators struggle to agree on ways to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, they have paid inadequate attention to other greenhouse gases associated with livestock, according to an analysis by an international ...
Tags: Climate Change, Livestock
The Ministry of Agriculture of Paraguay (MAG) has announced plans to review the Government’s plan for cotton in the country, and add new dynamics to implement the cotton campaign successfully. According to a statement issued ...