Just a few weeks ago, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and other partners launched the Think.Eat.Save. Reduce Your Foodprint campaign in support of the SAVE FOOD Initiative to reduce food loss ...
Tags: Sustainability, Packaging, Tackle Waste
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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Focus Lighting is a New York City based architectural lighting design firm founded by Paul Gregory in 1986. Focus Lighting designed the Entel Tower in Santiago, Chile, which was the first automated color-changing exterior lighting display ...
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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 China Petroleum Pipeline (CPP) company is said to be close to winning a $650-million contract to build a pipeline linking the southern oilfields in Maysan province to the al-Fao [al Faw] storage depots. The chief of state-run Maysan ...
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Global food commodity prices dropped back in 2012, with dairy and sugar showing the sharpest declines, new figures from the United Nations' Food & Agriculture Organisation show. Despite ongoing concerns around rising food prices, the UN ...
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Toys R Us Inc,.the world's largest dedicated toy retailer,reported same-store sales in the U.S.fell 1.8 percent in December. The stakes were high for the retailer this holiday season as it has yet to return to being a public company after ...
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An undisclosed amount was invested in PrettySecrets;an online brand which offers lingerie,nightwear,swimwear,shape wear&accessories.The investment was led by Rehan Yar Khan,IAN member and Farooq Oomerbhoy,FAO Ventures and co-nvested by ...
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Brazil and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) signed a new South-South cooperation agreement worth $20 million that aims to channel Brazilian expertise in cotton production to other developing countries. The ...
Hazard analysis and critical control points, or HACCP, is a systematic preventive approach to food safety and pharmaceutical safety that identifies physical, allergenic, chemical, and biological hazards in production processes that can ...
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American biotechnology firm Senomyx has announced that the company's certain flavor modifiers have positive determinations regarding safety from the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives(JECFA). The company said that it has ...
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has entered into an agreement with the government of the Equatorial Guinea, under which FAO will invest $3m to develop poultry farming in the country over three years. This ...
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The Mozambican government is mulling on the proposal to roll out an agricultural insurance policy in order to serve the peasants of the country. It is expected that the government's proposal will receive full backing of the Mozambique ...
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In a joint study, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Russian government forecast an increase in Russia's volume of felled logs and growth in its output of lumber, wood-based panels, pulp, and paper until 2030. In the best ...
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A three-year groundwater quality assessment programme in Cyprus found increased arsenic levels in drinking water.A novel field-based arsenic speciation separation technique determined that arsenate was the predominant species. The ...
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