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Pairwise Plants Raises $25m Funding to Speed up Crop Innovation

Mar 22, 2018

Pairwise Plants has closed a $25m Series A funding round co-led by Deerfield Management and Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV), the venture capital arm of Monsanto to accelerate crop innovation. Pairwise is an agricultural company focused on ...

Tags: Pairwise, Crop

Sirane Showcases Plastic-Free Compostable Food Pouch at Packaging Innovations Event

Mar 2, 2018

Packaging firm Sirane has exhibited plastic-free compostable food pouch, Earthpouch, at this year’s Packaging Innovations event in the UK. The event is being held between 28 February and 1 March in Birmingham. Sirane has already ...

Tags: Packaging, Food Pouch

NTU Singapore Scientists Invent New Process to Turn Brewer's Waste Into Liquid Nutrient

Sep 1, 2017

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have used brewery waste to grow yeast required to make beer. A new process has been invented by scientists to turn spent brewery grains into a product that can ...

Tags: Liquid Nutrient, beer

Pegasus Food Futures to Build New Facility in Abu Dhabi

May 31, 2017

Pegasus Food Futures has finalized plans for a new facility in Abu Dhabi. The organisation is aimed at providing solutions to global food supply challenges through operations and innovations in livestock, feed stock and food production. ...

Tags: Pegasus Food, food

Solegear Announces Increase in Business with US-Based Produce Provider

May 11, 2017

Solegear Bioplastic Technologies has announced that it has received an increased annual program from a leading US ready-to-eat produce provider that is expected to generate 400% growth in revenue from this customer in the current year. ...

Tags: Solegear, food packaging

Pegasus Agriculture to Launch Pegasus Food Futures

May 8, 2017

Pegasus Agriculture Group will launch a new organisation, dubbed Pegasus Food Futures, at the upcoming Indoor Ag-Con to provide solutions to global food supply challenges through operations and innovations in livestock, feed stock and food ...

Tags: Pegasus Agriculture Group, Pegasus Food Futures

China to Deepen Reform in Agricultural Sector

Feb 6, 2017

The major problems facing China's agricultural sector are structural ones, mainly on the supply side, according to the document by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council. The document calls for ...

Tags: agricultural sector, structural reform

Oman's Mazoon Dairy to Commence Operations by End 2018

Jan 6, 2017

Oman’s Mazoon Dairy, which is coming up in the Buraimi governorate with an investment of OMR100m ($260m), is slated to become operational in the latter half of 2018. The dairy company has secured a site at Al Sunaynah, located in ...

Tags: Mazoon Dairy, dairy

UK Researchers Apply for GM Wheat Field Trials

Nov 11, 2016

Rothamsted Research has submitted an application on 3 November 2016 to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for permission to carry out GM field trials. The trials will be conducted on the Rothamsted Farm in 2017 and ...

Tags: Wheat Field, Rothamsted Research

China Lays out Plan for Agricultural Modernization

Oct 21, 2016

China aims to achieve "marked progress" in agricultural modernization by 2020, according to a five-year plan released by the State Council Thursday. The country will strive to ensure food security, improve the quality and efficiency of ...

Tags: Agricultural, Agricultural Modernization

Cargill Reports Fiscal 2017 First-Quarter Results

Oct 11, 2016

Cargill reported financial results for the fiscal 2017 first quarter ended 31 August, 2016. Key measures include: Adjusted operating earnings rose 35 percent to $827 million in the first quarter, compared with $611 million in the ...

Tags: Cargill, fiscal results

Cargill, Heifer International Partner to Support Poultry Expansion in China

Sep 20, 2016

A partnership between Cargill Animal Nutrition and Heifer International is enabling the expansion of 450 women-led, family-owned poultry farms in Qingshen, China. These farms will receive chicks, business training and access to nutrition ...

Tags: Cargill Animal Nutrition, Heifer International, poultry expansion

UN Food Agency Leaders Hail U.S. Law Aimed at Boosting Global Food Security, Resilience, Nutrition

Aug 12, 2016

FAO and WFP say law will greatly enhance worldwide efforts to combat hunger and rural poverty 25 July 2016, Rome - Leaders of two United Nations agencies fighting hunger worldwide have applauded new legislation in the United States ...

Tags: WFP, President Obama, rural poverty

Nigeria: Fao Seeks Urgent Funding to Target 385,000 People with Farming Support in Northeast

Aug 12, 2016

$10 million is required to provide emergency agricultural support to internally displaced people and host families 9 August 2016, Rome - Urgent action is needed to provide farming and livelihood support to 385,000 people in parts of ...

Tags: host families, emergency agricultural support, food

Protracted Conflicts Causing Alarming Spikes in Severe Hunger

Aug 12, 2016

Briefs for UN Security Council highlight how millions of people remain trapped in a vicious cycle of violence and hunger Joint FAO-WFP news release 29 July 2016, Rome - Protracted conflicts affecting 17 countries have driven millions ...

Tags: vicious cycle, food insecurity, UN agencies

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