Month: December 2019

Despite good rainfall, the Horn of Africa could suffer from an invasion of pilgrim locusts, according to the FAO. Numbers of these insects are on the increase i... Lire la suite...

On December 13, 2010, Le Figaro  reproduced an article first published in the journal Nature contradicting all the received truths concerning bio agriculture, w... Lire la suite...

In collaboration with the FAO and UNDP, Germany has launched an initiative to fast track actions against climate change in the agriculture and land use sectors ... Lire la suite...

On 11 December, the OCP Foundation kicked off a project relating to the development of a soil fertility map, in partnership with the Ghanaian Ministry of Food a... Lire la suite...

According to the 4th International Biostimulants Conference which took place in Barcelona in November, the global biostimulants market should reach turnover of ... Lire la suite...

According to the Global Farmland Index 2019 by the property company Savills, the price of farmland has increased 12% per year worldwide over the past 16 years. ... Lire la suite...

The economic boom in West Africa is related to the agriculture and agri-food sectors. Feeding 500 million increasingly urbanised Africans by 2030 has kickstarte... Lire la suite...

The European water vole tunnels into the soil, where it reproduces and feeds on plant roots. Populations have reached levels which have resulted in significant ... Lire la suite...

On 2 December, 7,000 New York inmates ate something other than meatloaf or burgers for Monday lunch. They ate veggie chilli. 11 prisons and correctional facilit... Lire la suite...

The global cereal harvest will reach a historic high in 2019, totalling 2.7 billion tonnes, i.e. 2.1% more than 2018. According to FAO, this increase is due to ... Lire la suite...

FIRA (the International Forum of Agricultural Robotics) was held in Toulouse between 9 and 11 December. Here are some of the robots in the spotlight at this yea... Lire la suite...

Unlike the most pessimistic forecasts on the negative effects of global warming, the world’s agricultural production has increased over the past 20 years and sh... Lire la suite...

Hundreds of thousands of species of micro-algae float in stretches of water the world over. Only a tiny fraction of them have been studied. We cannot begin to i... Lire la suite...

As part of a project subsidised by the Danish Ministry of Agriculture, the big cooperative supply and storage group, DLG Group, the dairy cooperative Arla Foods... Lire la suite...

According to the 'Union des Industries de la Fertilisation' (UNIFA), shipments of mineral and organo-mineral fertilisers reached a total of only 8.7 million ton... Lire la suite...

In the first quarter of 2019, the OCP Group achieved revenue of MAD 42.4 billion (approx. €3.8 billion), an increase of 3% compared to the same period 2018. Thi... Lire la suite...

Meat-free products, laboratory-cultivated meat, seafood substitutes and insect protein - are they the future of food? Food giants, from Tyson to Cargill, are pr... Lire la suite...

Nestlé hopes to grind out an extra $250 million thanks to its alliance with Starbucks. Last May, the Swiss giant bought global perpetual sales rights for Starbu... Lire la suite...

Eager to improve the living standards of small-scale farmers - their income is less than half of that in the city - the Chinese government decided to allow vill... Lire la suite...

A study commissioned by the European Parliament indicates that whilst the growth in product demand should increase to tackle population growth, it will be at th... Lire la suite...

The development of mixed crop-livestock farming at a local level is a real possibility. Cereal growers could plant pasture to sell grass to livestock farmers. I... Lire la suite...