Year: 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...

Whereas the average size of organic farms in Germany is 48 hectares, some of them have surface areas of between 4,000 and 6,000 hectares. The latter are often c... Lire la suite...

According to the World Bank report on agricultural commodities, even if their prices are stabilising, the reasons for the downward pressure are still very much ... Lire la suite...

This week, Burger King launched its Rebel Whopper in 25 European countries, a vegetarian hamburger that claims to imitate, almost to perfection, the appearanc... Lire la suite...

The onion occupies an important role in the economic and political life of India.  The climate crisis – an extreme drought followed by a violent monsoon season ... Lire la suite...

Since 2018, the African swine fever epidemic has been rife in Asian countries. Although harmless to people, this viral disease decimates more herds than any oth... Lire la suite...

The global production of coffee is expected to drop very slightly (by 0.9%), in 2019/2020 to a total of 167.4 million bags, according to the International Coffe... Lire la suite...

Essential for living organisms to function and indispensable for good yields in agriculture, phosphorus could disappear due to increasing use in farming.  "Reco... Lire la suite...

A very recent survey by two bodies specialising in the funding of start-ups – idea2scale (www.ideatoscale.com ) and Agfunder (www.agfunder.com ) – involving 50 ... Lire la suite...

According to the International Tripartite Rubber Council (ITRC) – made up of Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia – global production of this commodity is set to fa... Lire la suite...

In Japan, 200 vertical farms produce thousands of tonnes of vegetables every year in towers around ten storeys high. Around the world, there are numerous plans ... Lire la suite...

If you are exasperated by the now 15-month-long Sino-American trade war and its ups and downs, here is, finally, a piece of good news: the birth of the US-China... Lire la suite...

The Ethiopian government has announced that it is expecting offers from European and Asian companies with a view to forming a joint venture to complete the fert... Lire la suite...

According to the Chinese Academy of Science, researchers have isolated the Chinese strain of African swine fever and have decoded its structure. It consists of ... Lire la suite...

The global market for hummus currently represents annual sales of $2 billion. It is expected to grow to $6.7 billion in 2027. In the United States, the market h... Lire la suite...

The World Food Programme (WFP) has made the development of new tools a priority in order to achieve the objective of zero hunger in the world. The most spectacu... Lire la suite...

Canadian startup Chinova Bioworks, has launched two new natural plant-based preservatives for the dairy and alternative dairy industry.  These new preservatives... Lire la suite...

Already the world’s leading producer of arabica, is Brazil about to overtake Vietnam, the world leader for robusta? According to specialists, it is only a matte... Lire la suite...

Africa Rice, a pan-African rice research organization, has developed an improved rice parboiling technology that improves its nutritional value and flavour. Thi... Lire la suite...

To address the challenges agriculture must face, resulting from many environmental constraints including climate change, soil erosion and biodiversity loss, dif... Lire la suite...

Télécharger le dossier en PDF   Contrary to all predictions, in the 21st century, agriculture has emerged as one of the most pressing issues of our tim... Lire la suite...