Faced with the health crisis associated with the Covid-19 pandemic, African banana companies have taken action and are rigorously implementing all the health re... Lire la suite...
At the round table held on 27 February at the Paris International Agricultural Show, the Foundation for World Agriculture and Rurality (Fondation pour l’Agricul... Lire la suite...
In 2019/2020, the world cocoa market could see an 85,000-tonne bean deficit. The announcement was made on Friday by the International Cocoa Organization (Icco).... Lire la suite...
The world food industry, from agriculture to the agri-food sector, is responsible for 25 to 30% of greenhouse gas emissions, according to the United Nations Int... Lire la suite...
Efforts to focus research on accelerating the agroecological transition have come in response to strong demand from public authorities, businesses and society, ... Lire la suite...
To date, preventing livestock epidemics has largely involved administering a “prophylactic” mix of vaccines, antibiotics or other antimicrobial chemicals. The e... Lire la suite...
Hundreds of hectares of miscanthus - a perennial herbaceous grass native to Africa and South Asia - could be used to manufacture parts for the automotive indust... Lire la suite...
Agfunder, a global platform specialising in agri-foodtech, has just published its 2019 report. Salient points are as follow:
The sector raised a total of... Lire la suite...
The International Sugar Organization (ISO) has forecast the greatest sugar deficit of the past 11 years for the 2019/2020 season. It expects the deficit to reac... Lire la suite...
The coronavirus crisis is causing instability in agricultural markets. Following China’s highly pro-active policy to rebuild its pork herd, 40% of which was wip... Lire la suite...
The American startup Viome is attracting investors. It has collected $25 million in the space of a week and has $45 million in the bank (it hopes to increase th... Lire la suite...
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At the start of this decade, France has been at war in the Sahel for seven years, and it is difficult to see a way out of the... Lire la suite...
$138m is needed to fight an outbreak of locusts in East Africa, according to the FAO. This represents almost double last month’s call for $76m. The funding wou... Lire la suite...
Investment in new agricultural and food product technologies dropped by 5% in 2019, mainly driven by a decline in funding for delivery services. This year, tota... Lire la suite...
Quality controls for agricultural products are a nightmare throughout the entire commercial chain, from producer to consumer, through intermediaries, transporte... Lire la suite...
In the San Francisco laboratory of bio-tech startup Brightseed, computers are analysing thousands of tiny plant samples to discover and extract ‘supernutrients’... Lire la suite...
The 2020 edition of Le Déméter, a yearly survey of agriculture, food products and development in France, Europe and throughout the world, has just been publishe... Lire la suite...
In an iconoclastic report presented to the French senate, senators Alain Houpert and Yannick Botrel stress the lack of transparency in pro-organic public polici... Lire la suite...
American company Geno Palate sells a slightly unusual service: it enables customers to optimise their food based on their DNA test results. In practice, it enta... Lire la suite...
A study published on 14 February in the journal Science by an international consortium of researchers, including those of the French National Research Institute... Lire la suite...
The European Union is poised to spend one trillion euros over a decade on its Green Deal. The plan aims to accelerate sustainable development and combat climate... Lire la suite...
Following on from the Willagri report "Empowering women in rural Africa", here is the story of two women-focused development projects in Cameroon and Burkina Fa... Lire la suite...