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Proposals to build a more reasoned agri-food chain are often associated with a risk of food insecurity for emerging countries or with deprivation for developed ... Lire la suite...

Established in 1980, Finnfund is a Finnish public investment fund that supports projects led by private institutions in developing countries. The company recent... Lire la suite...

CIRAD has studied the state of the cocoa sector, which is facing a multitude of challenges: climate change, deforestation, poverty, diseases... It is urgent to... Lire la suite...

The French dairy brand is interested in edible oil and vegetable proteins from the Pongamia tree (also known as Milletia Pinnata), processed by Terviva, a young... Lire la suite...

FAO has recently joined forces with the International Bamboo and Rattan Organization (INBAR) to boost the cultivation and use of bamboo in Africa. More than a h... Lire la suite...

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is a subsidiary of the World Bank. Its capital is held by the 185 member countries. It finances and/or acquires stak... Lire la suite...

The seashore is a few dozen kilometers away, but those are salmon swimming in a large saltwater pond in Saitama, a city of one million people located in the s... Lire la suite...

Gaïago, a biotechnology startup, has succeeded in raising 13 million euros to deploy its star product, a revitalizing biostimulant for soils. Already the inven... Lire la suite...

Algeria is a large consumer of wheat, which it traditionally buys from France for 60% of its imports.  The Russian commercial ambitions risk denting this histor... Lire la suite...

Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos have both decided to invest in the company Nature's Fynd, which is likely to go public soon. With Al Gore, they are among the main fin... Lire la suite...

At the Feyzin refinery in southeastern France, a new kind of biofuel is produced from grape marc or lees. These are distilled, dehydrated and mixed with an et... Lire la suite...

The manufacture of cocaine has a strong impact on the environmental quality of natural areas. Its culture nibbles away at wooded areas. If a gram of cocaine c... Lire la suite...

On August 18, the European Union authorized the return of animal proteins and the introduction of insects in feed for pigs and poultry. This relaxation will ... Lire la suite...

Lindsay Matthews, a researcher at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, has conducted experimental work on cattle farms. Based on the observation that c... Lire la suite...

Atlantic salmon accounts for 90% of the world's farmed salmon. Caught or farmed, it is produced at a rate of almost 40 kilos per second, according to Planeto... Lire la suite...

Some farmers have decided to invest in social networks to share the daily life of a farm, to praise the new sustainable agriculture and to reassure consumers ab... Lire la suite...

There is a great deal of work that highlights the impact of agriculture on biodiversity, at least on the surface. According to researchers from INRAE and CNRS... Lire la suite...

On September 16, the price of rapeseed for the production of rapeseed oil passed the €600 per ton mark, compared to €390 a year earlier. Several phenomena ha... Lire la suite...

Land Matrix enters phase 3. This international program tracks the volume of land transactions. It is piloted by members from civil society, research and the pro... Lire la suite...

After vegetable oils and sugar cane, wheat straw is a new alternative fuel to petroleum derivatives. Researchers, supported by the National Renewable Energy Ce... Lire la suite...

The shortage of fertilizer is leading to a drop in production, which could further increase food prices, which have already risen by more than 30% in one year... Lire la suite...

Greeneye Technology, launches a new intelligent spraying equipment. A precision tool, garlic optimizes the use of chemical inputs in crops. The Israeli compa... Lire la suite...

Rather than suffer from drought or other climatic vagaries, researchers at the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INR... Lire la suite...

Today, satellites observe 26 of the 56 climatic variables, hence the importance of their presence in understanding the phenomena that surround us. The Copernic... Lire la suite...

Sustainable development issues often deal with terrestrial issues related to our direct environment such as soil, air or water resources, but there is also anot... Lire la suite...

A collective of academics is making its voice heard in front of the powerful meat lobby to put forward the interest of laboratory meat, an interesting sanitary ... Lire la suite...

Chinese, Russians and Americans are gaining a foothold in Africa. They understood that this continent still has untapped potential. Africa has already welcomed ... Lire la suite...

Deforestation, urbanization and climatic accidents are making life difficult for farmers in northern Rwanda who are trying to exploit their land for beans, swee... Lire la suite...

In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), poverty is on the rise. Women play a pillar role in social organization, between household, family and agricultural t... Lire la suite...

Institutional and private investors have pledged some 12 billion euros over the next five years to restore a strip of African land stretching from Senegal to Dj... Lire la suite...

It is not only people in big cities who dream of a different future. A revolution is taking place, driven by committed and militant individuals who believe in a... Lire la suite...

Nitrogen use is increasing in sub-Saharan Africa relative to phosphate and potash, which would indicate progress in the "green revolution". This is the result o... Lire la suite...

By 2020/2021, North Africa could be the world's largest importer of wheat. This situation, unprecedented in the last three years, is linked in particular to the... Lire la suite...

The company Plenty Inc. specializing in fully robotized vertical indoor agriculture had a difficult start. The coronavirus crisis saved it. The fear of contamin... Lire la suite...

Members of the West African Fertilizer Association (Wafa) built up stocks in anticipation of supply chain disruptions due to Covid-19, and faster than in previo... Lire la suite...

Climate change, aggravated by the disruption of supply chains and export restrictions, is driving up food prices and increasing the risk of food insecurity in 2... Lire la suite...

According to the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC), world cotton stocks in 2019/2020 could reach a level not seen in five years. This is the result... Lire la suite...

The Council of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) has just allocated $176 million in funding for initiatives to adapt agriculture to climate change. In total... Lire la suite...

By crowding animals in confined and unsanitary conditions for slaughter - mixing blood, viscera and excrement - slaughterhouses create an environment that is co... Lire la suite...

According to the FAO, food products, which have been in decline for the past three months, fell by a further 3.4% in April. The decline is 10% compared to Janua... Lire la suite...

Natural rubber is one of the major victims of the Covid-19 pandemic because of the fall in world automobile production, which is its main user for the manufactu... Lire la suite...

European agrifood tech start-ups have raised $3.4 billion - for 419 financing operations - an increase of 70% compared to 2019. The year 2020 will be less rosy,... Lire la suite...

The World Bank has approved $500 million in response to the consequences of the locust invasion in Africa and the Middle East. This financial assistance include... Lire la suite...

The stockpiling of bread and flour by worried consumers during this coronavirus crisis may have led people to believe that the world was running out of wheat. E... Lire la suite...

Bananas are the symbol of globalisation. Trade in this fruit began 130 years ago. It generates an annual turnover of $25 billion. 20 million tons of bananas wer... Lire la suite...

"Belgians are invited to eat more chips, in Britain farmers have poured millions of pints of milk into the ground instead of turning it into butter. In Iran, mi... Lire la suite...

The United Nations Nutrition Report 2020 warns of a likely doubling of hungry people as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. Their number would increase from 130 mi... Lire la suite...

In 2019, Egypt consolidated for the second consecutive year its position as the world's leading exporter of oranges. According to data collected by Agribusiness... Lire la suite...

The outbreak of the covide-19 epidemic in U.S. slaughterhouses resulted in the destruction of 7 million hogs during this quarter. That's nearly 500 million kilo... Lire la suite...

McKinsey & Company identified in a new report -  Agriculture and Climate Change: Reducing emissions through improved farming practices- 25 measures to reduc... Lire la suite...

The International Grains Council (IGC) has lowered its estimate of world wheat production in 2020/2021. The world harvest would be reduced by 4 million tonnes t... Lire la suite...

In 2019/2020, the world coffee market is expected to record a slight surplus of 1.95 million bags compared to a deficit of 474,000 bags previously forecast by t... Lire la suite...

We know that soaring bread prices or food shortages cause revolutions. If the Covid-19 crisis has (still) caused only a few supply disruptions - without serious... Lire la suite...

While many of their employees are victims of Covid-19, many slaughterhouses are closing their doors and the meat shelves of supermarkets remain desperately empt... Lire la suite...

For the time being, the planet is not in danger of suffering from food shortages and agriculture from production crises. However, the protectionist measures tak... Lire la suite...

"There is no reason to have a food price crisis like the one we had in 2007. (The world) has enough food available, it's just a logistical problem," said Maximo... Lire la suite...

In response to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on agriculture and food, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will spend $15.5 billion in the initial ph... Lire la suite...

Agriculture is the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases after fossil fuels. Half of its environmental footprint is due to gas emissions from livestock far... Lire la suite...

The COVID-19 crisis will double the number of people suffering from a food crisis to 265 million, according to an estimate by the United Nations Food Programme ... Lire la suite...

Russia has announced a suspension of exports of wheat, barley, maize and rye until 1 July to protect its domestic market from shortages due to the coronavirus c... Lire la suite...

In Wisconsin and Ohio, farmers dump thousands of litres of fresh milk into lagoons and manure pits. A farmer in Idaho dug huge ditches to bury a million pounds ... Lire la suite...

Global locust damage could cost $8.5 billion, according to the World Bank, if swift action is not taken to control the invasion. Currently, locust swarms have a... Lire la suite...

Containment and quarantine measures and border closures, by restricting the movement of bees, are likely to have an impact on global agricultural production. In... Lire la suite...

The coronavirus crisis reveals one of the Gulf States' greatest vulnerabilities: they import 90% of their food while global food chains are disrupted. The begin... Lire la suite...

Having received nearly 500 entries from startups and academic R&D teams across the globe, applicants to the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP’s) ... Lire la suite...

Ukraine is one of the world’s top grain producers. The Eastern European country earned the nickname “Europe’s breadbasket.” Just how extensive Ukraine’s farmlan... Lire la suite...

The coronavirus pandemic poses a real risk of food shortages on the world market, according to the FAO, WHO and WTO. The UN organisations fear a wave of stock r... Lire la suite...

Global coffee consumption is likely to fall considerably as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. This was estimated by the International Coffee Organization (I... Lire la suite...

According to Rabobank, the coronavirus pandemic and the fall in oil prices have led to a 9% decrease in the prices of agricultural products in 30 days. Sugar ha... Lire la suite...

Lockdowns and panic food buying due to the coronavirus pandemic could ignite world food inflation even though there are ample supplies of staple grains and oils... Lire la suite...

Some governments are moving to secure domestic food supplies during the conoravirus pandemic. Kazakhstan, one of the world’s biggest shippers of wheat flour, ba... Lire la suite...

According to the International Grains Council (IGC), the global production of grains could reach 2.22 billion tonnes, i.e. a slight rise of 2% compared with las... Lire la suite...

The Canadian agtech startup Transport Genie is a precision monitoring company that is focused on monitoring microclimate conditions as animals are being transpo... Lire la suite...

Benson Hill, the crop genetics startup based out of St Louis, Missouri, is working to improve the sustainability credentials of the leading source of plant-base... Lire la suite...

In East Africa the Coronavirus pandemic is holding up the fight against the swarms of locusts that have been devastating crops in several countries of the regio... Lire la suite...

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...

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...

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...

$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...

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...

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TerraSentia, one of the smallest agricultural robots on the market, is all the rage in the US. At 12.5 inches in width and about the same in height, this 30-pou... Lire la suite...

Growth in consumption of palm oil is showing no sign of letting up. Following growth equivalent to two times that of production in 2018/2019, global consumption... Lire la suite...