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The future of the agri-food system depends on sobriety

WILLAGRI13 June 2022

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...

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$10 million for cashew processing in Africa

WILLAGRI9 June 2022

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...

Upcycling for food and cosmetics

WILLAGRI7 June 2022

Julien Lesage is a biochemist. He founded Hubcycle in 2016, a recycling startup that has just raised €3.5 million for its business of manufacturing cosmetic or ... Lire la suite...

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Saving the cocoa industry in the long term

WILLAGRI6 June 2022

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...

Danone bets on the virtues of the tree

WILLAGRI9 November 2021

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...

Bamboo’s success in Africa

WILLAGRI9 November 2021

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...

100 million to support OCP’s work in African agriculture

WILLAGRI9 November 2021

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...

Land-based salmon farming in Japan

WILLAGRI9 November 2021

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...

Biostimulants to revitalize soils

WILLAGRI9 November 2021

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...

Russia to conquer the Algerian wheat market

WILLAGRI9 November 2021

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...

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Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos bet on “plant meat

WILLAGRI9 November 2021

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...

Biofuel takes over the 24 Hours of Le Mans racetrack

WILLAGRI9 November 2021

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...

Cocaine promotes deforestation

WILLAGRI9 November 2021

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...

Europe is thinking about a relevant taxation of foodstuffs.

WILLAGRI9 November 2021

Less meat, more fruit and vegetables, this is the objective of the Eurodeputies with their project to regulate the consumption of foodstuffs by a variable VAT a... Lire la suite...

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Controlled return of animal feed with insect meal

WILLAGRI9 November 2021

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...

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Cows can learn to be clean

WILLAGRI9 November 2021

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...

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“Millenial Salmon”, for a more sustainable salmon.

WILLAGRI9 November 2021

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...

GAFA to the rescue of Indian agriculture

WILLAGRI9 November 2021

The Indian government aims to reform Indian agriculture to make it more productive. To this end, it has signed a partnership with the three major American com... Lire la suite...

Farmers, the new influencers

WILLAGRI9 November 2021

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...

The utility of counter-analyses in research

WILLAGRI9 November 2021

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...

Rapeseed price reaches a record level

WILLAGRI9 November 2021

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...

A farm to test the transition to pesticide-free agriculture

WILLAGRI9 November 2021

Researchers from the French institute INRAE are observing an experimental pesticide-free farm, called Domaine d'Epoisses, in the suburbs of Dijon, France. They... Lire la suite...

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CURBING LAND GRABBING BY FOREIGN STATES AND GROUPS

WILLAGRI9 November 2021

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...

Wheat straw, a new biofuel

WILLAGRI9 November 2021

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...

Fertilizer prices under pressure

WILLAGRI9 November 2021

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...

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A smart pulverizer.

WILLAGRI9 November 2021

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...

The SICLEX laboratory, simulates climates

Françoise Aubert24 February 2021

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...

Sentinel Satellite Reads Our Future

Françoise Aubert24 February 2021

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...

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Laboratory fish

Françoise Aubert24 February 2021

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...

The golden future of wheat, corn…and barley

WILLAGRI24 February 2021

Since the summer of 2020, the price curve for cereals has been steadily rising. Various concomitant factors are at play: the Niña phenomenon, the pandemic, Chin... Lire la suite...

Scientists to the rescue of laboratory meat

Françoise Aubert18 February 2021

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...

The Diaspora must bet on Africa

Françoise Aubert18 February 2021

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...

Rwanda, African pioneer of the green transition

Françoise Aubert9 February 2021

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...

Congolese peasant women ambassadors of organic agriculture

Françoise Aubert4 February 2021

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...

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Sahel, the African dream

Françoise Aubert4 February 2021

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...

Emergence of a new peasantry in France

Françoise Aubert4 February 2021

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 consumption increases in Sub-Saharan Africa

WillAgri18 June 2020

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...

North Africa, the world’s largest importer of wheat in 2020/2021

WillAgri16 June 2020

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...

Fear of coronavirus benefits robotic agriculture

WillAgri15 June 2020

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...

West Africa won’t run out of fertilizers

WillAgri12 June 2020

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...

Big weather data boosts agricultural productivity

WillAgri11 June 2020

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...

Worrying increase in cotton stocks

WillAgri9 June 2020

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...

GEF Funds Agricultural Resilience Projects in Africa

WillAgri8 June 2020

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...

Coronavirus could kill the meat industry

WillAgri5 June 2020

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...

FAO food index down 3.4% in April

WillAgri4 June 2020

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...

The rubber victim of the Coronavirus

WillAgri2 June 2020

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...

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Record funding for European agri-tech in 2019

WillAgri29 May 2020

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...

500 million for countries affected by the locust invasion

WillAgri28 May 2020

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 world is drowning in wheat stocks…

WillAgri27 May 2020

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...

Threats to the banana

WillAgri26 May 2020

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...

The globalisation of agricultural trade in question

WillAgri22 May 2020

"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...

Coronavirus Crisis Worsens World Hunger

WillAgri21 May 2020

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...

Egypt still the world’s largest exporter of oranges

WillAgri20 May 2020

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...

Composting of hogs in the United States

WillAgri19 May 2020

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...

25 measures to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions

WillAgri15 May 2020

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

Slight decline in world wheat production

WillAgri14 May 2020

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...

Coronavirus has not slowed down coffee consumption

WillAgri13 May 2020

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...

Outburst of agricultural nationalism

WillAgri12 May 2020

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...

One man’s happiness…

WillAgri8 May 2020

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...

Worse than the coronavirus, the drought…

WillAgri8 May 2020

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...

A global food shortage is unlikely

WillAgri6 May 2020

"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...

Billions rain down on agriculture

WillAgri5 May 2020

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...

Masks: cows too

WillAgri30 April 2020

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...

Towards a worsening of the food crisis

WillAgri29 April 2020

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 is putting a damper on the wheat market

WillAgri28 April 2020

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...

Massive destruction of food in the United States

WillAgri24 April 2020

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...

Locusts threaten African agriculture

WillAgri23 April 2020

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...

Lockdowns threatens crop pollination

WillAgri22 April 2020

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...

Food vulnerability in the Gulf States

WillAgri21 April 2020

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...

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UN Development Programme to measure tech with impact in agrifood

WillAgri20 April 2020

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...

10.6 million acres of illegal farms in Ukraine

WillAgri16 April 2020

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...

UN organizations fear a risk of food shortages in most vulnerable countries

WillAgri15 April 2020

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...

World coffee consumption, a victim of coronavirus

WillAgri14 April 2020

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...

The index of certain agricultural products plummets over 9% in a month

WillAgri10 April 2020

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...

Panic buying may drive world food inflation

WillAgri9 April 2020

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...

Toward Food Nationalism ?

WillAgri8 April 2020

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...

Increase in global grain production, but risks of regional shortages

WillAgri7 April 2020

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...

Tackling Animal Welfare during transport with micro climate sensors

WillAgri3 April 2020

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...

A new variety of soja bean with up to 50% more protein

WillAgri2 April 2020

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...

Efforts to combat locusts hampered by the fight against Covid-19

WillAgri1 April 2020

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...

African banana producers and Covid-19

WillAgri31 March 2020

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...

A tight market for cocoa in 2019/2020

WillAgri27 March 2020

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 meat industry – not pulling its weight in the fight against climate change

WillAgri26 March 2020

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...

European researchers to focus efforts on eliminating chemical pesticides

WillAgri25 March 2020

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...

Precision biologics to protect animals

WillAgri24 March 2020

To date, preventing livestock epidemics has largely involved administering a “prophylactic” mix of vaccines, antibiotics or other antimicrobial chemicals. The e... Lire la suite...

Almost $20 billion of investment in agri-foodtech in 2019

WillAgri20 March 2020

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...

Tensions on the sugar market

WillAgri19 March 2020

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...

Coronavirus is making an entrance onto agricultural markets

WillAgri18 March 2020

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...

Tell us about your microbiome, and we’ll tell you what illnesses you’ll get

WillAgri17 March 2020

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 needed to fight the outbreak of locusts in East Africa

WillAgri13 March 2020

$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 agtech drops in 2019

WillAgri12 March 2020

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 using Artificial Intelligence

WillAgri11 March 2020

Quality controls for agricultural products are a nightmare throughout the entire commercial chain, from producer to consumer, through intermediaries, transporte... Lire la suite...

The emergence of ‘supernutrients’

WillAgri10 March 2020

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...

Organic: a mirage?

WillAgri6 March 2020

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...

Food’s turn to be customised

WillAgri5 March 2020

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...

Drylands take up 41% of the earth’s surface

WillAgri4 March 2020

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...

EU: a trillion-euro Green Deal

WillAgri3 March 2020

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...

#Villagesemence : interview with Loïc Rajjou Professor specialized in Seeds at AgroParisTech

WillAgri2 March 2020

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TerraSentia, the robot that can tell the future for plants

WillAgri28 February 2020

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...

Global consumption of palm oil growing fast

WillAgri27 February 2020

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...