The Netherlands has installed floating solar panels on sandpit lakes and artificial lakes. The one at Bomhpofsplas, close to Zwolle, is set to be the largest in... Lire la suite...
The latest review for the Malabo Declaration, adopted five years ago, is reporting mixed results. According to the biannual Declaration review, published on 10 ... Lire la suite...
For the 2nd year in a row Willagri is a partner of #villagesemence at #SIA20. First panel with Pierre Jacquemot, Academic and diplomat and Michel Eddi, CEO of ... Lire la suite...
AeroFarms – the vertical farming group based out on New Jersey, US
TIPA Corp – the Israeli compostable packaging startup
Bowery Farming – the vertical farming... Lire la suite...
Chemical insecticides face criticism and some have been banned, including a growing number of neonicotinoids that cannot be used in the European Union. But if t... Lire la suite...
The fourth edition of Paris Grain Day welcomed 250 international grain sector players and experts. Their discussions of the drivers of the agricultural raw mate... Lire la suite...
Slow Food, an international NGO whose aims include preserving local food cultures, recently launched a conservation farming academy in East Africa as part of a ... Lire la suite...
The British government recently put before parliament a draft agriculture bill the main thrusts of which were explained by Theresa Villiers, secretary of state ... Lire la suite...
The two largest German retail chains, Edeka and Rewe, are testing a spray-on protective film for fruit and vegetables. It is edible and keeps fragile fresh frui... Lire la suite...
The Australian bushfires have burned millions of hectares of land and devastated an arable and livestock sector that has been struggling with drought for years.... Lire la suite...
On 28 January, palm oil prices recorded a historic drop of 10%, the highest daily fall in 11 years, noted the Agritel agricultural strategies firm. In recent mo... Lire la suite...
Alternative protein start-ups have had a very successful 2019. The industry had its first IPO, its first unicorns and a series of new products which have emerge... Lire la suite...
Agriculture is now facing a major challenge: ensuring sufficient food production for a growing population whilst protecting the environment. To limit the expans... Lire la suite...
The Russian Ministry of Agriculture plans to limit wheat exports to 20 million tonnes in 2020. The Russian authorities fear that current availability is not eno... Lire la suite...
While Australia has been experiencing a significant drought for several months leading to enormous fires, the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Eco... Lire la suite...
At the CES 2020, both Samsung and LG exhibited a new generation model of refrigerator that recognises food thanks to the use of artificial intelligence. Samsung... Lire la suite...
The food sector in India is the focus of renewed interest for start-ups and big groups alike. There are 150 million farmers, 40 million retailers and over one b... Lire la suite...
Here is how the agricultural commodities markets have behaved for the crops most widely produced in Africa:
Cocoa: on the futures market in London, a tonne of ... Lire la suite...
The World Food Programme (WFP) has just announced that 45 million people are facing acute food insecurity in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). ... Lire la suite...
The United States Supreme Court recently indicated that it would ask for the advice of the Solicitor General, Noel Francisco, to rule on the admissibility of Ne... Lire la suite...
The Egyptian government plans to launch an agricultural raw materials stock exchange in the coming years. The announcement was made by Ibrahim Ashmawy, head of ... Lire la suite...
During the National Agricultural Accounts Committee (CCAN) which met on 10 January 2020, INSEE published provisional national agricultural accounts which confir... Lire la suite...
After an initial funding round worth 3 million euros in 2015, the French company Naïo Technologies, a specialist in farming robots, has raised another 14 millio... Lire la suite...
Hundreds of thousands of microalgae float on the surface of the world's seas and oceans. Only a fraction of them have been studied. The findings are amazing. Su... Lire la suite...
US specialists have called 2019 the year of the mushroom, labelling it the "It product" of the year just ended. The consumption of the ten highest-selling types... Lire la suite...
According to a Juniper Research study, blockchain and the internet of things (IoT) are poised to revolutionise the food industry. Blockchain could reduce food f... Lire la suite...
Global food product prices hit their highest levels for two years at the end of the year mainly due to the prices of meat and vegetable oils. The FAO's price in... Lire la suite...
At COP 25, the FAO presented its report on arid land worldwide established from satellite data. Two interesting figures emerged, which suggest a less “catastrop... Lire la suite...
6 December 2019 will certainly enter the history books as the date that sustainable fishing ended. On this day, the final wild cod farm in the Gulf of Alaska cl... Lire la suite...
Political parties in developed countries have made various promises to plant billions of trees. And many private companies have also got in on the act. EasyJet ... Lire la suite...
Will meat consumption peak, like we used to think about peak oil? Noisy and passionate vegan demonstrations along with concerns for health and the environment h... Lire la suite...
As we know, the worldwide goods trade has fell by 2.4% in 2019, as a result of a resurgence in protectionism. Service trade growth, meanwhile, has suffered a se... Lire la suite...
Ford is trying to do its part to combat climate change by recycling coffee waste from McDonald's into car parts. The carmaker will collect food waste from the f... Lire la suite...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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