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European researchers to focus efforts on eliminating chemical pesticides

Efforts to focus research on accelerating the agroecological transition have come in response to strong demand from public authorities, businesses and society, in both France and Europe. The “Towards a.

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Precision biologics to protect animals

To date, preventing livestock epidemics has largely involved administering a “prophylactic” mix of vaccines, antibiotics or other antimicrobial chemicals. The excessive use of these pharmaceuticals (sometimes as a ploy to.

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

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 $19.8 billion in funds in 2019,.

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Tensions on the sugar market

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 reach 9.44 million tonnes (rather.

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Coronavirus is making an entrance onto agricultural markets

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 wiped out by swine flu over the.

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

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 this.

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The social and economic roots of the war in the Sahel

[inbound_button font_size=”14″ color=”#8d0100″ text_color=”#ffffff” icon=”download” url=”https://willagri.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Dossier-Willagri-03-20-EN-1.pdf” width=”” target=”_blank”]Télécharger le dossier en PDF[/inbound_button] At the start of this decade, France has been at war in the Sahel for seven years, and.

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$138m needed to fight the outbreak of locusts in East Africa

$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 would be used.

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Investment in agtech drops in 2019

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, total investment reached $19.8bn with.

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Quality controls using Artificial Intelligence

Quality controls for agricultural products are a nightmare throughout the entire commercial chain, from producer to consumer, through intermediaries, transporters, supermarkets or restaurants, not to mention potential border crosses. Large.

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