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 last year. The production of.
The Canadian agtech startup Transport Genie is a precision monitoring company that is focused on monitoring microclimate conditions as animals are being transported. It’s developed bespoke IoT sensors and a real-time event-driven.
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-based protein: soy. It has developed a.
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 region for months. This.
Faced with the health crisis associated with the Covid-19 pandemic, African banana companies have taken action and are rigorously implementing all the health recommendations made by the governments of producer.
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). According to them, global production should.
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 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change..
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.
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.
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,.
