Tensions on the sugar market
19 March 2020The 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
18 March 2020The 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
17 March 2020The 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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$138m needed to fight the outbreak of locusts in East Africa
13 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 would be used.
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Investment in agtech drops in 2019
12 March 2020Investment 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
11 March 2020Quality 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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The emergence of ‘supernutrients’
10 March 2020In the San Francisco laboratory of bio-tech startup Brightseed, computers are analysing thousands of tiny plant samples to discover and extract ‘supernutrients’ or natural compounds. These supernutrients are then harvested.
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Organic: a mirage?
6 March 2020In an iconoclastic report presented to the French senate, senators Alain Houpert and Yannick Botrel stress the lack of transparency in pro-organic public policies and the grey areas in a.
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Food’s turn to be customised
5 March 2020American company Geno Palate sells a slightly unusual service: it enables customers to optimise their food based on their DNA test results. In practice, it entails providing customers with a.
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Drylands take up 41% of the earth’s surface
4 March 2020A study published on 14 February in the journal Science by an international consortium of researchers, including those of the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment.
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