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,.
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.
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.
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.
$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.
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.
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.
In 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.
In 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.
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 entails providing customers with a.
A 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.
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 change. In a.
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-pound.
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 is set to exceed.
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 Europe. This 27.4.
The latest review for the Malabo Declaration, adopted five years ago, is reporting mixed results. According to the biannual Declaration review, published on 10 February by the African Union (AU),.
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AeroFarms – the vertical farming group based out on New Jersey, US TIPA Corp – the Israeli compostable packaging startup Bowery Farming – the vertical farming startup out of New York Agrivi – the.
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 these insecticides are eliminated, what.
The fourth edition of Paris Grain Day welcomed 250 international grain sector players and experts. Their discussions of the drivers of the agricultural raw materials market concluded that the outlook.
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 broader initiative entitled "Developing local.
The British government recently put before parliament a draft agriculture bill the main thrusts of which were explained by Theresa Villiers, secretary of state for agriculture, at the Oxford Farming.
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 fruit and vegetables fresher.
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. The result is a record.
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 months, palm has.
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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 emerged and been developed.
Agriculture is now facing a major challenge: ensuring sufficient food production for a growing population whilst protecting the environment. To limit the expansion of agricultural land, a potential option is.
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 enough to cover domestic requirements..
While Australia has been experiencing a significant drought for several months leading to enormous fires, the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences has published the results of.
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's Family Hub Refrigerator and.
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 billion consumers..
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 cocoa stands at.
The World Food Programme (WFP) has just announced that 45 million people are facing acute food insecurity in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The situation within the SADC that.
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 Nestlé and Cargill’s appeals.
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 the Internal Trade Development Authority.
During the National Agricultural Accounts Committee (CCAN) which met on 10 January 2020, INSEE published provisional national agricultural accounts which confirmed an economic decline: a -7.8% drop in added value.
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 million euros. The company’s objective.
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. Suffice it to.
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 of mushrooms, out.
According to a Juniper Research study, blockchain and the internet of things (IoT) are poised to revolutionise the food industry. Blockchain could reduce food fraud by $31 billion by 2024.
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.
At COP 25, the FAO presented its report on arid land worldwide established from satellite data. Two interesting figures emerged, which suggest a less “catastrophic” vision of aridity: The surface.
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 closed..
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 has promised to plant.
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 have made this a very.
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 several setback..
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 fast food.
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 in numerous countries,.
On December 13, 2010, Le Figaro reproduced an article first published in the journal Nature contradicting all the received truths concerning bio agriculture, which in truth could have a negative.
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 in developing countries. The.
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 and Agriculture (MoFA)..
According to the 4th International Biostimulants Conference which took place in Barcelona in November, the global biostimulants market should reach turnover of $3 billion in 2021 (source: EBIC and Dunham.
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. The company studied.
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 losses for farmers. Population.
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 facilities, most of which are.
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 increased volumes.
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 year’s event: The.
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 imagine the.
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 and their partners Danae.
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 tonnes during the 2018-2019 campaign, down by.
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. This was.
Meat-free products, laboratory-cultivated meat, seafood substitutes and insect protein - are they the future of food? Food giants, from Tyson to Cargill, are preparing for a future where the protein.
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 Starbucks tea and coffee.
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 villages to.
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 the expense of changes to.
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 controlled by.
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 present. And the bank cites,.
This week, Burger King launched its Rebel Whopper in 25 European countries, a vegetarian hamburger that claims to imitate, almost to perfection, the appearance, texture and taste of burgers made.
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 – has drastically.
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 Coffee Organisation (ICO). This.
Essential for living organisms to function and indispensable for good yields in agriculture, phosphorus could disappear due to increasing use in farming. "Recovering phosphorus from the wastewater in treatment plants,.
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 international investment funds active in food.
According to the International Tripartite Rubber Council (ITRC) – made up of Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia – global production of this commodity is set to fall by 800,000 tonnes in.
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 Green.
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 fertiliser plant in Yayu.
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 five layers: outer membrane, capsid,.
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 has exploded,.
Canadian startup Chinova Bioworks, has launched two new natural plant-based preservatives for the dairy and alternative dairy industry. These new preservatives are produced based on a technology using an extract.
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 matter of years. This Brazilian.
Africa Rice, a pan-African rice research organization, has developed an improved rice parboiling technology that improves its nutritional value and flavour. This technology is called GEM, which stands for Grain Quality.
To address the challenges agriculture must face, resulting from many environmental constraints including climate change, soil erosion and biodiversity loss, different types of pollution, and much more besides, the French.
Will Agri est un blog consacré à l’agriculture, plus précisément, comme on a coutume de dire aujourd’hui, à l’agriculture écologiquement intensive et inclusive.
Will Agri is a blog dedicated to agriculture, specifically focusing on what is now commonly referred to as ecologically intensive and inclusive agriculture.
