Agricultural And Food Products Articles & Analysis
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The project has as its overall aim to increase climate resilient agricultural productivity and food security, with a specific objective to increase the water productivity and profitability of smallholder farmers in Mozambique, prioritizing small (family sector) farmers to increase food and nutritional security. ...
Pâtes Warda is a subsidiary of the Rose Blanche Group, one of Tunisia’s leading agrifood organisations, involved in the selection, transformation, and marketing of wheat and its derivatives, as well as animal food products. The group operates across 17 production sites and has 33 subsidiaries, employing a workforce of 4,000 employees. Clarke Energy has provided a total of 15MWe to ...
There is an ever-increasing need for real time and onsite detection for risk related substances (e.g. pesticides, bacteria and antibiotics) and authenticity in agrifood products. Food quality, food frauds and food scandals are becoming a major issue these days. When it comes to authenticity of food, it allows consumers to get the actual value (what they pay for) and increases their overall level ...
Farmers have been growing food for generations without using farm management software. But in today’s fast-paced and highly competitive food production landscape, farm management software, or FMS, is critical to success.Why Use Farm Management Software? ...
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At the 2021 Cool Farm Alliance Annual General Meeting, Hal Hamilton, Co-Founder at the Sustainable Food Lab, moderated a thought-provoking session on “Enabling change – leverage points to scale regenerative agriculture and GHG emission reductions” with leading stakeholders from the agri-food industry and members of the Cool Farm Alliance: Luc Beerens, Global Sustainable ...
Plant’s power: 150 Nm3/h Daily Feeding: 27 t cow manure, 14 t sewage sludge, 8 t agrofood industry wastes, 5 t crops, 3 t cereal dust Goal: increase the gas production and improve the viscosity To see video, please click ...
On the 4th November, MP's voted down Agriculture Bill amendments aimed at protecting British food and farming standards. ...
With more people getting information online, Leanna Sweha from AgStart has just published an article about the role social media plays to educate people about technologies to make our agrifood system more productive, efficient, sustainable and secure. They focused on how WaterBit is a good example of this. The article is titled, “Capitalizing on a New Public Awareness of ...
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Fiona Turner, Co-Founder & CEO of agtech start-up Bitwise Agronomy, talks about her vision for agriculture, opportunity, and tech in Tasmania and how the Farmers2Founders Bootcamp is helping her achieve this Bitwise Agronomy is an innovative agtech company that aims to give time back to farmers and viticulturists. ...
Approximately a year ago, I entered the plant phenotyping arena and in my first blog for our company posed the following ...
This customer is a leading global integrated supply chain manager and processor of agricultural products and food ingredients, supplying various products across 16 platforms in 65 countries. It owns the largest flour food processing plants in Nigeria. We provide EPC integrated solutions for them since 2012, and ...
The need for such ERP solutions stems from key differences between the nutritional supply chain and those of other industries. In the agriculture, feed and food industries, the availability and price of vital raw materials is inherently volatile. ...
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Agricultural waste biomass generated from agricultural production and food processing industry are abundant, such as durian peel, mango peel, corn straw, rice bran, corn shell, potato peel and many more. ...
More specifically, using the indicators proposed in the analysis of international trade, we want to analyse the intensity of trade in agri–food products and the strength of trade ties between the bordering Mediterranean countries. The analysis of the intensity of trade flows of food products from Italy and the partner countries ...
About 70% of this fresh water is used for agricultural production, 22% for industrial purposes and 8% for domestic purposes. Increasing competition for water for domestic and industrial purposes is likely to reduce the water available for agriculture. Thus, water scarcity is being increasingly accepted as a major limitation on increased ...
It may even be the other way around: that the farmers who have access to financial services, agricultural inputs, technology, and markets—and who are already on safer ground—are the ones who will be able to use insurance as a way to lower the risk of investing in potentially more high-yield but also more demanding crops. ...
New conceptualisations of peri-urban zones are needed to trigger a deeper understanding within professionals and practitioners of appropriate intervention strategies that build the resilience of sustainable agriculture and food production within peri-urban communities. This paper posits a theoretical construction of the peri-urban zone, derived ...
Production ecological analyses reveal great differences in food production potential and food requirement between global regions, which implies the need for redistribution of food between surplus and deficit regions. The surplus production potential, current production and trade ...
This paper looks into the potential impacts of the proposed Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between African, Caribbean and Pacific countries and the European Union (EU) on agriculture and food production in Nigeria. Using a partial equilibrium analysis, it assesses possible changes in production arising from the ...
The efficiency of a traceability system lies on the ability to collect information related to product quality and consumer safety. There is a wide range of traceability systems currently used in food chains; from paper-based to IT enabled. In this paper, the different approaches given in literature on the requirements of a successful traceability support system are reviewed, and the factors that ...