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SugaRich boosts senior management team as it looks ahead to further growth

Specialist surplus food processor, SugaRich, has further strengthened its senior team, with the appointment of National Sales and Marketing Manager, Angela Sutherby. This development follows a period of significant growth for the ‘food factory to farm’ experts, and marks the continued consolidation of SugaRich’s presence in the UK. With nearly 30 years’ industry ...

Jun. 18, 2014

By SugaRich

New research relationships developing due to dwindling dollars

It's the vicious cycle of funding-- dollars dropping, in this particular case, for ag-related research. The drop leads to declines in faculty and staff. Those declines ultimately impact student enrollment, leading to a shortage in qualified graduates. "Obviously if you've had a 30% reduction in funding, you don't have the support staff or the operating budget. And so programs are affected," ...

Feb. 16, 2012

By Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

Africa’s youth key to strengthening agricultural economy

Getting more African youth involved in agriculture and boosting support for the region's vulnerable family farmers will be pivotal to improving food security and economic well-being in the years to come, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva told participants at the Organization's Regional Conference for Africa. He also named water scarcity, low investment and conflict as being ...

Mar. 27, 2014

By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Strengthening links between industry and agriculture to build sustainable food systems

Industrialization can be an important tool for poverty and hunger reduction but should not come at the expense of agricultural development, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said today. “Industrial development and agriculture should complement each other,” he told participants at the Second Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development Forum (ISID Forum II) in ...

Nov. 4, 2014

By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

World agribusiness R&D controlled by `cosy cartel`

The increasing consolidation of global agribusiness is leaving the world's food production in the hands of a corporate "cartel", warns a new market report from ETC Group, a civil society organization based in Canada. According to the report, six multinational corporations — BASF, Bayer, Dow, DuPont, Monsanto and Syngenta — control 75 per cent of all private-sector plant breeding ...

Sep. 21, 2013

By SciDev.Net

SAGCOT on agri in Tanzania: “Someday agriculture will truly uplift the country and the region at large”

Tanzania’s Development Vision 2025 and ASDS (Agricultural Sector Development Strategy) established clear priorities for the transformation process towards a modern commercial Tanzania to be private sector-led. This is according to Mr. Geoffrey Kirenga, CEO of the SAGCOT Centre Ltd, (Southern Agricultural Corridor of Tanzania), a public-private partnership that seeks to develop the ...

Jan. 2, 2017

By Spintelligent (Pty) Ltd - part of Clarion Events

British GMO protests highlight global divide

British opposition to genetically modified crops is on the rise, prompting security concerns at research laboratories across the country. Nearly all 54 U.K. pesticide-resistant crop trials attempted in the past eight years have been attacked, according to media reports. Protesters are destroying the experimental crops to prevent biotechnology companies from spreading genetically modified ...

Aug. 4, 2008

By Casella Waste Systems, Inc

Achieving Peace Through Agriculture: The Borlaug Dialogue 2019

Commencing today – World Food Day – in Des Moines, Iowa, the 2019 Norman E. Borlaug International Symposium, widely known as the Borlaug Dialogue, is set to focus on the prominent global issues of food security, conflict and development. The official theme for this year’s Borlaug Dialogue is ‘Pax Agricultura: Peace Through Agriculture’, which will cover the most ...

Oct. 16, 2019

By Farming First

History sheds revealing light on crop sequencing

Forty years of crop sequencing trials have recently been collated by the Department of Agriculture and Food WA (DAFWA), giving Western Australian grain growers real insights into the rotational benefits of break crops. Representing more than 160 crop sequence experiments, the results were presented by DAFWA’s Mark Seymour at the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) supported 2009 ...

Apr. 3, 2009

By Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

Agribusiness Congress East Africa returns to Dar es Salaam as region focuses on the business of farming

The business of farming, the effect of climate change in agriculture and attracting young people to the agri-sector are some of the main topics on the agenda at the annual Agribusiness Congress East Africa. This high-level business-to-business and business-to–government event moves to a considerably larger and more accessible venue and will be hosted at Mlimani City Conference Centre in ...

Oct. 7, 2015

By Spintelligent (Pty) Ltd - part of Clarion Events

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