food supply News
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Chairman Roberts Begins, Ends Tenure in Same Manner: Listening to Producers
In his last hearing as Chairman of the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee, Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., today held a hearing titled, “Agricultural Research and Securing the United States Food Supply.” “During my time in public service, the United States has witnessed one of its greatest untold success stories – federal policies that have fostered a scale and efficiency of ...
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Roberts, Stabenow Announce Hearing on Research and Securing America’s Food Supply
U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced the Committee will hold a hearing titled, “Agricultural Research and Securing the United States Food Supply.” Date: December 2, 2020 Time: 2:30 p.m. Place: G50 Dirksen Senate Office Building Who: Mrs. Amy France, Producer, ...
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All Access Pass to the Rethink Food & Agriculture Week, London
This November, London will host the world’s leading investors, innovators and business leaders from across the food supply chain during Rethink’s new Food & Agriculture Week. Bringing together the renowned World Agri-Tech Investment Summit and the Future Food-Tech Summit, the week’s events will explore the latest frontiers in technology to meet global demand for safe, ...
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Tenth of China`s farmland contaminated
A tenth of China's farmland is contaminated with fertiliser, polluted water and heavy metals, threatening the country's food supply, official Chinese sources have said. As much as 12.3m hectares of farmland are affected by pollution from liquid and solid waste, some of which makes its way into the food supply, China's official news agency Xinhua reported. The statistics, sourced from the ...
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Korean Soy Industry Hears about U.S. Soy Sustainability at USSEC Seminar
USSEC hosted a sustainability seminar, “New Call on the Food Supply and Demand Chain,” in Seoul, South Korea on June 8, targeting the crushing, soy food and feed industries. The objective of the seminar was to highlight what sustainability is, why sustainability matters and will matter to the food security and food safety of Korea, and how sustainability is being pursued within the ...
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Best Laboratory of the Year
Businesss Sphere Group TOPPERS to 43 numbers on 22 nov,2012 in Hotel Eros, Managed by Hilton,New Delhi. Shri Kodikunnil Suresh, Hon'ble Minister of State for Labour & Employment Governebt of India, Shri Haroon Yusuf, Hon'ble Minister Power,Food & Civil Supplies, Development and awarded to all businessmen/industrialists. SIGMA TEST & RESEARCH CENTRE has been awarded as the BEST ...
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Ranking Member Stabenow Raises Concerns that the General Service Administration’s Transition Delay is Hurting Farmers, Families
U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, today raised concerns that the General Service Administration’s unprecedented delay in starting the transition is harming farmers and families. In a letter, Ranking Member Stabenow urged Emily Murphy, the Administrator of the General Services Administration, to take ...
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Developing A Food Supply Chain Framework For APEC Economies
Developing a Food Supply Chain Risk Framework for APEC Economies By Dr Hermione Parsons, Director of the Institute for Supply Chain and Logistics at Victoria University Joe Giblin, Director, Icon Global Link and Meaghan Siemensma, Institute for Supply Chain and Logistics, Victoria University Background: The Importance of Safe Food Supply Chains This article describes the outcomes and ...
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Warming Climate Undermines World Food Supply
Global agriculture could go into steep, unanticipated declines due to complications that scientists have so far inadequately considered, say three new reports authored by U.S. and international researchers. Developing countries may lose 334 million acres of prime farm land to climate change in the next 50 years, scientists estimate. After mid-century, continuing temperature rises, expected to ...
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IRRI offers `honest broker` role in global rice market
Equitable food security demands that the land produce enough, farmers profit, and the poor do not go hungry. Robert Zeigler, director general of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), added that well-informed governments will be in a better position to secure the food supply and to protect farmers and consumers in times of crises. “We still feel the shocks of the 2007-08 rice ...
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Agricultural crisis: €500m aid package not enough, say MEPs
The Commission's €500 million aid package revealed last week is a step in the right direction but it might be not enough to get farmers struggling with falling prices back on their feet, many MEPs told Commissioner Phil Hogan in a debate on Wednesday. Crisis management instruments should be improved, and the position of farmers in the food supply chain strengthened, said MEPs. Some also ask ...
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FDA Issues Official Response to Congressional Report Findings of Toxic Elements in Baby Food
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has responded to questions about toxic heavy metals being found in popular baby food products, as proclaimed in a recent Congressional report. “The FDA takes exposure to toxic elements in the food supply extremely seriously, especially when it comes to protecting the health and safety of the youngest and most vulnerable in the population. Toxic ...
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Warming Threatens to cut Crop Yields
Projecting the impact of climate change on global food production is no easy task. A warming climate might result in better crop yields in one region, but cause drought and crop failure in another. A new US study, published in the journal Environmental Letters, assesses the odds of a major slowdown in global food production over the next 20 years. Overall, the study’s authors say, the ...
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First of its Kind Economic Report Shows Fertilizer Industry Supports More than a Half Million U.S. Jobs
Fertilizers are well known for their contribution to the world’s food supply, but until now, the economic value and jobs provided by the fertilizer industry have not been known. The Fertilizer Institute (TFI) is proud to announce the release of a first of its kind economic impact study that quantifies the fertilizer industry’s contribution to the U.S. economy and at the state and ...
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Saving the Large Blue Butterfly - a conservation success story
25 years ago, the Large Blue Butterfly was brought back from extinction in the UK. For the first time, the research that informed the successful re-introduction has been published, providing a model for similar insect conservation projects. In 1979, the Large Blue Butterfly (Maculinea arion) became extinct in the UK. In-depth research uncovered the reasons behind its extinction; these were ...
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Ranking Member Stabenow Leads Advocates in Urging USDA to Prioritize Protections for Food Workers
U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today joined leading agriculture and worker advocates to urge the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to implement the bipartisan worker protection provisions in the COVID-19 assistance package. USDA recently announced an additional round of food boxes without taking action on ...
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Agro-ecology methods are key to food security
Agro-ecological farming methods, not industrial-scale agriculture will be needed to ensure food security and protect food supplies from the impacts of climate change, argues Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. He challenges the widely held view that food production needs to be scaled up to feed a growing population, saying that such a strategy overlooks climate ...
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Rapid action needed to help protect food supplies in vulnerable regions
Agriculture is vulnerable to climate change, and in order to protect food security, food production will have to adapt to rising temperatures and unpredictable changes in rainfall. Agriculture in poorer countries with harsh climate conditions is likely to be most affected. New research predicts how these vulnerable areas are likely to be affected by climate change in the next 20 years. The ...
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Philanthropy committee in action
According to research on the science of giving, charitable acts done at and through work increase employee job satisfaction, work performance, and personal happiness. It’s not surprising that doing good, feels good, which is one of the many reasons why AgBiome takes an active part in a wide variety of philanthropic activities, administered by our Philanthropy Committee. The AgBiome ...
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Pollinators vital to our food supply under threat
A growing number of pollinator species worldwide are being driven toward extinction by diverse pressures, many of them human-made, threatening millions of livelihoods and hundreds of billions of dollars worth of food supplies, according to the first global assessment of pollinators. However, the assessment, a two-year study conducted and released today by the Intergovernmental ...
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