Rome (ots/PRNewswire) - Net-zero emissions from food and land use, reimagining school meals and advancing healthy diets will be on the agenda at the Pre-Summit next month The UN Food Systems Summit has revealed the 15 action areas with more than 50 solution clusters that will inspire discussions at the Pre-Summit in Rome from July 26-28. Each action area, developed by ...
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - Our champagne's excellence stems above all from our respect for nature Champagne comes from the earth and is indebted to it. The more gratitude and respect we show the earth, the more it will clear a path to excellence in return. This virtuous circle is the defining feature of familial champagne house Telmont. Since 1912, year the House was ...
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - In the wake of the International Day for Biological Diversity, Moët Hennessy, world leader of high-quality wine and spirits, is thrilled to announce it is joining the Pour une Agriculture du Vivant (PADV) movement. This partnership is born from a shared vision and desire to promote and develop sustainable agricultural and winemaking practices ...
Global Alliance for the Future of Food
Toronto (ots/PRNewswire) - New report spotlights the people transforming food systems in dynamic and creative ways Today the Global Alliance for the Future of Food publishes Beacons of Hope: Stories of Food Systems Transformation During COVID-19. Drawn from different countries around the world, each initiative intervenes at a different point in the food system and responds to the pandemic with creativity, adaptability, ...
Geneva (ots/PRNewswire) - Firmenich, the world's largest privately owned fragrance and taste company, today announces the launch of its Culinary and SmartProteins® Innovation Center in Tuas, Singapore. The new center will serve as a regional R&D hub for Asia and a global center of expertise in alternative proteins for meat and dairy analogs. The Innovation Center is ...
São Paulo (ots/PRNewswire) - Purchase of Vivera, Europe's third-largest plant-based protein producer thrusts JBS into the plant protein market; the EUR341 million deal includes the three manufacturing units and a research and development center in The Netherlands JBS, the world's largest protein company and second-largest food producer, has entered into an agreement ...
Beijing (ots) - "When raising cattle, first you need to like them." "If you don't want to be poor, you cannot just rely on physical work. You need to use your mind and explore the cattle-raising skills." Yu Chenglin is a herder who lives in the prairie of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Yu was quite poor twenty years before he decided to raise cattle to make a ...
Beijing (ots/PRNewswire) - As Pan Qingqing sips on a traditional Chinese tea, she glances out the window of her mountaintop guesthouse. The view is splendid with billowing clouds and valleys, and this is swiftly followed by laughter and loud chatter in the guesthouse where she is right in the middle of a jovial conversation with her guests who have made the trip to the ...
Beijing (ots/PRNewswire) - American environmentalist, Lester Russell Brown, in the 1990s wrote a book, Who Will Feed China? where he conjectures that the Chinese might create a food crisis for the world. But fortunately, China has a per-capita grain supply of 470 kg, which is higher than the global average. Hybrid rice, whose output can be 10-20 percent higher than that of normal rice, has contributed handsomely to ...
Beijing (ots/PRNewswire) - Along China's northeastern coast of Bohai Sea stretched a strip of saline-alkali soil back in 1980s. It could barely afford any arable fields for plants and crops. In 1994, Binhai New Area of Tianjin was established by the coast as a greening and eco-restoration project just rolled out in the region. After over 20 years' efforts, a ...
Geneva (ots/PRNewswire) - Firmenich, the world's largest privately-owned perfume and taste company, has signed an innovative partnership to further strengthen its responsible sourcing of vanilla with Authentic Products, one of the world's leading producers in Madagascar and a founding member of Group's ...
Beijing (ots/PRNewswire) - Hiroto Kawasaki is a 74-year-old Japanese agricultural expert working in Xiaoliugu Village, Xinxiang City, Henan Province in central China. In 2009 when he visited rural areas during an exchange at Qingdao Agricultural University, he found that the agricultural development there relied heavily on chemical fertilizers. This experience inspired ...
Beijing, China (ots) - Hiroto Kawasaki is a 74-year-old Japanese agricultural expert working in Xiaoliugu Village, Xinxiang City, Henan Province in central China. In 2009 when he visited rural areas during an exchange at Qingdao Agricultural University, he found that the agricultural development there relied heavily on chemical fertilizers. This experience inspired ...
Beijing, China (ots) - Phuntsog Gyatso, 33, seldom left his village in Sangri County, Tibet Autonomous Region, in the first 30 years of his life. Both his mother and brother have disabilities. And as the only bread earner in the family, Phuntsog Gyatso had to take care of the family and the highland barley fields all by himself. His village was located on top of a ...
Zurich (ots/PRNewswire) - It is perfect timing: In mid-October the world will discuss the topic. A ground breaking book has been published today to support governments, NGOs and the wider public as they make vital choices that impact the future direction of food production across the globe. The book "Transformation ...
Biovision Stiftung für ökologische Entwicklung
Changzhou, China (ots/PRNewswire) - On August 16, the China Jintan Global Investment Network Conference started online in Jintan, China. Due to the global pandemic, the organizers innovatively made the conference a live event on various popular platforms including TikTok to reach out to entrepreneurs across the world. Jintan, located between Shanghai and Nanjing, is a new industrial hub planned by the Jiangsu Province ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots) - Versameb AG, a biopharmaceutical company developing innovative ribonucleic acid (RNA) therapeutics, announced today the closing of a CHF 6 million seed financing round. Versameb further strengthens its team by the appointment of Dr. Klaas P. Zuideveld as Chief Development Officer effective ...
Geneva (ots/PRNewswire) - In order to strengthen Firmenich industry leadership in ingredients and drive a new era of excellence, Firmenich, has appointed Boet Brinkgreve to President of Ingredients, effective June 1st, 2020. Boet will continue to report directly to Firmenich CEO, Gilbert Ghostine, as a member of the Company's Executive Committee. Separately, ...
The Global Center on Adaptation
Rotterdam, Netherlands (ots/PRNewswire) - Today, 54 leaders from the African Adaptation Initiative championed by President Ali Bongo Ondimba of Gabon, endorsed the policy recommendations outlined in the brief "Integrated Responses to Building Climate and Pandemic Resilience in Africa". The policy brief was prepared ...
Oslo, Norway (ots/PRNewswire) - Kezzler enables RunHui Agriculture to secure its supply chain and protect well-known Chinese food products from counterfeits Kezzler (https://kezzler.com/) was selected by RunHui Agricultural Comprehensive Development Co. Ltd (referred to as RunHui) to provide a traceability and ...
Geneva (ots/PRNewswire) - Cotecna is pleased to announce the acquisition of a 51% equity stake in Kaixin Certification (Beijing) Co., Ltd. in Beijing, China. Cotecna is a global provider of inspection and testing services and supply chain solutions. Thanks to their international network of offices and laboratories, they provide conformity assessment across a number of industry sectors, including Food, Agriculture, ...
Visbek (ots) - Yesterday, German-based company EW Nutrition took a first step toward serving the animal production industry in these challenging times. The in-feed and on-farm solutions company has started a series of topical webinars on challenging issues such as neonatal pig management, poultry gut health and many ...
Geneva (ots/PRNewswire) - Firmenich to Become a Key Player in Renewable Ingredients for Perfumery and Beyond Firmenich today announced that it has entered into exclusivity with Ardian, Tikehau Capital and family shareholders to acquire Les Dérivés Résiniques et Terpéniques ("DRT"). DRT is a world leader in plant-based chemistry, mainly from pine trees, and is one of the leading suppliers globally of high quality, ...
Reinach, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - World-leading belting supplier Habasit is launching its innovative Super HyCLEAN plastic modular belt range at IPPE 2020. Designed for poultry processing applications demanding the highest sanitation standards, the new belts' patented hygienic design significantly reduces ...
Lleida, Spain (ots/PRNewswire) - From 4 to 7 November, in Lleida, Spain, OPP Group and EW Nutrition are hosting their second workshop on animal health and welfare with reduced antibiotic use The two-day event offers swine producers and other stakeholders essential, actionable information on developing profitable ...
Shanghai, China (ots) - On 29 October, German-based company EW Nutrition will officially open its new production plant in China. The new plant is the next step in the successful development of EWN Biotechnology Shanghai. By offering holistic, science-backed solutions, EW Nutrition supports the Chinese industry in its effort to reduce antibiotic use. "With this latest investment," says Craige Allen, General Manager, EWN ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - Olam Coffee CEO Vivek Verma supports London Declaration but industry and governments must work together to develop a safety net for coffee farmers. According to Olam Coffee, the world's coffee farmers will be left in a continual limbo unless industry and governments act fast to help them out of the current price crisis and provide future price stability as they face the impacts of climate change. ...
- Picture is available at AP Images (http://www.apimages.com) - Guangzhou, China (ots/PRNewswire) - On August 28-29, the BBS & Excellent Product Award Ceremony for Reducing Antibiotic Resistance for the Layer Industry was held in Guangzhou. China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs reiterated that, starting ...