Evidence shows that farms that share landscapes with wild nature, such as remnant forests and trees, benefit from the ecosystem services provided...
EU-banned pesticides could not only threaten wild bees where they eat, but where they sleep too...
Philip Donkersley 8 hours ago
Inmed Aquaponics Social Enterprise is among the first to receive capital through Mondelez International's new impact investing platform Sustainable Futures...
How geographical indications can provide economic and financial advantages to a product's place of origin...
Samuel Samiai Andrews 24 Feb 2021
Kenya is battling some of the worst locust plagues in decades, but startup The Bug Picture hopes to transform the pests into profits...
Baz Ratner 23 Feb 2021
PepsiCo and Beyond Meat have teamed up to form The PLANeT Partnership, a joint venture to develop, produce and market snack and beverage products made from plant-based protein...
Covid-19 is deepening global food insecurity, as the pandemic's economic impact adds to existing challenges...
Jules Siedenburg and John Paul Cauchi 26 Jan 2021
The total number of ASF outbreaks in progress rose from 7,865 to 7,927, with 4,228 outbreaks in Romania alone, and 1,336 in Vietnam. Of the new outbreaks, 74 were reported in Europe and 40 in Asia. The data is included in a biweekly survey released by the OIE...
PepsiCo plans to more than double its science-based climate goal, targeting a reduction of absolute greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain by more than 40% by 2030...
Researchers have unearthed a 'biological switch' which could boost crop yield worldwide...
Malcolm Bennett, Bipin Pandey and Sacha Mooney 18 Jan 2021
Despite their enormous value, mangroves are being removed at an alarming rate. A new tool aims to help communities reverse mangrove loss and tap into conservation programmes and funding.
Trevor Gareth Jones 15 Jan 2021
Deforestation in Brazil recently reached a 12-year high, prompting France to cut soybean imports from the country...
Angela Guerrero and Malika Virah-Sawmy 4 Jan 2021
Despite intense efforts to control the pest throughout 2020, a new generation of Desert Locust swarms is threatening livelihoods and food security in the Horn of Africa and Yemen...
Our research shows we could feed the world sustainably - but conservation will have to become a lot more proactive...
David Williams and Michael Clark 22 Dec 2020
Since March 2020 when Covid-19 first turned business on its head, Bizcommunity has been the place where virtual business gets done, fully set up to seamlessly steer your business communications through the challenges of lockdowns, meltdowns and new remote working norms...
Bizcommunity.com 18 Dec 2020
Between a global pandemic and politically turbulent climate, livestock industries have eagerly looked toward international policies and trade. Now that 2020 has nearly come to an end, specialists in policy, trade and economics can evaluate trends and offer a future outlook, writes Jaclyn Krymowski for Global Ag Media...
Jaclyn Krymowski 11 Dec 2020
Cultured meat made from animal cells without animal slaughter has been approved for sale for the first time...
Chris Bryant 7 Dec 2020
A promising new test for Johne's disease in dairy cattle has been developed at the Institute for Global Food Security and School of Biological Sciences at Queen's University Belfast...
Global food commodity prices rose to a nearly six-year high in November...
The agtech market is comprised of services such as agricultural sensors for crop management, GPS field mapping, and supply chain management...
FAO's The State of Food and Agriculture 2020 takes a new look at water shortages and scarcity in the world...
