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, ...
MAZOR, ISRAEL (ots) - --News Direct-- - Accelerating Production Capacity to Meet Demand for Regenerative Agriculture Products - Serving One Million Acres (400 KHa) in 2021 Groundwork BioAg announced today it raised $11 million in venture capital financing led by Ibex Investors with the participation of ProDelta and Future Foodways. Previous investors, including MoreVC, ...
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse
Bern (ots) - By adopting a few simple measures, farmers can drastically reduce the use of antibiotics and improve the well-being of their animals without economic disadvantages. This was confirmed in a field trial- the first of its kind in Switzerland - carried out by researchers of the University of Bern based on the specially developed "outdoor veal calf" method. Large amounts of antibiotics are used in the veal ...
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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 ...
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse
Bern (ots) - A study funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation shows that goats like to earn a reward by 'working' for it, even if they can get the same reward without making any effort. This finding could benefit humane husbandry. Goats respond positively to challenges rather than just turning away. In a project funded jointly by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the German Research Foundation (DFG), two breeding lines - dairy goats and dwarf goats - ...
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 (ots/PRNewswire) - 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 ...
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
issuer: Lenzing AG A-4860 Lenzing phone: +43 7672-701-0 FAX: +43 7672-96301 mail: office@lenzing.com WWW: http://www.lenzing.com ISIN: AT0000644505 indexes: WBI, ATX stockmarkets: Wien language: English ...
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. ...
Geneva, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - Firmenich, the world's largest privately-owned Perfume and Taste company, announces the launch of "One Planet Business for Biodiversity" (http://www.op2b.org/) (OP2B) at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York. A founding member of OP2B, Firmenich is one of 19 likeminded ...
- 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 ...
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Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse
Bern (ots) - Spatial planning tools, agriculture and forestry that suit local conditions, nationwide soil mapping, and a more committed and coherent soil policy are the cornerstones of the measures put forward by the National Research Programme "Sustainable Use of Soil as a Resource" (NRP 68) to safeguard soil quality in Switzerland in the long term. By virtue of its properties, soil fulfils a wide variety of functions. ...
Frankfurt am Main (ots) - - EUR 33 million for irrigation of 22,600 hectares of land in the Niger catchment basin - Around 90,000 smallholder farm families to benefit - Security of food supply for 260,000 people On behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Develop-ment (BMZ), KfW signed a ...
Münster, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - Comprehensive and future-oriented cooperation in terms of technology development, localized production and commercialization COMPO EXPERT GmbH (COMPO EXPERT), a leading manufacturer of specialty fertilizers for commercial use and portfolio company of the London-headquartered ...