1. The Swiss investment management firm Quantum is hiring to handle a mandate from the $5 billion Angola sovereign wealth fund, which includes timber and agriculture.
2. Zambian Agri project (Armarium) is raising $10m in capital to launch fruit and nut nurseries, an agro-processing park and to start producing fast-growing food crops.
3. Colombian investment into agri sector falls to lowest in 16 years, as Plantings of semi-annual commodities such as corn, rice, sorghum and soybean fell as producers struggled with strong currency and falling commodities.
4. Empowering women in small-hold agriculture is essential to boosting productivity, creating new product launches and generating business - and companies are starting to realise this, says a Fairtrade Foundation report.
5. The Irish agri-business Aurivo Co-operative Society has acquired London-based sports nutrition company My Goodness Ltd in an attempt to gain access to the protein drinks market.
6. Chemical analysis of food fingerprints is an emerging approach in authentication testing, according to The Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) in Germany.
7. LGC has developed six meat mixture reference materials to help protect consumers from food fraud.
8. India has acknowledged the scale of its food adulteration epidemic and has pledged to take steps to stamp it out.
9. announced the availability of $96.8 million in grants to fund innovative projects designed to support specialty crop producers, local food entrepreneurs, and farm to school efforts, which in turn will increase access to healthy, nutritious food for American families and children.
2. Zambian Agri project (Armarium) is raising $10m in capital to launch fruit and nut nurseries, an agro-processing park and to start producing fast-growing food crops.
3. Colombian investment into agri sector falls to lowest in 16 years, as Plantings of semi-annual commodities such as corn, rice, sorghum and soybean fell as producers struggled with strong currency and falling commodities.
4. Empowering women in small-hold agriculture is essential to boosting productivity, creating new product launches and generating business - and companies are starting to realise this, says a Fairtrade Foundation report.
5. The Irish agri-business Aurivo Co-operative Society has acquired London-based sports nutrition company My Goodness Ltd in an attempt to gain access to the protein drinks market.
6. Chemical analysis of food fingerprints is an emerging approach in authentication testing, according to The Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) in Germany.
7. LGC has developed six meat mixture reference materials to help protect consumers from food fraud.
8. India has acknowledged the scale of its food adulteration epidemic and has pledged to take steps to stamp it out.
9. announced the availability of $96.8 million in grants to fund innovative projects designed to support specialty crop producers, local food entrepreneurs, and farm to school efforts, which in turn will increase access to healthy, nutritious food for American families and children.
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