1. US coffee traders are considering importing robusta beans from European warehouses, potentially exploiting cheaper shipping costs, as stocks there build even as farmers in top-grower Vietnam hoard supplies in hopes of higher prices.
2. The World Bank's political risk insurance arm has issued a $48.8m guarantee to help the bamboo plantations manager expand its Nicaraguan operations.
3. The Trussbridge-led Middle East consortium has bought a majority stake in gluten-free producer La Maison Cannelle, entering into North American Food sector.
4. The U.S. department of energy (ARPA-E) awarded $55m to fund 18 projects to accelerate technologies for efficient residental combined heat and power generation and bioenergy crop development.
5. Supper Annuation funds NZ Super, First State Super discuss fees, direct investing, gap between family agribusiness and institutional capital.
6. Liquid breakfasts are not truly catching on with consumers as an alternative to cereal-based breakfast options, says Euromonitor International.
7. Industry must work to minimize levels of inorganic arsenic in rice and rice-based snacks as high levels pose a health risk to consumers, warns Germany’s Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR).
8. Latin America (Brazil), the Middle East (Iran) and Africa (Kenya) are hot on the heels of the US and Europe in packaged cheese, and growth is set to stir up plenty of future M&A activity, says Euromonitor International.
9. British meat has been found to contain MRSA and consumers are concerned.
10. Nestlé has developed coffee machines with more interactive interfaces that can also be adjusted remotely, enabling better control on tailored drinks for food service.
11. The US fruit pouch category could be worth $1bn in next 3-4 years, predicts the firm behind GoGo SqueeZ.
12. Fructose may lead to overeating by creating fewer reward signals in the brain, suggests a small pilot study published in PLOS ONE.
13. In U.S. upplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) spendt $18.8 million to make purchases at roadside farm stands, farmers markets and directly from local farmers than ever before.
14. Grain companies are working with Denver-based MycoTechnology to explore how mushrooms’ filament-like roots or ‘mycelium’ could help create new value-added opportunities in the cereals market by transforming the nutritional profile of wheat and other grains.
15. BASF is backing a student-led research project that aims to examine how food crops can be grown on the international space station (ISS).
16. Growth for spirits lies in export markets such as China, India, Brazil and South East Asia as EU consumption slumps, says trade association spiritsEUROPE.
17. Hershey has earmarked China’s thriving e-commerce channel as a future growth driver despite setbacks in the country’s overall confectionery market.
18. US agribusiness giant, Cargill, has opened an animal nutrition technology application center (TAC) in Hebei, China, which it said incurred an investment of $6.2 million.
2. The World Bank's political risk insurance arm has issued a $48.8m guarantee to help the bamboo plantations manager expand its Nicaraguan operations.
3. The Trussbridge-led Middle East consortium has bought a majority stake in gluten-free producer La Maison Cannelle, entering into North American Food sector.
4. The U.S. department of energy (ARPA-E) awarded $55m to fund 18 projects to accelerate technologies for efficient residental combined heat and power generation and bioenergy crop development.
5. Supper Annuation funds NZ Super, First State Super discuss fees, direct investing, gap between family agribusiness and institutional capital.
6. Liquid breakfasts are not truly catching on with consumers as an alternative to cereal-based breakfast options, says Euromonitor International.
7. Industry must work to minimize levels of inorganic arsenic in rice and rice-based snacks as high levels pose a health risk to consumers, warns Germany’s Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR).
8. Latin America (Brazil), the Middle East (Iran) and Africa (Kenya) are hot on the heels of the US and Europe in packaged cheese, and growth is set to stir up plenty of future M&A activity, says Euromonitor International.
9. British meat has been found to contain MRSA and consumers are concerned.
10. Nestlé has developed coffee machines with more interactive interfaces that can also be adjusted remotely, enabling better control on tailored drinks for food service.
11. The US fruit pouch category could be worth $1bn in next 3-4 years, predicts the firm behind GoGo SqueeZ.
12. Fructose may lead to overeating by creating fewer reward signals in the brain, suggests a small pilot study published in PLOS ONE.
13. In U.S. upplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) spendt $18.8 million to make purchases at roadside farm stands, farmers markets and directly from local farmers than ever before.
14. Grain companies are working with Denver-based MycoTechnology to explore how mushrooms’ filament-like roots or ‘mycelium’ could help create new value-added opportunities in the cereals market by transforming the nutritional profile of wheat and other grains.
15. BASF is backing a student-led research project that aims to examine how food crops can be grown on the international space station (ISS).
16. Growth for spirits lies in export markets such as China, India, Brazil and South East Asia as EU consumption slumps, says trade association spiritsEUROPE.
17. Hershey has earmarked China’s thriving e-commerce channel as a future growth driver despite setbacks in the country’s overall confectionery market.
18. US agribusiness giant, Cargill, has opened an animal nutrition technology application center (TAC) in Hebei, China, which it said incurred an investment of $6.2 million.
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