1. Crop protection biotech, food and agri focused VC company Cultivian raises $3m in Series A.
2. The UK development finance institution's free online ESG guidance tool for fund managers includes a specific agriculture and aquaculture profile.
3. Innovation Endeavors, the VC fund launched by Google chairman Eric Schmidt, invested in the round alongside other heavy-hitting VC players and a crowd-funding platform.
4. Farm2050 collective raises $9m for Israeli Irrigation Company.
5. The EU’s ban on prebiotics and probiotics as marketing tools has cost the market €500m and will cost a further €1bn by 2020 according to Euromonitor International data.
6. Growth has slowed in the Polish food supplemets market as prices have risen following years of solid growth but forecaster PMR expects growth to spike again in 2017.
7. A majority of UK shoppers aged 16-34 think that organic products are important (54%), compared to under a third (30%) of over-55s, according to a market research report.
8. Ferrero has struck a £112M deal to buy 30% of the UK chocolatier Thorntons, after several shareholders sold their stakes in the business.
9. Johnson & Johnson’s Nectresse monk-fruit-based sweeteners were discontinued late last year owing to disappointing sales. However, a lawsuit challenging the products’ claims to be ‘100% natural’ is still very much alive.
10. Popcorn manufacturers are pumping too much salt into their products, while leading consumers to believe they are a healthy snack, campaigners have claimed the health claims as misleading.
11. Legislation banning food businesses from throwing away fit-for-purpose surplus food would be as accepted as policy surrounding seatbelts, according to the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
12. USDA announced the availability of $17.5 million in financial and technical assistance to help eligible conservation partners voluntarily protect, restore and enhance critical wetlands on private and tribal agricultural lands.
13. ew research showing organic agriculture is significantly more profitable than conventional should reassure farmers who are considering switching to organic but are nervous about financial loss during the three year transition in which they will have lower yields but cannot charge premium prices for their crops.
14. Some US$20m is urgently needed to support farmers in earthquake-hit Nepal and stave off the threat of prolonged food insecurity facing an estimated one million people, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations has warned.
15. Global demand for food processing machinery will rise by 7.6% per annum to $73bn in 2019, according to The Freedonia Group industry research firm.
16. The Nordic Council of Ministers (Norden) has published a guidance document on metals and alloys used in food contact materials (FCMs).
17. Pope Francis has weighed into the debate over GM crops, arguing that while he doesn’t believe there is any “conclusive proof that GM cereals are harmful to human beings”, he worries about their effects on the ecosystem, and argues that they have resulted in more agricultural land being "concentrated in the hands of a few owners”.
18. Horses for export into Europe may have been treated with illegal substances in Canada within the last 180 days before slaughter, according to a Food and Veterinary Office (FVO) report.
19. Despite UK milk prices falling significantly in recent years, consumers are willing to pay more for their milk, according to new research.
20. IFC invests $20m in Zambian business to support Africa's $30million expansion programme including the modernization of existing grain production operations.
2. The UK development finance institution's free online ESG guidance tool for fund managers includes a specific agriculture and aquaculture profile.
3. Innovation Endeavors, the VC fund launched by Google chairman Eric Schmidt, invested in the round alongside other heavy-hitting VC players and a crowd-funding platform.
4. Farm2050 collective raises $9m for Israeli Irrigation Company.
5. The EU’s ban on prebiotics and probiotics as marketing tools has cost the market €500m and will cost a further €1bn by 2020 according to Euromonitor International data.
6. Growth has slowed in the Polish food supplemets market as prices have risen following years of solid growth but forecaster PMR expects growth to spike again in 2017.
7. A majority of UK shoppers aged 16-34 think that organic products are important (54%), compared to under a third (30%) of over-55s, according to a market research report.
8. Ferrero has struck a £112M deal to buy 30% of the UK chocolatier Thorntons, after several shareholders sold their stakes in the business.
9. Johnson & Johnson’s Nectresse monk-fruit-based sweeteners were discontinued late last year owing to disappointing sales. However, a lawsuit challenging the products’ claims to be ‘100% natural’ is still very much alive.
10. Popcorn manufacturers are pumping too much salt into their products, while leading consumers to believe they are a healthy snack, campaigners have claimed the health claims as misleading.
11. Legislation banning food businesses from throwing away fit-for-purpose surplus food would be as accepted as policy surrounding seatbelts, according to the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
12. USDA announced the availability of $17.5 million in financial and technical assistance to help eligible conservation partners voluntarily protect, restore and enhance critical wetlands on private and tribal agricultural lands.
13. ew research showing organic agriculture is significantly more profitable than conventional should reassure farmers who are considering switching to organic but are nervous about financial loss during the three year transition in which they will have lower yields but cannot charge premium prices for their crops.
14. Some US$20m is urgently needed to support farmers in earthquake-hit Nepal and stave off the threat of prolonged food insecurity facing an estimated one million people, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations has warned.
15. Global demand for food processing machinery will rise by 7.6% per annum to $73bn in 2019, according to The Freedonia Group industry research firm.
16. The Nordic Council of Ministers (Norden) has published a guidance document on metals and alloys used in food contact materials (FCMs).
17. Pope Francis has weighed into the debate over GM crops, arguing that while he doesn’t believe there is any “conclusive proof that GM cereals are harmful to human beings”, he worries about their effects on the ecosystem, and argues that they have resulted in more agricultural land being "concentrated in the hands of a few owners”.
18. Horses for export into Europe may have been treated with illegal substances in Canada within the last 180 days before slaughter, according to a Food and Veterinary Office (FVO) report.
19. Despite UK milk prices falling significantly in recent years, consumers are willing to pay more for their milk, according to new research.
20. IFC invests $20m in Zambian business to support Africa's $30million expansion programme including the modernization of existing grain production operations.
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