1. IFC backs Ukrainian agri producer Astarta, with $35m debt package.
2. Tanzania puts large rice and sugar farms up for sale and is inviting international and domestic investors to make offers for 60,000 hectares of prime sugar and rice-producing land in the southern agricultural region.
3. Nestlé Pakistan has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS), Lahore.
4. Around 140m children worldwide currently benefit from school milk programmes, according to a survey conducted by the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) and the International Dairy Federation (IDF).
5. Food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture are vital to achieving the entire set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, FAO director-general warned.
6. USDA helped to kick off the nation's harvest season by announcing nearly $35 million in new funding through four grant programs to support local and regional food systems, including farmers markets.
7. Nineteen countries have requested to opt out of GM cultivation in Europe – but while the Commission says the opt-out clause is necessary for such a complex issue, campaigners are calling it ‘Kafkaesque’ and one scientist warns Europe is walking 'an ethical tightrope'
8. The European Union (EU) will make a decision on whether to ban fish imports from Thailand by December, while the EU gave out ‘yellow cards’ for illegal fishing to Comoros and Taiwan.
9. Taking into account studies from around the world, a group of researchers have concluded that calcium does not make for stronger bones.
10. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), currently account for up to 42 percent of all U.S. agricultural exports, totaling $63 billion.
11. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded more than $113 million in program grants to support farmers growing fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, and nursery crops, also known as "specialty crops," through research, agricultural extension activities, and programs to increase demand and address the needs of America's specialty crop industry.
12. The UK government is calling on businesses, R&D scientists and agricultural producers to submit their proposals for salt, sugar, fat and fibre reformulation with the chance to win up to €13.5 m in funding.
13. Developing countries in Asia account for roughly 90% of the world’s monosodium glutamate consumption, out of a 3m tonne market worth US$4.5bn.
14. The International Rice Research Institute (Irri) has filed the genomic sequences of more than 3,000 rice varieties in a move that boosts plans to set up a global data exchange system for crop genetic resources
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