Sentences with phrase «by agribusinesses»

I don't think you can blame the environmental movement for rampant and anti-environmental profiteering by agribusinesses realising that biofuel crops can be a huge money - spinner.

As many others have suggested, and been shouted down by the agribusinesses of this country, third - world nations don't need sacks of rice and grain.

The letter alleges that China is being exploited by agribusinesses and calls for the revocation of the safety certificates for GM rice.

The Wheat Board is one of the last obstacles to total dominance of world grain markets by agribusiness and was targeted by the U.S. and the E.U. for elimination in the Doha round.

In the United States, the thousands of deserted rural towns resulting from the replacement of family farming by agribusiness are one witness to this destruction.

Sadly, villages that have improved their lot in such ways are sometimes wiped out by agribusiness or by flooding caused by a huge dam built to fulfill the goals of standard, top - down, development based on the individualistic model.

These facts surprise many of us, especially since we see the abundance of food in the supermarkets created by agribusiness.

Much so - called development in the Third World has resulted in villages being replaced by agribusiness and factories, with villagers driven to slums in cities such as Calcutta and Sao Paulo.

goFArm, which manages a development portfolio of over 21,000 ha of prime agricultural land in the Riverina and Sunraysia is run by agribusiness investor Liam Lenaghan and chaired by Robert Costa, co-founder of the country's biggest fresh fruit and veg group.

Guarani - Kaiowá leader Ladio Veron is touring Europe to raise awareness of violence and environmental destruction by agribusiness

Critics like Greenpeace say not enough is known about how the strain will mutate and fear that the technology — largely funded by agribusiness giant Syngenta — will be monopolised by profiteering corporations.

I think we've been duped into blaming ourselves, when all along a big part of the blame should be placed on this corrupt product of genetics research, propagated by agribusiness, and put to profitable use.

We consume foods that we instinctively regard as food, not the seeds of grasses that we are told by agribusiness should be regarded as food.

Just as an alcoholic does not regain full vigor and health by stopping the flow of bourbon, but must address nutritional deficiencies, liver problems, as well as the social disruption of alcoholism, so a former wheat - and grain - eater must undo all the adverse effects that developed over years of consuming foods changed by agribusiness.

And despite a $ 9 - million campaign by agribusiness to defeat Prop 2, it passed with the greatest number of votes of any citizen initiative in California history.

Aidesep makes this demand, arguing that the ongoing land seizure by agribusiness for agro-industrial palm plantations violates Peruvian national law, the rights of thousands of indigenous people, and international agreements such as Peru's Letter of Intent for zero net deforestation signed with Norway and Germany in 2014.

Mining was the industry most linked to the killings (accounting for 42 deaths), followed by agribusiness (20), logging and dams (both 15).

Not exact matches

Great Southern receiver McGrathNicol has opted to wind up the olive schemes operated by the fallen agribusiness company after failing to overcome a stalemate with two of the biggest names in Western Australian horticulture.

Mosaic, which has a market cap of $ 38 billion, could now be up for a takeover by a foreign agribusiness company.

With the rules in development, there are concerns that cottage - industry growers could be driven out by corporate - type businesses, much the way large - scale agribusiness doomed family farms in the Midwest.

Meet the small businesses, brands, and agribusinesses who have already found success by connecting to China.

New president Mauricio Macri has motivated his economic team to restore Argentina's macroeconomic balance by adopting a flexible currency policy, devaluing the peso, reducing subsidies and easing tariffs for agribusiness exporters.

Founded in 1952, and now managed and owned by the second and third generations of the Honan family, Manildra has moved from a single - product agribusiness company into a multisector, billion - dollar - plus powerhouse.

This has been achieved, of course, by shifting from family farms to agribusiness.

The ever - optimistic Ohio farmer Gene Logsdon, for instance, makes a persuasive case for returning to grass - feeding steers, hogs, chicken, dairy cows and sheep instead of the concentrated feedlot farming favored by industrial agribusiness.

Limoneira takes pride in its status as a sustainably operated agribusiness, and Edwards says it strives to reduce its carbon footprint by making strategic investments in solar, water, soil and integrated pest management (IPM).

The investigation is the latest examination by The HSUS into the operations of the nation's top animal agribusinesses.

Foreign investment has seen large segments of the Australian food industry absorbed by multinational agribusiness that take profits offshore:

Australia's biggest agribusiness sees profit fall by a third amid a «subdued market» and dry weather.

A report last year by KPMG and the University of Sydney showed that Australian agribusiness drew just 1 per cent of China's outbound direct investment in 2014.

The fund, managed by rural property veteran David Bryant, also grew distributions by 4 per cent to 8.92 cents in FY16 (a yield of about 5.4 per cent) as it benefited from rising global demand for the commodities its properties produce, the increasing scale and value of its portfolio and growing appetite for agribusiness from big institutional investors.

Brazil's unit of U.S. agribusiness company Cargill Inc., Cargill Brasil, is entering the segment of food industry ingredients through the acquisition of Smucker Brasil, so far controlled by the U.S. jellies and jams producer J.M. Smucker Co..

The Food and Agribusiness Sector Competitiveness Plan, developed by FIAL as part of the Industry Growth Centres Initiative, provides the high - level sector vision for this Roadmap.

The clog - free automatic liquid - to - solid waste separator is being introduced to the Asia - Pacific by CST Wastewater Solutions for compact dewatering applications ranging from food processing, food waste, grease trap and waste oil through to municipal wastewater sludge, livestock manure and agribusiness processes.

At the micro-level, the food and agribusiness sector is seeing an increase in the virulence of microorganisms and parasites, known pathogens spreading to novel geographies, and the continued rise of antimicrobial resistance.67 Global use of antimicrobials in livestock is expected to rise by 67 % by 2030 to 105,596 tons.68 China's livestock industry alone could soon be consuming almost one third of the world's available antibiotics.

The Roadmap aims to build on the National food and nutrition research and development and technology transfer strategy1 and complement the 10 - year Sector Competitiveness Plan developed by FIAL — the Food and Agribusiness Growth Centre2.

Lactanz Dairies had been in receivership since 2013 after accruing debts of $ 21 million, before being purchased for close to $ 30 million by Melbourne - based Australian Agribusiness Group (AAG) and a consortium of European investors in June last year.

These were developed by applying a food and agribusiness lens to previous megatrend analysis including CSIRO's global megatrends6 and the agriculture megatrends developed in partnership with the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC) 7.

Agribusiness analysts have revealed predictions that New Zealand is set to increase milk production by 4.5 % when compared to the previous season.

The anaerobic wastewater biogas technologies — which extract methane to generate green electricity or to fuel boilers and other factory equipment — are particularly applicable to food, beverage and agribusiness companies, or any industry that has a biological waste stream or wastewater with high organic carbon or COD (chemical oxygen demand) of natural origin that can be broken down into biogas by anaerobic bacteria.

US agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), one of the biggest grains traders in the world, has been spared little sympathy by some farmers and politicians like Liberal senator Bill Heffernan, who used a Senate inquiry to grill ADM's executives on price - fixing charges dating back to the 1990s.

So many of the excellent health food companies have been gobbled up by Big Agribusiness and he has guaranteed that this won't happen to his company now by making his employee's co-owners.

Give your body more of what it needs and not the additives used by big agribusinesses to pad their bottom line.

FIAL works with all industry stakeholders across the food and agribusiness sector by sharing knowledge, building capability and creating connections in order to increase the share of Australian food in the global market place.

«To be world leaders in grass - based milk production by ensuring the economic, social and environmental sustainability of the Kerry Agribusiness milk supply into the future.»

An environmentally friendly and cost - efficient waste water treatment system is being engineered by Australian company CST Wastewater Solutions for smaller, remote and ecologically sensitive community, municipal, agribusiness and industrial applications throughout the Asia - Pacific.

which is then sometimes pumped - up with water by major agribusiness concerns to 130 %!)

The Global Agribusiness Alliance pledged to halve its food loss by 2030 and the Consumer Goods Forum committed to standardize food date labels by 2020.

Informa's Agribusiness Intelligence has released its latest predictions that meat and dairy substitutes will grow strongly to 2021, with milk substitutes growing most rapidly by 43 % and meat substitutes by 25 %.

Through our sister company, Kerry Agribusiness, we guarantee the integrity and quality of our supply chain by working in partnership with 3,600 direct milk suppliers.