Sentences with phrase «leading food and agriculture»

Also on Tuesday, at the «Appetite for Action» event, Wiebe Draijer — as head of Rabobank, the world's leading food and agriculture bank — announced Kickstart Waste, a 3 - year program to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals» Target 12.3 on food loss and waste.

Roseboro's articles have appeared in leading food and agriculture publications and websites, including Civil Eats, New Hope 360, Organic Connections, World Grain, Natural Foods Merchandiser, the pages of Prepared Foods, and other journals.

Ken's articles have appeared in leading food and agriculture publications and websites such as Civil Eats, Harvest Public Media, Prepared Foods, Natural Foods Merchandiser, Food Processing, and World Grain as well as The Huffington Post, Yahoo News, Mother Earth News, and others.

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SUNNYVALE, Calif. --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Blue River Technology, a leader in the use of computer vision, machine learning and robotics for agriculture, today announced it has raised $ 17 million in Series B funding led by Pontifax Global Food and Agriculture Technology Fund (Pontifagriculture, today announced it has raised $ 17 million in Series B funding led by Pontifax Global Food and Agriculture Technology Fund (PontifAgriculture Technology Fund (Pontifax AgTech).

63 They have told us that they want to replicate the successes of plant - based milk alternatives with cellular and plant - based alternatives to meat, using the power of markets and food technology to provide alternatives to animal agriculture.64 We believe that achieving this aim could lead to immense benefits for animals.

DNA sequencing to create fine wine: The West Australian Department of Agriculture and Food (DAFWA) and the University of Western Australia (UWA) are leading a national project that uses grape genome sequencing to examine how DNA make - up of the vine affects the taste and quality of wine...

Tammi has worked solidly over many years for fair and consistent regulation of farming and food production and distribution, and led the process to establish a Legal Defence Fund to protect and promote the right of people to determine their own food and agriculture systems.

Irish Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed T.D. is leading a week - long Government of Ireland Agri - Food trade mission to Japan and South Korea.

IFOAM Food Security Advocacy expert Cristina Grandi will lead the IFOAM delegation and collaborate with the Round Table on Organic Agriculture and Climate Change (RTOACC) and NOGAMU (National Organic Agriculture Movement of Uganda).

Countries such as the United States are already leading, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency setting the nation's first ever food waste goal: a 50 percent reduction by 2030.

Told through the experiences of several of the leading figures in Australia's Fair Food movement, this book tells stories of personal change, courage, innovation and food activism, from local food hubs and backyard food - forests, to the GE - free movement, urban agriculture, radical homemaking and regenerative agricultFood movement, this book tells stories of personal change, courage, innovation and food activism, from local food hubs and backyard food - forests, to the GE - free movement, urban agriculture, radical homemaking and regenerative agricultfood activism, from local food hubs and backyard food - forests, to the GE - free movement, urban agriculture, radical homemaking and regenerative agricultfood hubs and backyard food - forests, to the GE - free movement, urban agriculture, radical homemaking and regenerative agricultfood - forests, to the GE - free movement, urban agriculture, radical homemaking and regenerative agriculture.

Julie Lefort cooperates in a research activity led by Martine Dorais, researcher at Agriculture and Agri - Food Canada, alongside researchers at Laval University.

Our food security campaign challenges policies that have led to this crisis, namely those subsidizing industrial food and agriculture systems.

Led by the World Resources Institute (WRI), the partnership includes representatives from the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with review and feedback provided by more than 200 additional stakeholders from business, government, civil society, and academia.

The Scholar Days also included seminars led by Researchers in International Agriculture for Development (RAID) representatives who shared knowledge of how to get your foot in the door and lead a successful career improving livelihoods and food security in developing countries.

It is a documented fact that animal agriculture, or trying to sustain an animal based diet globally is the leading cause of environmental destruction, species extinction, and with other unhealthy food, the number one cause of illness globally.

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.

The COMEXPOSIUM Group, one of the world's leading event organizers, is involved in more than 170 B2C and B2B events across 11 different sectors, including food, agriculture, fashion, security, digital, construction, high - tech, optics and transport.

It has been promoting organic agriculture in India for the last 20 years and placed India on the international list of leading standard organic food and ingredients suppliers in line with countries like Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, France, Austria, Denmark, Czech Republic, Belgium, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Middle Eastern countries.

Announced at the Building Sustainable Futures Forum sponsored by Olam International, the newly - formed GAA is a CEO - led private sector initiative seeking to contribute significantly to the delivery of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, most notably SDG 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture [1].

63 They have told us that they want to replicate the successes of plant - based milk alternatives with cellular and plant - based alternatives to meat, using the power of markets and food technology to provide alternatives to animal agriculture.64 We believe that achieving this aim could lead to immense benefits for animals.

At 7 p.m., Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul will address the Agriculture and Food Professionals at LEAD New York Class, Department of Agriculture & Markets, 10B Airline Drive, Albany, NY

Discussions pertaining to farming, food production, and efforts to plan for agriculture in Erie County will be led by Agricultural and Farmland Protection Board, the Erie County Department of Environment and Planning and American Farmland Trust.

«Additionally, the government through the Ministry of Food and Agriculture opened up more mechanization centres across the regions of the country and this has led to increased food security», he adFood and Agriculture opened up more mechanization centres across the regions of the country and this has led to increased food security», he adfood security», he added.

General News of Tuesday, 8 May 2018 Source: Myjoyonline.com USAID is working with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture to address all soil fertility issues USAID Ghana Agriculture Sector Team Lead, Ms Jenna Tajchman has called on stakeholders to urgently put in place the necessary measures to restore soil fertility in the three regions of the north to complement efforts towards food security.&raFood and Agriculture to address all soil fertility issues USAID Ghana Agriculture Sector Team Lead, Ms Jenna Tajchman has called on stakeholders to urgently put in place the necessary measures to restore soil fertility in the three regions of the north to complement efforts towards food security.&rafood security.»

Like food science, these areas fell under the faculty of agriculture, and some overlapping courses led me to become interested in fermentation processes.

This journey also led me to question three pillars of conventional wisdom about today's industrialized agrochemical agriculture: that it feeds the world, is a more efficient way to produce food and will be necessary to feed the future.

Detailed global maps of key traits in higher plants have been made available for the first time, thanks to work led by researchers from the University of Minnesota's (UMN) College of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS).

If honey bees continue to decrease, it would lead to disastrous upheavals in agriculture and the food on our tables.

According to Lindsay Murray of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food's fisheries laboratory at Burnham - on - Crouch, who is leading the investigation, the surveys have found crabs across more than 100 square kilometres of the Norfolk coast and show that «the bank is part of an important crab fishery and breeding ground».

The Sequencing the Legends project is led by Professor Steve Moore Centre for Animal Sciences Director at the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), a combined University of Queensland and Queensland Government research institute.

Deepti Singh, the lead author of the study and a doctoral candidate in the Environmental Earth System Science program at Stanford, said changes in the monsoon are important, because farmers there are very dependent on rain - fed agriculture for food production both nationally and for export.

The United States leads the world in both soybean and corn production, while Canada ranks 7th and 11th, respectively, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

An international research team led by Jon Foley at the University of Minnesota has concluded that five basic changes in the way agriculture operates — and in the ways we eat — could double food production, yet decrease overall environmental impacts.

«Although many reports have addressed the effect of lactic acid bacteria on skin properties in subjects with skin diseases, such as atopic dermatitis, few studies have involved healthy humans,» explains lead investigator Hiromi Kimoto - Nira, PhD, of the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO) Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science (NILGS), Tsukuba, Japan.

Paleos often believe that agriculture leads to illness, by promoting a diet of grains and other processed foods, and that cancer is a recent aberration.

The team is led by Angelia Seyfferth, assistant professor in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, who worked with a group of research technicians and undergraduate researchers from diverse areas of study on the project, the results of which were recently published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, which is an American Chemical Society journal.

Although cellular agriculture advocates tend to dwell on the process — because they say it could lead to safer, more humane, and more sustainable food production — FDA looks only at the final product.

The new study, led by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization and published in Global Change Biology, quantifies the reductions in climate pollution from the degradation and clearcutting of forests.

In the household energy and food and agriculture sectors, the proposal with the biggest impact on both climate change and public health was a 10 - year programme in India to replace 150 million indoor biomass - burning stoves with low - emissions cooking stoves, according to lead author Paul Wilkinson, also at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Subsidence was not mentioned in the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's 2012 report on the state of world aquaculture, says Stephanie Higgins, a PhD geology student at the University of Colorado Boulder who led the study.

«Our findings will help us to engineer effective, specific bacteriophages, not just for C. diff infections, but for a wide range of bacteria related to human health, agriculture and the food industry,» says Rob Meijers from EMBL, who led the work.

He also leads the institute's Global Landscapes Initiative, which focuses on the nexus of global land use, agriculture, food security and environment.

Efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the agriculture and forestry sectors could lead to increased food prices — but new research identifies strategies that could help mitigate climate change while avoiding steep hikes in food prices.

StarAfrica — Two women - led farmers» organizations, the Bunadin Women's Organization and the Dordealah Farmers Organization in Nimba County in north - central Liberia, is this weekend scheduled to launch the first harvest of improved rice varieties being developed with the support of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and the Government of Liberia through the Ministry of Agriculture.

The Daily Blog — The CGIAR delegation was led by Director General of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nteranya Sanginga, and included the Director Generals of Africa - Rice, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) and Africa Harvest.

African Development Bank Group — The CGIAR delegation was led by Director General of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nteranya Sanginga, and included the Director Generals of Africa - Rice, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) and Africa Harvest.

Dr. Curtis Adams, Texas A&M AgriLife Research crop physiologist at Vernon, will lead a new project funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture in the Organic Transition Program.

But vegetarianism and especially veganism practiced over the long term can lead to serious nutrient deficiencies; and animal agriculture, properly carried out, can heal our soil from the depletion that happens when growing grains and other plant foods.

Adhering to these traditional concepts the US Department of Agriculture has concluded that diets, which reduce calories, will result in effective weight loss independent of the macronutrient composition, which is considered less important, even irrelevant.14 In contrast with these views, the majority of ad - libitum studies demonstrate that subjects who follow a low - carbohydrate diet lose more weight during the first 3 — 6 months compared with those who follow balanced diets.15, 16, 17 One hypothesis is that the use of energy from proteins in VLCKD is an «expensive» process for the body and so can lead to a «waste of calories», and therefore increased weight loss compared with other «less - expensive» diets.13, 18, 19 The average human body requires 60 — 65 g of glucose per day, and during the first phase of a diet very low in carbohydrates this is partially (16 %) obtained from glycerol, with the major part derived via gluconeogenesis from proteins of either dietary or tissue origin.12 The energy cost of gluconeogenesis has been confirmed in several studies7 and it has been calculated at ∼ 400 — 600 Kcal / day (due to both endogenous and food source proteins.18 Despite this, there is no direct experimental evidence to support this intriguing hypothesis; on the contrary, a recent study reported that there were no changes in resting energy expenditure after a VLCKD.20 A simpler, perhaps more likely, explanation for improved weight loss is a possible appetite - suppressant action of ketosis.