Sentences with phrase «of big agribusiness»

The migration of over one million white - eared kob, tiang, and Mongalla gazelle starts in the southern Sudan but crosses the border into Ethiopia and Gambela where Fred Pearce at Yale360 reports it is running into the rapid expansion of big agribusiness.

Witness for example how corn ethanol, the darling of big agribusiness, some farmers, the oil industry and many environmentalists — has fallen out of favor in public perception.

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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.

Wellard chief executive Mauro Balzarini has sold a big chunk of his stake in the local agribusiness to a Chinese firm and repaid the company $ 16.3 million through his private investment vehicle.

SAO PAULO — Brazil ethanol producers stand to lose a big chunk of their largest market, Japan, to U.S. agribusiness, after Tokyo bent to pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump and tweaked requirements for gasoline additives.

In the past 20 years the vast majority of small pork producers have given way to big agribusiness, and the big guys resorted to regularly dosing their animals with antibiotics to keep disease from spreading through thousands of hogs kept in close quarters.

National Australia Bank, the country's biggest agribusiness lender, is moving to change its policies so that credit assessments put more weight on the sustainability of farmers» business practices.

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.

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.

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.

First, it managed to bring together, in the same room and quite often around the same discussion table, representatives of the biggest corporations in food and agribusiness (e.g. Coles and Woolworths); state, federal and local government officers; individual farmers; scientists and academics; and members of the growing community food sector.

Agribusinesses should never dictate the quality of school meals... Big food companies have their priorities, which include selling cheap, unhealthy foods at high profits.

The existing economies of scale available to «Big Pharma» and agribusiness conglomerates will drop the price point of narcotics dramatically (presumably offset by a vice tax).

Oddly, he has promised to «fight the efforts of big oil and big agribusiness to undermine» corn - based ethanol.

Four to watch in 2014 Kauai's GMO rules: A big fight erupted on the small island of Kauai when the county council required agribusinesses to disclose use of pesticides and genetically modified crops.

Wilmar International, a Singapore - based company that bills itself as Asia's biggest agribusiness group, has come under fire for several of its plantation projects in Nigeria.

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.

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.

No additives means your body gets more of what it needs and not what big agribusinesses use to pad their bottom line.

The rest effectively comes from my bearish calls, i.e. stocks I missed out on (vs. the index)-- ironically, the biggest performers in this category were Food & Agribusiness stocks (like Glanbia (GLB: ID), for example), of which I'm usually quite fond.

Many of her projects relate to corporate branding, especially with regard to entities that control natural resources, such as Big Oil and agribusiness.

I think we need a new kind of agriculture — kind of a third agriculture, between the big agribusiness, commercial approach to agriculture, and the lessons from organic and local systems....

As Jason Clay, senior vice president of the World Wildlife Fund, writes, «I think we need a new kind of agriculture — kind of a third agriculture, between the big agribusiness, commercial approach to agriculture, and the lessons from organic and local systems.»

Before he got the gig at the Minerals Council he used his talents to promote the interests of big food and agribusiness.

Conflicts over mining, hydropower and agribusiness are the biggest drivers of deaths, with most victims from indigenous groups and rural communities.

The reason Gibbs cites the transition from most of forest clearing being done by small - scale farmers (as was the case in the 80s) to agribusiness (from the 1990s onward), is that «Big agribusiness tends to be more responsive to global economic signals as well as pressure campaigns from advocacy organizations and consumer groups than individual small farmers.»

It's because big agribusiness interests have been successful so far in preventing any legislation that could have banned the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in the name of the bottom line.

Assisted Agribusiness team in gathering information on customer requirement and closing of big loans.