Archives for September 29, 2023

Future of farming: Robertet first to acquire AI 'BioPod' for sustainable ingredient production

French natural ingredient specialists Robertet has become the first commercial partner to acquire a newly created AI 'BioPod' to accelerate production, optimise plant composition, and minimise environmental impact of its crop growth.

Food producers take controlled environment agriculture to space

New research and ongoing projects are growing food in space-mimicking conditions to develop new controlled environment agriculture (CEA) approaches.

Consumers prefer ‘free-from’ palm oil to ‘sustainably produced’ palm oil claim, study finds

Palm oil is often linked to deforestation. A recent study found that German consumers are far more comfortable with ‘free from’ palm oil claims on products than ‘sustainably produced’ claims. This, according to the study, belies the complexity of the...

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Ghana reverses years of neglect with new initiative to make its cocoa more attractive and sustainable to a younger generation

The country’s cocoa production sector is under serious threat with climate change, disease, moribund farms, overaged tree stock, an aging farmer population, and an acute labour shortage, just some of the issues affecting productivity … that is why we...