Synopsis:
2.0.. agro: Agribusiness:
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 Some academics and sustainable farming advocates see this type of farming as one more push toward industrialising food production and making more farmers dependent on agribusiness.
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long criticized for promoting big agribusiness. When Kathryn Thomas wanted to turn her sheep into lamb chops,
long criticized for promoting big agribusiness. Under the Obama administration and the 2008 farm bill passed by Congress,
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To understand agribusiness in the future, consider a model that conveniently exists right now in the human-food interface.
making future agribusiness professionals some of the most highly skilled people on earth. Thomas Frey is the executive director
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Ruth Trench-Thiedeman is the people and performance manager at Landmark, one of Australias largest agribusiness companies.
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while agribusiness pushes forward with more new products. And the USDA is not only helping the industry move ahead with those products,
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and unlock new opportunities for millions of our farmers and agribusinesses, #he added. Nigeria s Minister of Agriculture, Akinwumi Adesina had introduced the Nigeria s Agricultural Transformation Action Plan (ATAP) last year to provides a comprehensive government strategy that will reduce the cost of food imports,
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I could understand from the ground up the new forces at work in rural Africa and in farming and agribusiness in the region.
Multinational agribusinesses see similar opportunities in Africa, albeit on a grand scale, and have been buying up land in recent years,
And a recent World bank report entitled#oegrowing Africa#argues that African agribusiness could be a trillion-dollar market by 2030#riple
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the technology has bestowed most of its benefits on agribusiness#almost always through crops modified to withstand weed-killing chemicals
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But not when it interferes with the priorities of agribusiness. Agricultural riders Another rider gives one agency namely the U s. Department of agriculture (USDA) the right to scrutinize
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Consider the eye-opening case of the agribusiness firm Syngenta and its product atrazine a widely used agricultural pesticide on corn sorghum and sugar cane crops.
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and tomorrow's agribusinesses need to embrace smarter farming methods. Fortunately the technology to do so is available and working right now.
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in order to prevent conflicts between environmentalists agribusiness and recreation.</</p><p>Scenic San Francisquito Creek drains the eastern Santa cruz mountains trickling through the hamlets of Portola Valley
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In late August Nestlã the world's largest food company rocked animal agribusiness when it teamed up with humane organizations to announce groundbreaking reforms in the way chickens pigs cows
While the food industry is making great strides in supporting humane changes some agribusiness leaders still resist improvements.
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and some key agribusiness food and retail companies are considering joining the effort. Climate smart agriculture is a space that bears watching
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or health and in the pockets of agribusiness as many anti-GMO websites will make you believe.
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Yet Beachy's arrival also underscores the often-close ties between US agribusiness and federal research.
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and will monitor the experimental crops closely before considering requests from agribusiness for full-scale GM maize planting.
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The Council of ministers then makes a decision on the crop that applies to farmers and agribusinesses throughout Europe.
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and other agribusiness companies might be affected if they cannot gain patents in some countries, as Monsanto have failed to do in Argentina.
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or agribusiness companies, including Syngenta Seeds in Slater, Iowa and General mills in Le Sueur, Minnesota.
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The seeds will compete with another maize strain unveiled last July by Swiss agribusiness Syngenta.
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agribusiness giant Syngenta, based in Basel, Switzerland, conducted the first field trials of maize (corn) containing engineered mini-chromosomes,
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Our public research institutions must shift their focus back to farmers'needs rather than support the agenda of agribusiness
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The legislation includes clauses supported by agribusiness and small landowners that scale back federal authority and grant immunity from prosecution for all deforestation before 2008.
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meanwhile, agribusinesses Dupont and Monsanto have chipped in more than $4 Â million apiece. The labels would not reflect how the crops have been modified,
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Agribusiness giant Monsanto, based in St louis, Missouri, has applied to plant 700,000 hectares of genetically modified maize (corn) in the country,
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The study was funded by research organizations but also quite a few agribusiness companies that hold interest in plant breeding such as Monsanto Syngenta Hortigenetics among others. o
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and recovery tool against agribusiness deforestation a new study from Indiana University and Brazil's Oswaldo Cruz Foundation has found.
and sustained vegetation recovery in areas that were deforested previously by agribusiness in the tropical savannas or cerrado of Brazil.
Neotropical Savanna Recovery Amid Agribusiness Deforestation in Central Brazil the deforested area under indigenous management inside the Pimentel Barbosa Indigenous Reserve decreased from 1. 9 percent in 2000 to 0. 6
In contrast deforestation in surrounding lands remaining under agribusiness management increased from 1. 5 percent to 26 percent during the same period.
the formation of islands of environmental conservation surrounded by large-scale agribusiness he said. Brondizio is a professor in the IU Bloomington College of Arts
but how to achieve long-term sustainability of indigenous lands that are subsumed increasingly by agribusiness expansion.
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Jennie Popp professor of agricultural economics and agribusiness; and Marty Matlock professor of biological and agricultural engineering in addition to Thoma--partnered with researchers at Michigan Technological University.
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because our current agribusiness-based diets provide very low levels of DHA--among the lowest in the world.
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However facing mounting pressure from agribusiness retail and other industries the FAA is expected to release new policies by 2015 that will enable businesses to integrate drones into their operations.
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These pressures inspired a backlash from agribusiness interests who lobbied to reduce the burden put on landowners to conserve
The new Forest Code is the product of a long and bitter debate in the Brazilian congress fueled by tensions between the agribusiness lobby government enforcement agencies and conservationists.
The agribusiness lobby should see this as a big win explains lead author Britaldo Soares-Filho of the Federal University of Minas gerais (UFMG)
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and converting forests into agribusinesses to launder their drug profits the researchers say. Much of this appears to be a response to U s.-led anti-trafficking efforts especially in Mexico said Kendra Mcsweeney lead author of the Science article and an associate professor of geography at The Ohio State university.
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Agribusiness is greener than urban farmingthis leafy stuff went to market, and went'CO2 CO2 CO2'all the way there.
when compared to the honed efficiencies of agribusiness. Don't get me wrong --I'm an environmentalist,
not an agribusiness executive, writes Will Boisvert in The New york Observer. But I'm an environmentalist who can do math, and the numbers...
and trucks that haul mountains of agribusiness cabbages and cucumbers and whatnot around the country trounce local vans in ton-miles per gallon-the jargon of freight fuel efficiency.
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but my guess is very little--at least based on an article about agribusiness that I've been reading this afternoon online that will appear in the next issue of the Natural resources Defense Council's Onearth Magazine.
I bet you never expected the word hybrid to be associated with agribusiness strategy, but that's exactly what this article is all about.
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What's more, it has been able to make that claim for the past three years across an enormous variety of business interests from hotel chains to agribusiness.
agribusiness unit and an information technology services unit (the aforementioned ITC Infotech. From the company's sustainability report:
a program that supports its agribusiness interests by connecting rural farmers not just with ITC but with each other.
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Although international agribusiness has generated great profits ever since the East India Company, it hasn't brought riches to farmers and farmworkers,
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IBM analytics technology helps Sun World use drip irrigation to decrease its water usage by 8. 5%.That difference is readily apparent in a new agribusiness case study that was brought to my attention by the IBM mid-market group.
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is piloting an environmental monitoring system that helps agribusiness concerns be smarter about how much water they use.
vice president of business development for Climateminder, said the company will target its technology at farms in prime California agribusiness districts such as Oxnard, Salinas and Watsonville.
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I did not use the term agribusiness Â--you might want to read about the four individuals who are recognized just through the Natural resources Defense Council (NRDC) Growing Green Awards.
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We have had solutions in the agribusiness space for some time. We though it would help advance the food industry by offering these components together,
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Putting some numbers behind agribusiness growth potentialreceived two separate notices of agribusiness research studies late last week.
All of this is mapped against investment opportunities across the agribusiness landscape: fertilizers, biofuels, irrigation equipment, management and infrastructure development.
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"Instead of buying land through a foreign entity, they are buying stakes in local agribusiness that are controlling these lands."
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U s. attitudes about feeding the world are likely to change too. oemany of the agribusinesses
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