Codema Systems Group’s operational director Antoine Kapteijns has highlighted Codemas approach to securing quality in customised horticultural solutions
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Argus acquires agricultural specialist Agritel

Agritel’s data and analysis tools will help farmers and agro-industrial companies manage risk in agricultural commodity markets. (Image source: Catkin/Pixabay)
Global commodity information service Argus has purchased Agritel, provider of information, consulting and forecasting on agricultural and agro-industrial markets
Cooperative model helping sustainable cashew supply chains in Asia and Africa

Cooperatives can act as a powerful vehicle for driving equality, innovation and behaviour change in rural communities. (Image source: Bishnu Sarangi/Pixabay)
Mallikarjuna Kumaraswamy, vice-president for OIam’s cashew business, has explained three ways the cooperative model is helping reimagine sustainable cashew supply chains
DuPont drives solutions for plant-based food and beverage companies

DuPont is set to support the shift to a more plant-based diet by creating multiple options. (Image source: Julio César García/Pixabay)
DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences (DuPont) has launched Danisco Planit with an aim to provide a range of ingredients for plant-based product development in food and beverage industry
Rothamsted Research discovers what make high carbon soils so valuable

The negative impacts of increased leakiness of the soil system include nutrient loss to the atmosphere and rivers. (Image source: StockSnap/Pixabay)
Founded on more than 50 years’ worth of data from a unique field experiment, researchers have demonstrated that common farming practices drain the soil of carbon, altering the structure of soils’ microscopic habitat and the genetics of microbes living within it, according to the team of microbiologists and physicists led by Rothamsted Research