There is the need for urgent innovation to drastically improve farming practices. (Image source: Brian Evans/Flickr)
Speaking on the topic of World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought 2019, held on 17 June 2019, Andre Laperrière, executive director of Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN), highlighted the importance to improve food security and address the urgent climate emergency
Future Food Institute and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have launched a partnership to promote food innovation in the agribusiness sector
Award given in recognition of East-West Seeds contribution to improving nutrition and creating sustainable economic opportunities for small farmers around the world. (Image source: Kiril Dobrev/Pixabay)
The USA Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and President of the World Food Prize Foundation Kenneth M Quinn announced Simon N Groot of Bangkok-headquartered company East-West Seed (EWS) as the 2019 World Food Prize Laureate
Agrilan 1028 aims to add crop protection products to fertiliser solutions and aids the mixing of multiple active ingredients in tank mix formulations. (Image source: Nouryon)
Nouryon is launching an ingredient for the agricultural market to help fertiliser and crop protection products to be combined in a single mix
The aim is to speed up superior quality hybrid tomato breeding programme. (Image source: kie-ker/Pixabay)
Innovative agtech company Seed-X and tomato seed breeding company TomaTech have announced a new pilot of GeNee Breeder, a seed phenotype analysis system that aims to provide a real-time classification of a wide range of genetic traits in vegetable, row crop seeds and grains
