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
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World Food Prize awarded to East-West Seed founder Simon N Groot

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
Nouryon launches ingredient to improve agricultural formulations

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
Seed-X and TomaTech use AI to accelerate hybrid tomatoes breeding

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
Corteva Agriscience completes separation from DowDuPont
Corteva, Inc has separated from DowDuPont, becoming a global pure-play agriculture company that offers solutions to maximise farming yield and profitability