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Quest for New, Sustainable Sources of Energy and Healthier, More Abundant Food Supply

Renowned for its cuisine and chefs and as a global hub of the energy industry, New Orleans this week hosts what news media have described as the "World Series of Science," one of the year's largest and most important scientific conferences.

8 Apr 2013

Global Agenda Council on Biotechnology Identifies 10 Important Biotechnologies to Improve Daily Life

The Global Agenda Council on Biotechnology, one of the global networks under the World Economic Forum (WEF), which is composed of the world's leading experts in the field of biotechnology, announced today that the council has indentified "ten most important biotechnologies" which could help meet rapidly growing demand for energy, food, nutrition, and health.

26 Feb 2013

Farmers Need to be Empowered to Sustainably Intensify Agricultural Production

Bayer CropScience today renewed its commitment to working in strong collaborations with partners from governments, the industry and non-governmental organizations to help enhance global food security and economic development. “Innovation and partnerships are needed to achieve food security,” said Bayer CropScience CEO Liam Condon at a high-level press conference with Dirk Niebel, Germany’ Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, and Bill Gates, Co-Chair and Trustee of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in Berlin, Germany.

From Bayer MaterialScience AG 30 Jan 2013

Bayer CropScience CEO Calls for Greener Revolution in Agriculture

The time is now for a Greener Revolution in Agriculture, to increase the productivity of farming in a more sustainable and environmentally compatible way, said Bayer CropScience’s new CEO Liam Condon in his keynote address at the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) in Berlin today.

21 Jan 2013

Solar-Powered Chiller Container Prevents Spoilage of Harvests

A new product is set to roll out in India. It’s a food-storage device that uses solar panels to cool produce and preserve crops on their way to market, needed in India where 30 to 40 percent of the harvest is lost because of the lack of cold-chain facilities to store and transport food.

4 Dec 2012

FoodChek's Listeria spp. Assay Receives AOAC Performance Tested Method Certification

FoodChek Systems Inc. ("FoodChek" or the "Corporation") is very proud to announce that the AOAC Research Institute, the approval body for all U.S. food safety tests, has validated and certified as a Performance Tested Method ("PTM"), FoodChek's patent pending Actero(tm) Listeria Enrichment Media (License #111201) and the FoodChek(tm) Listeria spp. Assay Cassette (License #111202).

3 Dec 2012

Doctor's Wellness Solutions Celebrates Sale of 20,000,000 Bottles of ViaViente

Doctor's Wellness Solutions (D.W.S.) with its ViaViente product celebrates the company's 10th year anniversary and the ViaViente product achievement of 20,000,000 bottles sold in 26 countries and territories around the world.

3 Dec 2012

Green Apple Environment Award Recognizes Chemical-Free Arsenic Removal Project

Queen’s University Belfast has won a national environment award. The top award was for a national campaign for finding the greenest communities, councils and companies in Britain.

29 Aug 2012

Teagasc and FACCE – JPI Organize ‘The Great Debate on the Battle to Feed a Changing Planet’

Teagasc, the agriculture and food development authority in Ireland, and the EU Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE – JPI), have jointly arranged a scientific session - ‘The Great Debate on the Battle to Feed a Changing Planet.’

7 Jul 2012