The Fairtrade Foundation has launched a 3-year program in India to grow organic, non-GMO cotton in a move to help farmers access higher-value markets.
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The Fairtrade Foundation has launched a 3-year program in India to grow organic, non-GMO cotton in a move to help farmers access higher-value markets.
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Mexico’s Senate recently passed a federal law to promote and protect native corn.
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The organic food sector in the UK rose by 4.5% last year, with sales of online retail and home delivery surging by 11.2%.
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As questions of food security and food supply become more pressing for many governments in Africa, people are turning to innovative solutions to grow organic vegetables.
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Put into effect on January 1st, pesticide-free zones in France have angered winegrowers while civil society still considers them insufficient.
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Amid muddled certification processes and questions of affordability, India’s organic food startups struggle to earn consumers’ trust.
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The fruit’s global surge in popularity has fueled exports and attracted violent cartels to the trade in ‘green gold’.
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France’s health and environment agency said it was banning 36 glyphosate-based weedkillers at the end of 2020 because of health risks.
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China has published a new list of products that can be accepted for organic certification, and a set of revised organic certification regulations is expected by January 1, 2020.
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Food products produced using gene-editing technology could go on sale in Japan by the end of the year despite no specific labeling rules being in place.
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Chinese dairy company Mengniu is nearly set to take over Australia’s leading organic infant formula producer Bellamy for $1.5 billion.
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In a move that could drastically reduce herbicide use, LZH has developed technology that uses cameras to identify weeds and lasers to kill them without harming crops or soil.
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Thailand wants to remove from the market chlorpyrifos, glyphosate, and paraquat — all shown to be hazards to human health — but the Trump administration is putting up a fight to reverse this decision.
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The battle between conventional farmers and concerned citizens is reaching a boiling point in France.
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A leaked document shows Boris Johnson has no intention of maintaining high environmental standards after the UK leaves the EU.
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The Soil Association has launched a Brexit readiness support service to help organic businesses prepare for a possible no-deal scenario on October 31, something that would halt organic exports to the EU.
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Despite recent comments from government officials about the need for pesticides, Brazilian consumers are showing a very strong demand for chemical-free, organic food.
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Completely dismissing the country’s booming organic sector, Brazil’s agriculture minister said that the country’s warm climate requires the use of pesticides.
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In an investigation by the Pesticide Action Network, it was found that Germany exports highly toxic pesticides that are banned in the EU.
Read Article In his inaugural speech, Boris Johnson said that he wants to “liberate the UK’s extraordinary bioscience sector from anti-genetic modification rules and let’s develop the blight-resistant crops that will feed the world.”
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Although the overall market size is not huge — $17M in sales — stores in Vietnam are suffering from shortages of organic food, as demand has outstripped supply.
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Politicians in Luxembourg have called for all farming practices become 100% organic by 2050, a step up from the country’s commitment to be 20% organic by 2025.
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For a country that understands the importance and growth of organic, Denmark believes that its supermarkets could be 30% organic by the end of the next decade. Amazing.
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One company is betting that Andean Lupin, a nutritionally-dense legume, will be the next big superfood.
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