France is getting serious about improving its food supply and requiring that all public sector food be local or organic by 2022.
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France is getting serious about improving its food supply and requiring that all public sector food be local or organic by 2022.
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As the market for organic food continues to explode, The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has introduced the Jaivik Bharat logo to help customers identify authentic organic food.
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In order to both help organic farmers and maintain a consistent supply of organic food to online retailers, the government in India is considering a proposal to act as a facilitator between the two parties.
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Credit insurer Coface said that organic farmers in France need to boost organic food production to meet the fast-growing demand or shoppers will increasingly turn to imports, which already accounts for 29% of the organic food consumed in the country.
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The Canada Organic Trade Association is reporting that 66% of Canadian shoppers are spending at least some of their weekly grocery budget on organic items, with millennials leading this trend.
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Seeking to expand the ingredient supply for its supplement brand Nutrilite, Amway is scaling up organic farming in India.
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Beginning in 2018, the French government will cut subsidies to organic farms but will continue to help fund farmers converting to organic.
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The IFC, a division of the World Bank, is planning to invest approximately $25 million in Suminter India Organics, one of the country’s leading exporters of organic produce.
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Currently, 7.5% of farmland in Germany is organic, but the country sees the scarcity of land available for organic farming as a threat to its long-term development.
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With 15% of French citizens eating organic on a daily basis, it should come as no surprise that the organic chocolate market experienced such rapid growth.
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Interestingly, while the UK suffered a 3% decrease in overall organic farmland, the area of land converting to organic grew by 22%.
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Soaring temperatures in the Arctic caused ice to melt, and the entrance to the “failsafe” Global Seed Vault was flooded. Fortunately, the seeds are all safe.
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A 27-year-old from Chennai quit his job in IT and developed a very unique program to encourage organic farming. And it’s working.
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With organic only comprising 1% total market share in the UK, versus 10% in Denmark, the Organic Trade Board is launching a three-year, $10M plan to help grow the sector.
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While France may have plenty of problems these days, getting its people to buy organic food is not one of them. Nearly 2/3rds of all households are now purchasing organic.
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In India, farmers are using WhatsApp groups to sell their organic fruits and vegetables. What’s even more impressive is that their prices are 50% less than their conventional counterparts.
Read Article As a way to crack down on fraudulent organic fruits and vegetables in India, a new barcode will allow consumers to identify the farmer, supplier and production date. Very cool.
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Sikkim, the state in India that has pledged to go 100% organic, appears to be running into challenges. Yet, when you look at the article/media outlet reporting this, it says that it is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s most powerful GMO propaganda machine.
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Arguably the most influential VC firm in Silicon Valley, Sequoia Capital, is close to taking a majority stake in Sresta Natural Bioproducts, India’s leading organic food company.
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Japan is looking to tighten its GMO-labeling laws, which currently have a threshold of 5%. The EU and Non-GMO Project both use a threshold of 0.9%.
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A cool story about how an American from Ohio created the first organic coffee farm on these treasured islands in Ecuador.
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Horrible news, but it was inevitable. Cuba will begin its first large-scale planting of genetically-modified soy and corn in the spring of 2017.
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For schools in France, a law was just passed that requires 40% of its food to be local & seasonal and 20% to be certified organic. Lucky kids!
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In Norway, organic is absolutely booming in the retail sector, skyrocketing 22% last year.
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