Africa will be home to 25% of the global population in 2050, and the demand for animal-sourced food is projected to be extraordinarily high on that continent in the coming decades, but production will be challenged to keep pace with consumption, says...
Dispatches from World Nutrition Forum in Cape Town
Policymakers globally have been weighing up the benefits of taxing meat, much in the same way as sugar, carbon emissions and tobacco. However, a Zurich based scientist and entrepreneur believes such a levy on meat would be disastrous.
Feed crop and agricultural producer sentiment about the year and future in declining, after a brief uplift in expectation in August, say industry analysts.
Food production is increasingly competitive and with that comes rising pressure around feed safety but big data, strong validation of controls and knowing your supply chain from farm to fork can help, say experts at Kemin's feed safety conference...
Aller Aqua, which produces fish feed for freshwater and saltwater aquaculture, is participating in SDG Accelerator, a UNDP initiative aimed at fast-tracking the private sectors impact on the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
BioMar recently asked commodity supply chains risk assessment provider, NEPCon, to scrutinize its soy value chain in Brazil, as part of the Danish company’s source-to-market rating process of its raw material portfolio – Sustainable Solutions Steering.
The INvertebrateIT consortium led a matchmaking event at Aqua 2018 in Montpellier, France, aimed at connecting aquaculture farming and feed companies, researchers, investors and any other parties interested in the use of land and marine invertebrates...
Danish feed company, Aller Aqua, launched an updated fry feed portfolio, including reformulations of existing products and a new product for larvae and small fry at Aqua 2018 in France this week.
Big data is all about the volume and veracity of data but smart data considers whether the data is useful or not for a particular stage in the value chain, says Dr Tomas Norton, based at the Division of Animal and Human Health Engineering, KU Leuven in...
The growing middle class in Africa is driving change throughout that continent’s poultry production value chain, encouraging greater local and international investment in required supporting infrastructure, says Rabobank.
The use of AgTech needs to go beyond a focus on the farmer and integrate other parts of the production chain including feed mills and processors, says Robert Walker, CEO of Keenan, the Alltech owned cattle feed machinery business.
Major retailers and manufacturers have pledged zero deforestation by 2020 but are they ready to buy sustainable soy and is communication with the feed sector strong enough?
The depressed protein content of oil meals combined with the lack of sufficient growth in fuel and fermentation co-products is encouraging the development of novel sources of protein, says Sara Girardello head of LMC International’s starch research team.
