Topic: Agriculture Sector

The Wal-Mart Blog: Day Two

Twice since November, Wal-Mart has made significant announcements about how it buys seafood. Wal-Mart is changing how it buys shrimp, and how it buys the wild-caught fish that it sells in grocery stores across North America (Wal-Mart ...READ»

The Farm Bill: Who Wins?

Cotton farmers in Africa work their fields by hand, without the tractors and irrigation systems of their wealthier Western counterparts. If there's a drought, there's no cotton. If monkeys or worms destroy their crops, there's no ...READ»

Rust Never Sleeps: How Bill Gates Might Save the World

Bill Gates just might save the world.READ»

Organic Cotton: The Fabric of Our Lives?

Admit it: you don't pay always attention to whether the products you buy contain organic cotton or regular cotton. Neither do I, so it's a good thing that major companies are taking it upon themselves to use organic ...READ»

Starbucks Loans Cash to Small-Scale Coffee Farmers

Complain all you want about Starbucks taking over the world--the company is at least trying to do some good in the process. The company announced plans last year to become the largest purchaser of Fair Trade coffee in the world. ...READ»

FAO: Farmers need fertilizers to fight famine

FAO: Farmers need fertilizers to fight famine (12/13/2007)   A leader of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations says he doesn't ...READ»

A Taste of the Honey Business

The bees of America have been working hard all summer: To make a pound of honey, they have to fly the equivalent of eight roundtrips between New York and Paris. Now it's time to enjoy the fructose of their labor. Have a taste of the facts and figures on honey.READ»

• Now September 2009
• Hobnob: Clinton Global Initiative

Beefonomics: Cargill Meat Solutions Turns Trash to Cash

How Cargill Meat Solutions is winning over grocers, consumers, and its employees -- and driving growth -- with its first entry into the branded beef business.READ»

• From Trash to Cash

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I am glad to join this group. I an agronomist who has been involved in one way or another in US and world agriculture since 1984. Please send me a note and introduce your self.  READ»

Mars Promises Candy from Sustainable Cocoa

Only a month after Cadbury announced its plan to buy fair-trade cocoa from Ghana, rival candy giant Mars has promised to source all chocolate products from sustainable suppliers by 2020. The move, which means the company will only buy ...READ»

"Baby," Maybe

Here's a question: Are "baby" carrots, the tasty, two-inch orange snacks in little bags, really baby carrots? The answer is a lesson in getting new growth from old products.READ»

World Potato Congress

Calling all fingerlings, russets, and Yukon Golds: This is your moment. This spud-promoting congress celebrates rising potato production in developing countries and continued carbfests in developed ones. And while four days may ...READ»

Agriculture 2.0: The First Sustainable Agriculture Investment Conference

While no one advocates that we should stop producing food, when the finger-pointing over climate change begins, the ag industry often gets an unfair shake. If agriculture is so disproportionally bad for the planet, shouldn't ...READ»

A Day in the Life of Work: Udder Artistry

In her 44 years as the butter sculptress at the Iowa State Fair, Norma Lyon has churned out statues of everything from cows to Elvis to the Last Supper.READ»

Greenpeace Ranks Sustainable Seafood in Grocery Stores, Wegmans Tops List

Greenpeace's third edition of the Carting Away the Oceans seafood sustainability scorecard brings some heartening news: over half of the leading U.S. supermarket chains have made progress in seafood sustainability. Many have ...READ»

Ten Best Green Jobs for the Next Decade

Massive investments in clean energy promise to keep farmers, urban planners, and green-tech entrepreneurs in business for the next decade. This guide to sustainability focused career paths will help solar-charge your work life.READ»

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• The Top Jobs for 2009
• What Should I Do with My Life, Now?

Solarix Sustainer: A Biodiesel Conversion System for the Survivalist

European biodiesel company Solarix has created what may be a sustainable powerhouse for rural areas: the Sustainer, a "power box" in a 20-foot container frame that converts oil-bearing crops and seeds into edible oil ...READ»

GM Agriculture Pros and Cons

According to “Bio: Biotechnology Industry Organization,” only 10% of the world’s land is arable.  They also state that by 2050, 50% of that land will be used for other purposes and the global population will have increased by ...READ»

Rest in Peace

Norman Rose, the voice of the iconic advertising character Juan Valdez, died this past weekend. As Valdez, an imaginary Colombian coffee farmer, Rose pledged to select "only the ripest beans."READ»

Juan More Time

Remember Juan Valdez, the donkey-toting cafetero (that's coffee farmer to the uninitiated) and official representative of the Columbian Coffee Federation? Well, the famed fictitious character, created in 1959, has finally returned. ...READ»

CowDetect RFID Tags Ensure That Dairy Cows Are Healthy, Productive

It doesn't prevent industrial dairy cows from being packed into small quarters, but the CowDetect RFID tracking system at least allows farmers to keep track of animal health and schedule milking and fertilization for maximum ...READ»

World Fisheries Congress

Clams, shrimp, spicy-tuna rolls: Yum! Global seafood consumption has tripled during the past 50 years. At the fifth World Fisheries Congress (October 20 -- 24) in Yokohama, Japan, sustainability -- of the $155 billion industry and the animals it depends on -- will be the big concern. Here are seven species on the menu.READ»

• Now October 2008
• Numerology: National Boss Day
• Meet: The Federal Open Market Committee

"What Does She Buy?" Lean, Tasteless Pork.

The latest in a series of visionary tales inspired by the great corporate marketing films of the last century.READ»

Dutch Design Masters, in Their Own Words

A delicious video archive for anyone interested in Dutch design, featuring studio visits with Philips, MVRDV, and 15 others.READ»

Can Robotic Cages Save Fish Farming?

Fish populations are dwindling rapidly due to widespread overfishing, and it's not likely to stop any time soon--the UN thinks that world seafood demand will grow 40% by 2030. And your beloved sushi restaurant might not exist for much ...READ»