Agri Vision hosts dialogue for food strategy

The Agri Vision 2011 hosts a dialogue about the future of global food strategy during the dialogue several factors essential to feeding the world of 2050 sustainably were identified. The factors include sustainable intensification, decoupling productivity from environmental impact, enabling rural entrepreneurs, broad partnerships, system transformation and greater investment in research.

Agri Vision 2011 was the sixth in the biennial series of multi-stakeholder agri-business conferences organised by Nutreco together with Rabobank. Nutreco has organised the alternating multi stakeholder business conferences Aqua Vision and Agri Vision since 1996. read more ....

This blog is written by Martin Little, The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine and the International Milling Directory from Perendale Publishers

Swedish Report finds, that animal welfare does not damage competitiveness

Farmers and politicians have expressed concern that Swedish and European agricultural producers do not compete on equal terms with the rest of the world because of stricter animal welfare legislation. A new report from the AgriFood Economics Center in Sweden shows that there is no justification for more tariffs based on the argument that stricter legislation would increase imports.

EU farmers hold their own well in competition with the rest of the world, despite the comparatively high demands the EU places on agricultural production. "We have investigated the connection between animal welfare regulation in the EU and competitiveness. Read more ...



This blog is written by Martin Little The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine from Perendale Publishers.