Nieuws over trends in landbouw en voedsel

Columbia Basin potato processors slowed down during the West Coast port impasse, making fewer potatoes into french fries, hash browns and other potato products shipped around the world.

According to the Canadian Healthy Eating Consumer Trend Report, consumers place an increasingly high priority on health, and more are seeking healthy options away-from-home, but their behaviour and attitudes towards healthy eating are evolving.

Black Gold Farms, an industry leader in potato production, sales and marketing, recently acquired the legacy potato production operation, George Wood Farms located near Camden, NC.

Insort GmbH is one of the winners of the International FoodTec Awards in the category GOLD. Insort received the award for its Sherlock Food Analyser (Sherlock Analyst).

Domestic potato production could amount to 4.5 million tons this year, said the president of the Peruvian National Potato Producers Coordinator (Corpapa), Edilberto Soto Tenorio.

A esa conclusión llegaron los investigadores del CIP que presentaron los resultados de su trabajo en el congreso de la ALAP de Bogotá.

The 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee submitted its recommendations to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, in order to inform the 2015 edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

Resumen de la ponencia que sobre el tema se presentó en el último congreso de la ALAP celebrado en septiembre del 2014 en Bogotá.

Resultados del trabajo adelantado en Argentina, cuyos resultados fueron presentados en el último congreso de ls ALAP.

It’s time to celebrate Prince Edward Island Potatoes this winter, because February is PEI Potato Lovers Month in Canada!

McDonald's Corporation today announced that global comparable sales decreased 1.8% in January, mainly due to a 12.6% drop in comparable sales in Asia/Pacific, Middle East and Africa (APMEA).

Según la ponencia que investigadores del CIP presentaron en el congreso de la ALAP de Bogotá.

Fruit Logistica 2015 attracted a record number of 65.000 trade visitors, up from 62.000 in 2014.

In France, a major three year long campaign to promote the consumption of potatoes just started.

Alarmed by rapid deforestation in an ecologically sensitive swath of central Minnesota, state regulators have ordered a broad environmental review that will temporarily halt conversion of the region’s jackpine stands to potato fields.

The FAO Food Price Index averaged 182.7 points in January 2015, down 3.6 points (1.9 percent) from its revised (reduced) December 2014 value. Cereals and Oil Prices registered the strongest declines

Snyder's-Lance, Inc. announces Clearview Foods, a new snack food division with a focus on developing innovative and better-for-you snacking options.

Een nieuwe, revolutionaire methode om nieuwe aardappelrassen te kweken kan een flinke impuls geven aan fotosynthese-onderzoek. Daarom treedt Solynta, de ontwikkelaar van de kweekmethode, toe tot BioSolar Cells