Agricultural

Now given where the traditional financial markets are trading right now – from the FTSE 100 to the S&P 500 as well as gold – it would seem appropriate to […]

The Trump administration announced $12 billion in aid for American farmers Tuesday to alleviate the pain of the trade war with China, trying to tamp down growing criticism in a […]

For the first time, scientists have put a figure on their important work transporting pollen between flowering plants. Experts at the government’s agriculture research centre, Agrosope, have calculated that the work of Swiss bees is worth CHF350 million ($365 million) annually.

Switzerland has earmarked an amount of $80 million to support the enhanced competitiveness of Ghanaian enterprises in the global market space, as well as help in government’s efforts at diversifying the Ghanaian economy.
Ghana has been classified by Switzerland’s State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) as a priority country for economic development, resulting in the signing of the Swiss co-operation strategy for Ghana.

Picking Alpha interview with Dame Ellen MacArthur, Founder, Ellen MacArthur Foundation. This interview was taken at the 10th Annual Forum For Agriculture in Brussels, Belgium. FFA, organized by Syngenta and European Land Owners Organization, is the leading agricultural forum in Brussels, that brings together the greatest trend setters in agriculture and agri policy from all over the world. Ellen MacArthur answers the following questions about Circular Economy:

Dan Gramza gives a brief review of the USA grains markets and their relationships with the EU grain markets.

The ban on cultivation of genetically modified organisms (GMO) in Switzerland, which expires at the end of 2017, will be extended for another four years, until 2021. Today the Parliament have approved, by 32 votes to two with two abstentions, the relevant revised federal law on genetic engineering. The research will continue to be possible. A motion to extend it until 2025 was rejected. The House of Representatives had previously agreed the extension to 2021.

With 25 votes against 18, the senators, contrary to the wishes of the Federal Council, decided that in Switzerland there will be no co-existence of GM and traditional crops.

The European Environment Agency says the continent is facing rising sea levels and more extreme weather, such as more frequent and more intense heat waves, flooding, droughts and storms because of climate change.

The document, called Climate change, impacts and vulnerability in Europe, revealed the cost to the economy had soared by about 80% over the last 30 years.

During the 1980s, the damages averaged about €7.6bn euro a year, but by the 2000s the figure had risen to €13.7bn, the report said. Overall between 1980 and 2013, the cost was nearly €393bn.