More sustainable production is needed to ensure food and nutrition for future generations, but sustainability faces hidden threats, claims the Worldwatch Institute.
Industry needs to ‘dramatically innovate’ if it is to come up with sustainable solutions to feed the world, says James Bauly of DSM, as he summarises his take away messages from the event.
Hydrocolloids specialist CP Kelco has said it intends to increase production of CMC (carboxymethyl cellulose) at its plant in Äänekoski, Finland in line with growing market demand.
Nestlé has encountered a “consistent deterioration in growth” in 2011-2012 in the US, its biggest market, according to analyst Andrew Wood at Sanford C Bernstein.
An unprecedented level of joint planning, innovation, and action between academia, governments, civil society and the food industry is required to battle the ‘double crisis’ that world hunger and high obesity rates are causing, warn researchers.
UK-based bakery firm Finsbury Foods has announced improved sales in a first quarter (Q1) trading driven by significant gains in its export business, but high commodity prices continue to squeeze profit margins.
Cloetta Fazer, the Swedish confectionery group, has finally lost
patience with its perennially underperforming Polish unit, deciding
to close the Gdansk-based company after failing to elicit an
improvement in its performance, writes...
Over the next year Dutch dairy ingredients firm DMV International
will pour in excess of €60 million into innovation through new
R&D facilities and ingredients processing plants - and all this
against the backdrop of an intended...
Economic growth can be positively influenced by improved nutrition,
the FAO said on September 11 in a special section of its annual
report, The State of Food and Agriculture 2001.
