Unilever on the future of agriculture: productivity and technology

Posted by Helen Dunnett on 09/04/09

At the recent Forum for the Future of Agriculture (see previous posts below), we asked Willem-Jan Laan, Director of Global External affairs at Unilever for his views on the future of agriculture and the role of technology within it. View his comments in the video below.

FAO: Europe’s role as a supplier of food will diminish

Posted by Helen Dunnett on 24/03/09

At the Forum for the Future of Agriculture, organised jointly by Syngenta and the European Landowners’ Organization (ELO) last week, we spoke to Alexander Sarris, Director in the Commodities and Trade Division at the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
He gave us some insights into the role of technology in agriculture, the productivity gap that [...]

The bee season returns and experts continue to search the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder

Posted by Helen Dunnett on 20/02/09

Bees are a fundamental part of sustainable agriculture. Bees and other pollinating insects are responsible for the pollination of more than 80% of crops in Europe. So it’s been extremely worrying to see a mass decline in them over the past years. It’s got to such a critical point that this year the EU [...]

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