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...It also entails not tilling the fields, as doing so damages their soil structure as well as releasing carbon stored in the soil into the air....
...Given the size of Casino’s workforce and its range of suppliers from dairy farmers to vegetable producers, the French government is closely monitoring events....
...That also gives the fund a mid-cap bias. The fund has in its top holdings agriculture business Deere, water company Xylem, and Darling Ingredients....
...His citations include some of America’s earliest farmers’ markets and the “Fast Good” movement of organic chains such as Sweetgreen and Cava....
...Even the most technologically advanced indoor farm starts with a very basic problem. When you take sunlight out of the equation you gain more control, but you also lose a whole lot of free energy....
...Revenues from all of J&J’s prescription drugs were $16.8bn compared to $6.6bn for the entire consumer business, which includes not just baby products but well-known brands such as Listerine and Neutrogena...
...“tail risk” funds, also known as “black swan” funds, which protect against market volatility but profit from it too....
...South East Asia Gas Pipeline Company, as it is known, did not respond to questions from the Financial Times....
...Swami’s farm is in the mountains, at the heart of the prime cannabis-growing region known as the Emerald Triangle....
...“My friends in San Francisco and New York say they don’t see how I can do this from Kansas City,” says Mike Farmer, Leap2’s boss, who ticks all the boxes for a start-up entrepreneur: check shirt, Nike trainers...
...Plump profit margins in the US chicken business may be about to fly the coop, a top food and agriculture investor warned as he hinted at listing shares in a poultry producer he controls....
...Farms versus industry For all the accusations of water hogging made against Coke or any other business, however, industry comes a very distant second to the world’s biggest water users: farmers....
...Cargill’s agriculture services business, which buys farmers’ grain and sells them seeds, fertiliser and insurance, also suffered because of the drought....
...The Senate this week passed a $500bn, five-year farm bill that will cut the budget for food stamps, officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, by $4.1bn during the next decade....
...The Italian agricultural ministry invented the agriturismo scheme in 1985 as a way to keep Italian farmers on the land, allowing them to use their buildings to tap into Italy’s rich tourism market....
...A micro-roastery run by an expert team of award-winning Danes – roasters, buyers and baristas – beans are sourced directly from farmers around the world, with sustainability and fair trade, as well as quality...
...A dying farmer gives up his eldest daughter as slave to a blood-drinking monster on condition that he delivers the other two daughters to safety....
...Their partnership continued at Arcadia in 2001, and at M&S in 2004. Mr Wilson is regarded as having a brilliant business mind, but he is also genuinely charming and personable....
...Recent food riots teach the same lesson: that markets, as much as harvests, determine who gets to eat....
...from Nestlé to Coca-Cola and Kraft, though it is much less well-known as a name....
...And the West Midlands is smarter in the way it markets its produce – it is getting better at telling the world what it has to offer, farm shops and farmers markets are pulling in customers looking for fresher...
...Then in September 2005, there were reports of legislators in the state assembly demanding subsidy on cola drinks so that farmers can use them as pesticide on their farms....
...“It is not about saying to farmers: you have the right to continue selling as much coffee as you can produce at this price forever,” he says. “We can’t permanently guarantee a market for them....
...After law school, Strine worked as a clerk for two judges before joining the best-known US corporate law firm: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher Flom....
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