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...Earthworm now works with 30 major suppliers in Europe that provide agricultural products like grains, oil seeds, potatoes and sugar beet to different food brands....
...Between the rolling skit on actual discontinued product lines (“Sugar Daddy Ken!”)...
...Thailand’s Office of the Cane and Sugar Board has forecast that domestic sugar cane production will drop to 70-80mn tonnes this year from 94mn tonnes in 2022....
...Chart of the day As the planet continues to heat up, violence against “land and environmental defenders” has increased, according to a report from Global Witness, a climate activist group....
...(FT) Crisis pushes Japan Inc to bury old rivalries A little-noticed merger in Japan’s shrinking sugar industry is providing a template for the creation of national champions in sectors as diverse as motorcycles...
...Until it sold its sugar and syrup business in 2010, Tate & Lyle struggled to convince analysts that it was in fact a high-tech ingredients producer....
...Tucked at the back was Sutherland’s “Plastic Free Land”, where the activist had brought together six exhibitors....
...Peter Land, a former head of corporate communications at PepsiCo, said she understood why she received attention for her gender “but also bristled against it....
...Only 20 years ago, the land outside Karachi was fertile, in large part thanks to ample supplies of water....
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...After the war, he co-founded Kuok Brothers with his older brothers and a cousin, trading in rice, wheat and sugar. He went on to gain control of Malaysia’s sugar industry....
...Sir Alan Sugar did little to hide his disdain for City smart-alecks. Renishaw founder David McMurty openly admits he regrets taking the engineer public....
...TTC Corporation, a sugar, energy, real estate and tourism conglomerate, is also diversifying into solar....
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...Researchers such as Robert Lustig of the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine say that liquid sugar is especially dangerous, partly because it suppresses hunger less than sugar ingested...
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...The US soft drinks giant is now considering building an agri-processing plant to source its own sugar for its products....
...This US food rebellion, on one level, reflects growing concerns, particularly among young people of the millennial generation, about the health consequences of eating products that are full of sugar, salt...
...“You have to understand that Sri Lanka is a small country with a growing population, with simply a growing need for land, and coconut land is probably flat land and most suitable for housing and real estate...
...Apart from textiles, sugar and timber are Swaziland’s only other export industries. The phasing out of EU subsidies for the country’s sugar in 2017 is the next big challenge for the economy....
...But in the land of the free there’s now, predictably, a range of drinks called “open source colas” that reveal all their ingredients, featuring the likes of citrus oils, coriander, nutmeg and lavender....
...Cofco will pay $1.5bn for a 51 per cent stake in Noble’s sugar, soyabean, and wheat operation, Noble Agri....
...Sugar is a second area of focus, after grains, given Cofco’s roster of processed food brands. In 2011 it bought Tully Sugar, an export sugar mill operator in Australia....
...(Bloomberg) “Pfizer Inc, the Indian unit of U.S. drug maker Pfizer Inc, is to take over local affiliate Wyeth Ltd, they said on Saturday after their boards approved the deal....
...In India, many believe intensive cultivation has damaged land fertility and strained north India’s water table, while many small farmers have been ruined by investing in expensive seeds that fail if there...
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