On October 13, INEOS announced it had signed an agreement with Reach Coal Seam Gas Limited to acquire an 80% stake in the exploration licence (PEDL 162) next to its first licence, in the central belt of Scotland, close to Grangemouth, which the British Geological Survey believes contains sig...
aMost thinking people must have remarked at some time or other that it doesn't make sense for half the population of the world to be in need of better food while governments and farmers elsewhere are worried by surpluses. For a number of years, until recently, North America and Australia...
American soybean farmers have lately taken a hit when it comes to exporting their products to one of its key destination markets, namely China, according to a briefreportfrom the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) earlier this month. China has included soybeans in the goods that it is target...
State officials warned that the banks' involvement in the global eco alliance may impact food availability, lead to price increases, limit credit access for farmers, and have broad negative economic consequences. "American agriculture is sending a clear signal: we will not bend the knee to the f...
In the monetary report, the Fed noted that views of Fed officials about the economic outlook had changed beginning in May as global growth slowed and U.S. businesses and farmers began to express “heightened concerns” about rising trade tensions. ...
A study by Swansea University of students internationally, found one-in-seven students outside Britain admitted to paying for assignments. Hinds added: "When I was at university I was struck by American friends who talked about the honor code system. They wouldn't consider even low-level plagia...
The January fashion show, called Future Fashion, exemplified how far green design has come. Organized by the New York-based nonprofit Earth Pledge, the show inspired many top designers to work with sustainable fabrics for the first time. Several have sin
up from fewer than a dozen two years ago.This week Wal-Mart is set to announce a major initiative aimed at helping cotton farmers go organic: it will buy transitional cotton at higher prices, thus helping to expand the supply of a key sustainable material.“Mainstream is about to occur,”...
As part of the initiative, the USDA will be required to support US farmers with “climate-smart” agriculture practices and research, including “genetic development, sustainable crop and forest management at scale, and post-harvest supply chain logistics”, and the same agency would also sup...
“St. Louis to remain the headquarters of the North American seeds business has been the plan from the start,” Bernstein analyst Jeremy Redenius said Tuesday in a telephone interview. The research spending, as well, doesn’t appear new, Redenius said. Bayer and Monsanto said in a joint st...