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The beef with beef: how 12 strategies could drastically cut agricultural emissions

By : Sustainability ..., Apr 25, 2014

 Eating less beef, cutting food waste, and utilizing farm landscapes to sequester carbon are three ways a new report suggests the world could rapidly tackle agricultural emissions. Currently, global agriculture accounts for nearly a fifth of the world's greenhouse gas...

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Subject Tags: Entertainment , food

Climate change will lead to food shortages in India

By : Sustainability ..., Apr 21, 2014

The new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report – released in Yokohama, Japan on Monday – has set off warning bells across the world particularly for countries in South Asia which have huge coastlines. Greenpeace India has urged Indian...

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Subject Tags: food

Bihar's agriculture & food industry may touch Rs 1 lakh crore by next year: Study

By : Sustainability ..., Apr 17, 2014

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Buried in UN Report: $100 Billion More Needed to Adapt to ‘Global Warming’

By : Sustainability ..., Apr 2, 2014

 The United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) latest report estimates it will cost developed nations an additional $100 billion each year to help poorer countries adapt to the devastating effects of “unequivocal” global warming, including food...

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Investors backing companies providing clean technology, healthcare, food and education services

By : Anonymous, Mar 28, 2014
Angel investors who have preferred to watch over technology startups in India so far are now looking to include young companies from other sectors under their wings. 
 
As a rising tide of entrepreneurship spreads across the country, networks of...
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Food processing business holds great scope in region: experts

By : Sustainability ..., Feb 19, 2014

 A one-day seminar organised by the National Food Processing Mission explored the opportunities and challenges in the food processing sector. Experts, who participated in the event on Tuesday, urged young entrepreneurs and farmers to set up food processing business in the...

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Subject Tags: food

UAE's Etihad demonstrates flight with biofuel mix

By : Sustainability ..., Jan 20, 2014

Etihad Airways said on Sunday it has flown a Boeing 777 plane on a 45-minute demonstration flight powered in part by biofuel developed in collaboration with French firm Total.

The Abu Dhabi-based carrier has teamed up...

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Food and agri-business set to undergo unprecedented transformation

By : Sustainability ..., Jan 10, 2014

The food & agri sector is seeing double digit growth primarily buoyed by the export of processed food and the expansion of organised food retail brands in domestic market. For Processed Foods sector, the drivers for supply chain transformation are extremely compelling. Of...

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Looking Ahead: 7 Sustainability Trends for 2014 in India

By : Sustainability ..., Jan 2, 2014

As we all bid adieu to a year in which turbulence was the only stable (and ‘sustainable’) phenomenon, we foresee the following 7 key sustainability headlines holding center stage in the year ahead: 

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Subject Tags: Business , energy , food , India

Food Processing Sector Witnesses Fast Growth, Rising Exports in Recent Years

By : Sustainability ..., Dec 27, 2013

 The food processing sector has witnessed fast growth, employment generation and export earnings in the recent past. In major indicators, the growth in this sector has been better than other industries and the economy as a whole. On its part, the Ministry of Food Processing...

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