Scientists have found that the compound resveratrol, found naturally in foods like grapes and nuts, slows age-related deterioration and functional decline of mice on a standard diet, but does not increase...

A new Senate inquiry is to examine how Australia can produce enough food for itself and maintain its major export capacity in the face of global warming. The inquiry will be chaired by Senator Bill Heffernan,...

The National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) is calling on the Australian Government to actively petition for new accounting rules under the Kyoto Protocol to ensure agriculture’s sequestration of...

International and local dairy experts have warned that dairy farmers must be rewarded for developing and implementing sustainability initiatives if the industry is to overcome the challenges of climate...

ICM, Inc., a US leader in the ethanol industry, has announced that ethanol biorefineries will be capable of commercially producing both food and fuel in 2010. “We are talking about the ‘ethanol...

A new horizontal pillow-pack machine Pack-401 by Tevopharm for use with confectionery and food products can produce an output of up to 400 products per minute and provide optional integration of Delta...

DuPont science will help the world’s farmers increase their productivity and meet the growing global demand for grain, said William Niebur, DuPont vice president – DuPont Crop Genetics Research...

FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf yesterday appealed to world leaders for US$30 billion a year to re-launch agriculture and avert future threats of conflicts over food. In an impassioned speech at the...

West Australian Premier, Alan Carpenter, has called for better labelling of foods that contain Genetically Modified (GM) ingredients and an immediate halt to the approval of all GM foods in Australia until...

Thomas Dux, Woolworths latest attempt to increase their share of the grocery industry, is destined to fail, according to past history cited by Tim Morris, from New Zealand-based Coriolis Research. “I...