IT IS AMAZING how the Loop restaurant has turned food waste from supermarkets into a business by convincing its customers that ingredients that would otherwise be thrown out at the end of the day can still taste good. Pauli Hakala, chef and founder of the Loop in Helsinki, Finland, gets vegetables, mushrooms and other raw
Jakarta. Six foreign furniture companies with combined annual exports of $300 million have relocated their factories to Vietnam from Indonesia over the past 18 months due to cheaper labor costs and lax business regulations. “With our competitiveness weakening, and the cost of production here more expensive, [furniture companies] prefer Vietnam,” said Abdul Sobur, the deputy chairman for
Researchers in China have developed a genetic engineering approach capable of delivering many genes at once and used it to make rice endosperm — seed tissue that provides nutrients to the developing plant embryo — produce high levels of antioxidant-boosting pigments called anthocyanins. The resulting purple endosperm rice holds potential for decreasing the risk of
China is gobbling up major seed businesses to satisfy its growing appetite for food firms. Two weeks ago, state-owned ChemChina finalized its $44 billion purchase of the Swiss pesticides and seeds giant, Syngenta. It was China’s biggest foreign takeover of all time. You can read the whole article here.