Reinventing Olive Oil
Large olive producers, civil servants, and scientists get together. Their aim: to transform olive oil manufacture. Their market: an international one beyond the Mediterranean that will pay twice the current…
Read moreButter for Industry. Or Non-Food Uses of Farm Products
From Nick Trachet of the Brussel Nieuws The county of Flanders was in the Ancien Régime known as Butter Country. The peasants made and sold butter and lived on butter…
Read moreWhy is Sweden growing GM Potatoes?
For starch for industry, not for food, not now. ‘Development began in the mid-1980s, at the beginning of the revolution in biotech foods. A Swedish farmers’ cooperative, Lyckeby, one of…
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