AgrotechWith FAO's free Open Foris Ground app and its WHISP checker, the Toroton cooperative in Nandi County mapped its members' coffee plots in six weeks and showed buyers none had been deforested.
AgribusinessThe fourth WhoMadeMyCotton study finds that brands lose track of cotton closest to the farmer, and argues that gins and lasting relationships with growers, not data alone, can close the gap.
Bangladesh has about 42 per cent more shrimp farmland than India but exports far less; the commerce minister urged digital traceability from farm to export and protection of workers' rights.
Pesticide residue, weak traceability and soaring airfreight costs are holding back Bangladesh's vegetable exports, a Swisscontact roundtable in Dhaka heard, with public and private speakers calling for a coordinated effort from field to shipment.
Regulation minister David Seymour has accepted recommendations making GS1 digital-link QR codes the default, a framework rather than a law that lets packaging carry batch, best-before, weight, price and recyclability data; Woolworths trials in Australia cut food waste by up to 40%, and the codes als
SAPPO's 2026 AGM heard that since November 2025 the industry has handled the country's largest African swine fever outbreak and 17 FMD incidents in commercial piggeries; revised Section 9 controls came in July, 200,000 vaccine doses were logged on its World of Pork platform, global location numbers
AgribusinessThe government was going to introduce traceability for a range of food items to find out at which stage between farm and retail prices rise, Commerce Minister Khandaker Abdul Muktadir said at a CPD dialogue in Dhaka on 30 July 2026.
