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EU and Tradin Organic to boost regenerative organic cocoa production in Sierra Leone

With EU support, global organic ingredient supplier Tradin Organic has launched a $2.5 million project supported to scale its sustainable cocoa project in Sierra Leone. The three-year project will target deforestation prevention and improving farmer livelihoods by building regenerative agroforestry systems. Tradin Organic assists over 30,000 smallholder farmers in Sierra Leone to produce fair, sustainably […]

Ciranda offers reduced sugar syrups

Ciranda’s new line of organic and non-GMO reduced sugar syrups from agave and tapioca can be used as a single syrup replacement for traditional syrups or combined to create the perfect sweetener solution for food applications Tapioca Syrup RS18 is a clear, mildly viscous syrup produced from tapioca starch using non-GMO enzymes. It has a […]

Unfair U.S. trade practices undermine Mexico’s food self-sufficiency efforts

New report reveals how U.S. agricultural dumping has led to lost income for Mexican farmers, increased dependency on imports for food staples and high import costs with today’s high prices A new report from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy’s Timothy A. Wise documents how the United States’ practice of agricultural dumping of cheap exports into […]

Mexico emphasizes right to ban imports of GMO white corn

The Mexican people support their government’s ban on the use of genetically modified white corn for manufacturing flour and tortillas. The ban will also have little impact on the Mexican food industry. Mexico gave in to U.S. demands to allow imports of GMO yellow corn for animal feed but the ban introduced by the government […]

Ciranda offers reduced sugar syrups

Ciranda’s new line of organic and non-GMO reduced sugar syrups from agave and tapioca can be used as a single syrup replacement for traditional syrups or combined to create the perfect sweetener solution for food applications. Tapioca Syrup RS18 is a clear, mildly viscous syrup produced from tapioca starch using non-GMO enzymes. It has a […]