Food available when and where we choose. Apps that make our cell phones personal assistants and inanimate products smart. Vaccines to protect us from disease, and medicines to cure disease. Cities thriving in places once inhabitable. They all require cooling!Read More »Cooling Matters: World Refrigeration Day announces 2022 theme
Kenya’s dairy sector is estimated at 14% of Kenya’s agricultural GDP. Milk is primarily produced by smallholder dairy farmers who account for 56% of total output. It is estimated that the sector has 1.8 million smallholder farmers (about 80% of producers). The remaining 44% of milk output comes from large commercial farmers.Read More »Kenya’s dairy sector is failing to meet domestic demand
South African blueberry growers are stepping up their promotional drive in Germany by highlighting the quality and sustainability credentials of their fruit. The country expects to ship some 3 000 tonnes to Germany this season, and while this only represents a small volume of the country’s exports to the EU, there are long-term ambitions to boost its share of the market.Read More »SA highlights blueberry sustainability
Rwanda’s Ministry of Environment through the Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) launches the Rwanda Cooling Initiative’s Green On-Wage (R-COOL GO) financing mechanism – through which the environmentally friendly refrigerators and air conditioners will be more widely accessible and affordable in Rwanda.Read More »Rwanda Cooling Initiative’s green on-wage launched
By Yershen Pillay, CEO, CHIETA (chemical industries SETA)
We are in an era where significant action must be taken through all phases of education to ensure that women are represented at every level of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and maths) careers. In commemorating the United Nation’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science on 11 February, we as CHIETA add our collective voice to the call to change the narrative and celebrate women and girls who are leading innovation and to remove barriers that hold women and girls back.Read More »Promoting women as agents of change in STEM sectors
A healthy, strong supply chain consists not only of its moving parts, but also in reliable, accessible, and connected warehousing solutions. A fundamental problem that the business world is facing is the growing lack of warehousing space.Read More »Tight spaces – The meteoric rise of warehousing
To be organised under the theme “Towards efficient, controlled and smart refrigeration”, the call for abstracts for the 26th IIR International Congress of Refrigeration has been launched.Read More »Call for abstracts now open for the IIR Congress 2023
The draft amendment to EU Regulation could seriously damage the future of South African and third country citrus imports to the region. The draft voted on by EU Member States’ Standing Committee on Plant, Animal, Food and Feed (SCOPAFF) representatives includes a mandatory requirement that all oranges from third countries in Africa and Israel be subjected to cold treatment for minimum 16 days at a temperature between 0 and -1 C.Read More »Calls for EU citrus amendment rejection
Under the circumstance and the global phenomenon of port congestion and the extremely unstable and volatile global shipping market, being able to provide multi-dimensional services for the international supply chain may become the main development direction of major shipping companies.Read More »Supply chain giants target air freight sector
This trial is directed to fruit and vegetable ‘prescriptions’ as part of UK government’s ‘levelling up’ strategy. In its levelling up white paper published on 1 February 2022, the UK government set out its pilot ‘Community Eat Well’ programme enabling GPs to “prescribe exercise and healthy food”, the report has indicated.Read More »UK launches trial for GPs to prescribe fresh produce