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QU Dongyu, director general - Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. Iamge credit: Food and Agricultural Organisation

FAO ready to follow up on UN Food Systems Summit

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The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has entered a new era with a new structure and new dynamics. The 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are approaching, we have to change our agri-food systems urgently and holistically. This transformation requires a systemic approach and our collective action – hand in hand with producers, distributors, and consumers, together with governments, private sector, academia, and civil society.Read More »FAO ready to follow up on UN Food Systems Summit

The entire food production chain could use isochoric freezing—everyone from growers to food processors, product producers to wholesalers, to retailers. Image credit: Agricultural Research Service

New food freezing concept

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Improves quality, increases safety, and cuts energy use. Shifting to a new food freezing method could make for safer and better-quality frozen foods while saving energy and reducing carbon emissions, according to a new study by US Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and University of California-Berkeley scientists.Read More »New food freezing concept

The suitability of each technology is communicated through a simple traffic light scoring system. Image credit: PIRO4D from Pixabay 

WHO releases new compendium of innovative health technologies

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The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for innovative health technologies that can help countries improve health outcomes by providing shortcuts to solutions despite lack of infrastructure and resources. However, many of the new technologies that have come to market are unaffordable or unsuitable for low- and middle-income countries.Read More »WHO releases new compendium of innovative health technologies

The conference will include robust discussions on the pace of local drone innovations as compared to the rest of the world. Image credit: Bussynet Advanced Trading

Drone and Unmanned Aviation Conference 2021

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With the way drone technology has developed over the past year, there is never enough time to discuss all the topics around developments in the drone industry. So to keep in touch with all the goings on, there will be an end of year edition of the Drone and Unmanned Aviation Conference which is scheduled for 25 and 26 November 2021, to be held at Emperors Palace Convention Centre in Johannesburg.Read More »Drone and Unmanned Aviation Conference 2021

The partnership opens a link to fleets to obtain, amongst others, seamless interactions with shippers and warehouses. Image credit: Creative Commons | Zach Vessels

Tracker partners with Locus for holistic supply chain management

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In a move to bolster its fleet offering, Tracker has partnered with Locus, a future-ready platform that automates supply chain decisions, to power its planning, optimisation and execution management. The partnership leverages Tracker’s telematics expertise and footprint combined with specialist software capability from Locus to provide a holistic supply chain management solution.Read More »Tracker partners with Locus for holistic supply chain management

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K-CEP changes name to Clean Cooling Collaborative; International energy efficiency expert appointed director

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ClimateWorks Foundation, a leading global platform for climate philanthropy, announced at the end of August this year that the Kigali Cooling Efficiency Programme (K-CEP) has changed its name to the Clean Cooling Collaborative. The new name better reflects the programme’s growing role in building a global coalition working across policy, finance, and industry to decarbonise the cooling sector by increasing the use of energy-efficient and climate-friendly refrigeration and air conditioning.Read More »K-CEP changes name to Clean Cooling Collaborative; International energy efficiency expert appointed director