In the first quarter of 2011 almost 40,000 metric tonnes of UTZ CERTIFIED Good Inside coffee was sold, an increase of 25 per cent compared to the same period last year.

EVONIK INDUSTRIES (GERMANY) announces a capacity increase of
TrypAMINO (L-Tryptophan) at Evonik Fermas s.r.o., a 100 per cent affiliated
company of Evonik AG, in Slovenska Lupca, Slovakia.

AT A TIME when failing harvests are once again threatening the lives and livelihoods of millions across Africa, 300 agriculture scientists, entrepreneurs, farmers’ organisations and governments from across the continent have gathered to accelerate a massive effort to develop and deploy higher-yield, disease and drought resistant crop varieties of Africa’s most important food crops.

MARKETING OF PRODUCE to other countries is critical for virtually every country in Africa. In the current economic crisis affecting most of the countries of the World, African countries are in an even tighter position than usual. Some commentators claim that the 2008 peak price for oil of US$147 per barrel was caused by speculators and led to the current recession.