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Tanzania is now Africa’s second-largest raw tobacco producer after Zimbabwe, according to the country’s agriculture minister Hussein Bashe and plans are underway to increase production and leaf processing capacity by encouraging more small-scale farmers to engage in contractual tobacco commercial farming.…

Academics attending an International Association of Universities (IAU) webinar on ‘Rethinking education for a more sustainable world’ have called for more activism in higher education design and operations to orientate its research and learning towards a healthier planet.

Environmental specialist Professor Stephen Sterling, of the UK’s University of Plymouth, criticised the contribution made by HE in promoting sustainability, saying it was too little and too late, arguing that its continued focus on promoting growth caused problems.…

Universities in Somalia are facing heightened alerts as the country’s security situation continues to deteriorate. While Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab has been pushed away from controlling large swathes of Somalia, especially in the country’s south, over the past 12 years, it has recently increased terror attacks.…

The fashion worldwide industry needs to open itself to ideas from a variety of sources to strengthen its position, for instance through automated production efficiency, innovation in sustainability and widening sourcing worldwide, three young entrepreneurs have claimed. Speaking at the Sewn Products Equipment & Suppliers of the Americas (SPESA) conference in Montréal, Canada, this week Michael Mayr, co-founder and COO of Silana, a Vienna, Austria-based manufacturer claiming to have fully automated sewing of soft materials, a tough challenge for robotics, the “last major processing step in fashion production that has not been automated yet,” claims the company.…

European Union (EU) member states are failing to implement mandatory sustainability reporting rules imposed by the EU’s corporate sustainability reporting directive (CSRD), the European Commission has concluded. It has opened infringement procedures against 17 of the 27 EU countries saying they have failed to properly write the directive into their national legislation: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia and Spain.…

Companies and researchers are increasingly offering innovative coatings to help businesses and governments fight climate change, providing insulation, heat reflection and other energy-saving functionalities. These products also aid compliance with burgeoning legislation targeting net zero emissions by 2050 and meet intensifying consumer concern about the impact of climate change.…

The UK government is poised to launch talks with the European Union (EU) on forging a sanitary and phytosanitary agreement (SPS) that could remove British and EU food health checks that impede the trade in dairy products.

Dairy UK chief executive Dr Judith Bryans told DII: “A new sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) agreement with the EU has the potential to help in reducing trade administration costs for UK dairy exporters.…

Indonesia’s food and beverage industry is pushing for a delay implementing a new nutritional labelling system, warning that the regulations could have significant economic repercussions if rushed.

The government’s Regulation No. 28/2024 on health includes measures aimed at controlling sugar, salt, and fat content in processed foods as part of efforts to reduce non-communicable diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and stroke (1).…

Belgium is a beer heavyweight in global markets, and hence a major source of canning demand, with 417 brewers according to the country’s industry association Belgian Brewers, providing nearly 7,000 jobs (1). It is the fifth biggest producer in Europe, producing 2.047 billion litres of beer in 2023, according to the latest European Union (EU) statistical agency Eurostat figures (2).…

India’s Birla Cellulose, a global leader in supplying viscose staple fibre (VSF), is soon to launch an upgraded version of its popular traceability tracking platform, GreenTrack, the company has told Textile 4.0. GreenTrack 2.0 will, among other features, help partner textile brands measure the quantity of fibre used at each stage of their value chain.…