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IFC - UKRAINE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, is lending US$30 million to leading Ukraine poultry producer CJSC Myronivsky Khliboprodukt. The loan will support expansion and modernisation, involving improved efficiency, production capacity, and strengthened distribution. The company will expand its breeding and broiler farms, hatcheries, processing plants and set up a new feedmill.…
SUSTAINABLE COCOA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL development consortium is to promote sustainable cocoa production systems in west Africa, to make supplies more predictable for processors and profitable for producers, easing the sector’s recent price squeeze. The partnership includes the United Nations Development Programme, Conservation International and the World Cocoa Foundation, which have been working with Mars, Hershey, Nestlé and the Alliance of Cocoa Producing Countries, among others.…
OIE CARCASS DISPOSAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REGIONAL far east and Pacific meeting of the Office International des Épizooties, (the world animal health organisation), has focused on calls to avoid the mass slaughter of livestock to control animal disease outbreaks. Delegates called for work on creating effective alternatives to culls that would ease environmental problems caused by carcass disposal.…
POPULAR POPLARS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
POLITICAL leaders in Brussels have been pressed to promote the planting of poplar and willow trees across the European Union (EU) to promote rural development, soil stability and biological de-contamination of ground pollutants. The call has come from the United Nations’ (UN) Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), which runs a statutory body called the International Poplar Commission.…
EU NAME AND SHAME
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MOVES are afoot in Brussels to pass a law requiring all companies handling food to be inspected annually, then publicly ‘named and shamed’ should they be found breaking health and hygiene rules. The idea has been tabled by the European Parliament’s environment committee as an amendment to an umbrella food safety regulation proposed earlier this year covering food quality, animal feed, safety, labelling and inspections, providing for criminal penalties for serious breaches of its rules.…
DELTA AIR LINES
BY PHILIP FINE
DELTA Air Lines might snuff out plans to privatise Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Privatisation advocates want airport revenue to help pay for US$3.2 billion (GBPounds 1.83 billion) in local water and sewer upgrades. But Delta has a veto to stop the project and announced it will exercise that right, saying anything earned at Hartsfield-Jackson must be invested back into the airport.…
JACKSONVILLE AIRPORT
BY PHILIP FINE
A US airport is working on an agreement with a German company to jointly run a baggage-handling operation that they can market to local airlines. Jacksonville International Airport and Fraport AG – the Frankfurt-based company that owns and operates that city’s airport – would save airlines the expense of hiring workers and buying equipment needed to move bags to and from aircraft.…
SPAIN WATER
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has delayed a decision over whether it should fund a controversial Spain water transfer scheme, with environment commissioner Margot Wallström saying she needed more proof that transferring water from the Júcar river follows European Union (EU) environmental laws.…
6FP ENERGY REVIEWS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CALL has been made to energy researchers across the European Union (EU) to submit informal proposals for grants from the EU Sixth Framework Programme on research, as part of a de facto review of the Euro 16.2 billion scheme.…
GERMANY - SWITZERLAND
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has rebuffed a request from Switzerland for it to declare that night flight restrictions imposed by Germany on planes flying across its territory towards Zurich airport break a European Union-Swiss aviation agreement. Instead, the Commission has ruled the noise-related rules are legal.…