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Food innovation centres (FICs) have become a feature of the global food production landscape over the past few decades and now play a significant role in the research and development of edible products.

The first purpose built FICs started to appear in the final quarter of the 20th century, with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the US’s Midwest Corn Belt, an early mover in this field, opening its Food Processing Center in 1983 (1).…

Anti-fraud is all about catching and preventing swindles, but victims are increasingly banding together to launch class action lawsuits to secure compensation for past misdeeds.

The 2024 edition of the Duane Morris Class Action Review, from Philadelphia, USA-based law firm Duane Morris declares that 2023 was the second most prolific year for class action lawsuits in the world’s class action centre, America, (next to 2022), and anti-fraud class actions were particularly valuable for plaintiffs last year.…

The only university of the self-declared Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, or Western Sahara, continues to teach and graduate students, despite the military stalemate that has persisted before and since its founding in 2012, which has left Morocco controlling 80% of the territory.…

Attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea by the Houthi Islamic militant group from Yemen are creating significant concerns for the European chemical industry, including makers of dyes and textile finishing chemicals in Germany.

Over the past two months, trade volumes through the Suez Canal have dropped by 42%, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).…

Occupational fraud is costing private and public organisations worldwide 5% of their annual revenue, with losses topping USD1 million in 22% of cases and averaging USD1.7 million, according to the latest global survey from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE).…

The CEO of an expanding Ethiopian sportswear company has told WTiN how it has combined tech investments with a creative commercial strategy to become a pan-African company that provides quality and affordable sportswear to African consumers.

Samuel Mekonnen, also the co-founder of Gofere, which was launched in 2016, has succeeded in tapping a growing regional market that used to be dominated by cheap, sub-standard products bought mainly from China.…

Uganda has thousands of refugee students in its public and private universities, plus other higher education institutions, with numbers increasing to 15,000 today, says the country’s ministry of education and sports. Over time those students have had impacts on the institutions where they study, the surrounding environment and the country at large.…

Staff and students at Derna University, in eastern Libya, have rallied to repair an institution devastated by floods that tore through its home city and port Derna last September 11. The torrents, for example, seriously damaged the university faculty of education building, while killing 12 faculty professors and 28 members of university staff, with 286 students officially declared dead.…

US tobacco growers are facing tough times as labour costs rise, and American cigarette consumption continues to shrink.

In 2023, tobacco production in the US amounted to 432.45 million lb (pounds) (196.1kg), a 3.3% decline from the 447.4 lb (202.9 kg) produced the previous year and continuing a long-term downward trend, Fiona Dyer, lead analyst for tobacco at UK-based data analytics and consulting company GlobalData, told TJI.…

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the USA’s FIU, has made progress on some key long-awaited reforms, including building its beneficial ownership reporting regime, and cracking down on crypto-currency mixers, even though some major AML/CFT holes persist – such as lawyer CDD/SAR filing.…