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Luke’s Executive Vice President Johanna Buchert visited FoodAfrica partners...

Luke’s recently appointed Executive Vice President, Dr. Johanna Buchert visited Kenya in early November 2015 in order to acquaint herself with the FoodAfrica Programme and the related Safe Food-Safe...

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Xavier Irz: Should sugar be taxed in Finland?

The Finnish government has recently decided that the “candy tax” currently applied to sugar-rich confectionaries, ice-cream and soft drinks would be eliminated on January 1, 2017. The decision, driven...

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Maurizio Sajeva: Strategic research agendas, proposals and partnering...

International research institutions, including funders, are nowadays very active in defining of strategies that would pave the way towards a more sustainable future and human development. These are,...

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Martti Esala: How to popularize science – case International Year of Soils 2015

Year 2015 was nominated by the United Nations as International Year of Soils. For the science community such a nomination can be seen as recognition the value of soils, their science and people working...

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Jarkko Niemi: International trade concerns challenge Finnish livestock...

Issues related to international trade are currently very important to the Finnish livestock sector. Especially the pig sector has faced economic downturn during the past few years as the profitability...

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District heating prices go wild in Finland

Building regulations in Finland promote local monopolies of district heating plants, which yield profits for few, while the consumers pay the price for the reductions of greenhouse gas emissions. Wild...

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Biorefineries turn grass into new feed products

Silage made from grass mainly contains fibre but also plenty of protein and sugars. Natural Resources Institute Finland and VTT are developing and testing methods that will be used for producing feed...

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The number of agriculture and horticulture enterprises continues to decline...

In 2015, there was a total of 50,999 agriculture and horticulture enterprises in Finland. The number of farms declined by three per cent compared to the year before. Since 2010, about 8,500 farms have...

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Cereal crops sufficient to enable exporting

In 2015, the cereal crops were the smallest in three years. Despite this, 500 million kilos of grains can be exported, since the harvest totalled 3.7 billion kilos and annual consumption is 3.2...

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The producer price of milk declined, the producer price of cereals remained...

In 2015, the producer prices of milk and meat declined year-on-year, whereas the producer prices of cereals stopped falling and the producer prices of eggs and potato rose. This information is taken...

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