La Energía y El Medio Ambiente

xFarm Technologies, the Swiss tech company specialising in the digitalisation of the whole agri-food sector, supporting more than 500,000 farms on a total area of 8.3 million hectares every day

El Niño conditions have developed in the tropical Pacific for the first time in seven years, setting the stage for a likely surge in global temperatures and disruptive weather and climate patterns.

Zweifel Pomy-Chips ha sido el fabricante de patatas chips líder en Suiza durante muchos años. Todos los días, toneladas de patatas de cultivo local se procesan en chips crujientes de alta calidad para retailers de toda Suiza.

Researchers at ETH Zurich and the Carnegie Institution for Science have shown how nitrogen fertilizer could be produced more sustainably. This is necessary not only to protect the climate, but also to reduce dependence on imported natural gas and to increase food security.

PepsiCo trabajará para construir una economía circular para los envases flexibles en Europa a través del diseño, la infraestructura y dando una nueva vida a los materiales de envasado, como parte de su ambición más amplia pep+ (PepsiCo Positive).

The abundance of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere once again reached a new record last year, with the annual rate of increase above the 2011-2020 average.

Los científicos están observando cambios en el clima de la Tierra en todas las regiones y en todo el sistema climático, según el último Informe del Panel Intergubernamental sobre Cambio Climático (IPCC), publicado hoy.

Bühler Group and Vyncke form a strategic partnership to offer integrated solutions with which biomass side stream products are transformed into clean process energy while reducing the customers’ carbon footprint.

TOMRA Food, a global provider of sensors, equipment, and digital solutions for the food supply chain, joined over 200 forward-thinking companies as the newest project member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). 

The world faces urgent challenges in the coming decades as climate change and a growing population make many of our current systems of production unsustainable.

Worldwide about a third of all food gets lost before it reaches our stomachs. For Swiss potatoes this is even more – half of the total harvest. Which measures can reduce the loss, and what effect do they have?

Energy efficiency is a top R&D priority for equipment manufacturer Bühler. Driven by recent successes in this field, Bühler has set its target to reduce the energy requirement in its core processes by another 20% by 2020.

Bill Gates, who is a major backer of food biotechnology, has spoken passionately how food biotechnology can help the people of Africa fight the numerous challenges they face.

On the way from field to fork, more than half of the potato harvest is lost. This is according to a new study conducted by researchers from Agroscope and ETH Zürich.