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Chicken and egg processors, a smallgoods manufacturer, and wine producer are some of the eight food and beverage companies to receive a share of $7 million in the latest round of the Government of Western Australia's Value Add Investment Grants program. Successful applicants included AAA EGG COMPANY PTY LTD, BIDYADANGA ABORIGINAL COMMUNITY LA GRANGE INC, D'Orsogna Ltd, Foodfolk Australia, Forest Hill Wines, Kojonup Feeds, MT BARKER CHICKEN, and Ord River District Co-operative (ORDCO).

Bartek Ingredients has grown to become a world leader in the production of malic and fumaric acid. Bartek’s new facility – currently under construction Stoney Creek – is expected to double the company’s production capacity. While Hamilton may be known for steel, the city’s agribusiness and food processing sector is quickly rising to equal prominence. Currently, there are more than 120 food and beverage manufacturers are operating in Hamilton. And with almost 700 farms operating in Hamilton, this sector leverages short supply chains that support the production of food and food ingredients that are shipped around the world. Learn more about the sector through this link https://lnkd.in/gc5_xnUA and connect with Tyson McMann (Tyson.McMann@Hamilton.ca), Hamilton’s Agri-Food and Food and Beverage Processing Lead. #HamOnt #EconDevWeek #FoodProcessing #BeverageManufacturing #AgriFood #Ontario #Canada

📊 A preliminary look on French 🍷 wine and 🐄 dairy #cooperatives. Among the #AGRICOMPET project activities, we investigated various dimensions of agrifood cooperatives such as their business model, management, governance, members payment criteria, and sustainability practices to identify the main communalities and differences. Early #results from the #France show that: The economic scenario of dairy and wine sector in France is very different. 🍷The #crisis has prompted the #wine sector to look for #strategic #partnerships with the experts. Different #scenarios have emerged, depending on the area of production and cooperative strategies, with thorough data collection and the involvement of key stakeholders facilitating in-depth analysis and discussion. 🐄 The #dairy sector is keen to explore an #international perspective, drawing on the insights of leading cooperatives and a comprehensive understanding of their #challenges and #prospects. Cooperatives research and performance assessment will continue to allow detailed evaluations of cooperatives. #PRIMA #reserarch #agriculturaleconomics #agrifood

We recently launched our research report ‘Growing the Local Food Sector: Barriers and Solutions’ which shares findings from conversations with growers, processors and sellers of local food. This research is part of our Local Food Plan which aims to re-design the local food sector and bring its multiple benefits to the masses! You can read my article summarising the report to find out more! #LocalFood #FutureOfFood 🌿🥦

Read all about it! Take a look at our most recent Chief Executive Blog, a really interesting read focusing on the important work of our local food projects. https://lnkd.in/eQJcUXub #Food #Community #VCFSE #Suffolk

Okanagan College is continuing to support the BC Beverage industry through research projects and our core research teams at BC BTAC. Through funding from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) we are hosting our first Beverage focused conference to showcase innovations and trends in the beverage industry. It will feature a current and brand new research project housed at OC and brings together innovators from across Canada to share their insights. If you are in beverage production, own/run a production facility, we hope to see you there.

I love a good three degrees of separation Te Waipounamu South Island story. Recently, a couple of Kiwis, professionals in the food resilience space and newly returned from overseas, stumbled upon an article I wrote for Stonesoup Magazine during the Covid era. They recommended I join the upcoming Wao hui on food resilience. Uncannily, we met just days ago in Wānaka Festival of Colour world where they've become part of our festival family, and they made the connection. Next week, via Wao, we'll kōrero about local food resilience—a conversation I've been engaged in for twenty years. To me, a solution is clear. It's always been here, quietly sustained by home and community gardeners, hunters and some tiny but mighty food businesses—a localised food system. However, there's a major obstacle: the dominance of mass-produced, globalised food systems. And we need more than just local food producers; we're surrounded by dairy farms, yet there's no direct community access to their products. Grain is grown throughout Central, but most of it goes to feed livestock rather than people. So the pressing question remains: how do we change the system to strengthen our local food resilience? Once, a storm here blocked roads and prevented bread trucks from getting through, leaving supermarket shelves empty for days. The pandemic further disrupted supply chains on a whole different scale. Our business, however, remained relatively unscathed due to its operational model and supply chain. The story below presents one idea on how we might at least strengthen systems, and fundamentally, it's about connection...

What’s the big deal about local sourcing? Join our PSC Week debate to find out https://lnkd.in/ekE3R_Bz How can catering teams support local farmers and growers to get more British food onto public sector plates? Equally, what can farmers and growers do to get their produce in front of foodservice buyers? As part of the Public Sector Catering Week, which takes place from May 20-24, there will be a live webinar to address these issues and more. #publicsectorcatering #publicsectorcateringweek #PSC #britishfood #localfarmers #localsourcing

"Food sits across government agencies and issues - it is everybody's responsibility, and so it is nobody's... Best practice globally is an interconnected total food systems approach, and most of our trading partners and global competitors have a comprehensive food strategy." - Angela, Eat NZ --- A great listen, and one that really made me sit up and think - how do we not have a total food systems strategy, with a long-term vision for success? The food system is so utterly critical for New Zealand, with far-reaching impacts across economic, social, and environmental sustainability: 💸 With the primary industries making up a majority of our exports, our global competitiveness and economic stability are reliant upon a sustainable food system. 👫 The far-reaching societal impacts of the food system are clear, from impacts upon public health, to growing food insecurity and inequality in access to nutritious food across the motu. 🌱 We know how interconnected our food system is with the environment. The food system relies upon a sustainable ecosystems and natural resources, but equally have significant impact upon these resources. Without a national food plan that brings together the multitude of parties involved and impacted by this system, are we essentially passengers on a high-speed train to who-knows-what future?

What’s the big deal about local sourcing? Join our Public Sector Catering Week debate to find out. During the free-to-attend #webinar on the 22 May we will be discussing how catering teams support local farmers and growers to get more British food onto public sector plates? Equally, what can farmers and growers do to get their produce in front of foodservice buyers? 💻 Register to join us on the 22 May - https://lnkd.in/eqxcahq9 #PSCWeek #publicfood #publicsectorcatering