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Press Releases
Ag Innovation Showcase Celebrates Another Record Success
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St. Louis, June 2011 – With more than 270 attendees from Brazil, Australia, the Netherlands,
India, Malaysia, and across North America, the third annual Ag Innovation showcase, May 23
and 24, at the Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, MO, continued to build on the
success of the first two Showcase events.
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Financial Innovations and Reforms Are Strengthening Emerging Economies, Expanding the Market For Agricultural Productivity Investment
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St. Louis, MO, May 23, 2011 –Financial innovation and reforms are key to strengthening the economies of emerging markets and providing the
risk management tools for farmers and food processors to adopt innovative sustainable agricultural practices.
Joyce Cacho, Ph.D., Chief Sustainability Officer at Novus International, Inc., shared this encouraging news
during a presentation at the 2011 Ag Innovation Showcase today. She also said that to improve agricultural
practices sustainably, collaboration frameworks of major stakeholder groups –in particular scientists, farmers,
processors, commodity exchanges, the finance industry and policy makers –are critically needed.
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World Food Supplies Threatened by Climate Change, Rising Wages and Population Growth, Experts Forecast at Global Ag Innovation Showcase
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St. Louis, MO, May 23, 2011 – A volatile recipe of exploding population growth, climate change,
falling crop yields and more demand for meat and diary will put world agriculture under
tremendous pressure, experts said at the third annual global Ag Innovation Showcase, held at
the Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, MO.
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Ag Innovation Showcase Selects 16 Entrepreneurs in Global Business Plan Competition
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Dutch, Malaysian, Australian and American companies will present
new technologies to worldwide gathering at Danforth Plant Science Center
St. Louis, MO, May 13, 2011 – Sixteen companies have been selected in a rigorous international
competition to present at the third annual Ag Innovation Showcase (www.agshowcase.com), May 23-24, 2011,
in St. Louis, MO. These companies represent the most promising and brightest innovations in renewable
energy, ag biotech and genomics, and sensors and analytics.
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Keynote Speakers Highlight Global Leadership Role Of Third Annual Ag Innovation
Showcase
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Gregory Lucier, CEO of genomic innovator Life Technologies Jason Pyle, CEO of algae-based
fuel pioneer Sapphire Energy
St. Louis, MO, April 1, 2011 – The CEO of the global biotechnology company
whose products will facilitate genomic innovations in agriculture and the CEO of
one of the world’s leading innovators in creating algae-based fuel will be keynote
speakers at the third annual Ag Innovation Showcase, May 23-24, at the Donald Danforth
Plant Science Center in St. Louis, the largest independent plant science research
institute in the world.
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Global Ag Economic Forum Opens Third Annual Ag Innovation Showcase
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New Insights into international agriculture powerhouses Brazil and China, plus innovations
in ag finance
February 2011, St. Louis, MO – Alternative future scenarios for international
agricultural supply and demand, and country-specific insights will be examined during
the Global Ag Economic Forum, the kick-off session for the third annual Ag Innovation
Showcase, May 23-24, at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, the
largest independent plant science research institute in the world.
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