Romanian Agribusiness Forum – May 11 2011, Bucharest, RO

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The Agribusiness Forum dedicated to Romanian Agribusiness Opportunities took place in Bucharest on May 11th 2011. It was a great pleasure to connect to some of the main agricultural players from Romania and worldwide. More info on http://www.agribusiness.thediplomat.ro/index.php. Looking forward to the next ag event. ...
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Agri career

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Agri Career Hot job - agribusiness consultant How did she started. In 1998 she decided to launch her own agricultural company i.e. Agriland 2000 srl alongside an UK business farmer. Since 2006, Dana Bucur started the agribusiness consultancy. Responsabilities. The next 10 year marketing strategy is focused on large CEE agribusiness market share, setting up the European Association of Agricultural Consultants and always providing creativity and dialogue with the ag stakeholders. Job challenges. Encouraging entrepreneurship and agribusiness initiatives, proper platform of autenthic agribusiness consultants, lack of pro attitude and menthality on a country basis, lack of young generations to involve in the development of the rural comunities. Job opportunities. National and international recognition. Brand awareness. Motivating people to believe and invest in agriculture. Reporter: Roxana Achim Media magazine: Cariere 2011, Romania e-Source: http://www.cariereonline.ro/articol/hot-job-dana-bucur-consultant-agribusiness...
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Dana Bucur – Agribusiness Romania and worldwide (March 8th 2011)

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DANA BUCUR 15 years in the middle of NATURE and amongst PEOPLE from the agricultural universe all over the world. Business performance achieved, expertise and agribusiness consultancy performed on 37,000 ha in Romania. 3,500 ha farmed truly and consistenly in UK. 2,500 ha more covered in Western Australia. At present, Romania and Central and Eastern Europe in the centre of attraction. ...
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The Global Food Crisis

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The end of the plenty By Joel K. Bourne Jr Photograph by John Stanmeyer It is the simplest, most natural of acts, akin to breathing and walking upright. We sit down at the dinner table, pick up a fork, and take a juicy bite, obliv­ious to the double helping of global ramifications on our plate. Our beef comes from Iowa, fed by Nebraska corn. Our grapes come from Chile, our bananas from Honduras, our olive oil from Sicily, our apple juice—not from Washington State but all the way from China. Modern society has relieved us of the burden of growing, harvesting, even preparing our daily bread, in exchange for the burden of simply paying for it. Only when prices rise do we take notice. And the consequences of our inattention are profound. Last year the skyrocketing cost of food was a wake-up call for the planet. Between 2005 and the summer of 2008, the...
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USDA AGRICULTURAL PROJECTIONS TO 2019

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Key Assumptions and Implications Major assumptions underlying the projections and selected implications include: Economic Growth • U.S. and world economic growth reflect a recovery from the global financial crisis and economic recession, with a transition back to steady economic gains. • Global economic growth is assumed to rebound to a 3.3-percent average growth rate for 2010-19. A resumption of high growth rates in emerging market countries, such as China and India, and a return to strong growth in other developing countries and countries of the former Soviet Union underpin this macroeconomic result. • The U.S. economy resumes growth at 2.5 percent in 2010 and 3.2 percent in 2011, followed by an average rate of 2.7 percent over the remainder of the projection period. With slower growth in the United States than in the world economy, the U.S. share of global gross domestic product (GDP) falls from about 27 percent currently to 25 percent at the end of the projection period. • The return to broad-based, steady global economic growth supports longer term gains in world...
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Harvard PhD Ray Goldberg – speech at IFAMA

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Dr. Ray Goldberg, Harvard father of IFAMA  (Food and Agribusiness Management Asociation)received prize at Boston IFAMA meeting with food firms. He also received the Doctor Honoris Causa from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Here a brief of his speech “We don’t have to tell this generation that food and health and hunger, etc., are high priority—they know it—as evidenced by “Food, Inc.” being nominated for an Academy Award. “Some 16 years ago at Harvard, I tried to put together a group of consumer activists, private sector, public sector and agriculture to look at the industry. At first they called each other names. Over time, they realized they share a common ground—all trying to improve the global food system for society’s needs. I have gained a sense of optimism for the next 20 years—there are more saints than villains. “The farmer has finally become global—and farmers elsewhere are no longer competitors but partners in the production of food for the global population. We are all...
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The World Bank in the hot seat

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Source: http://www.grain.org/articles/?id=64 Against the grain | 4 May 2010 The World Bank in the hot seat GRAIN A curious thing happened last week. A lot of people were under the impression that the World Bank was going to release its long-awaited study on global land grabs at its annual land conference in Washington DC on 26 April 2010. This is what GRAIN was told. It's what many journalists were told. And it's what those involved in producing the study expected. But it didn't happen. Instead, the Bank gave another powerpoint presentation summarising what the study will show, reiterated its proposed seven principles for "socially responsible" land grabs and unveiled its new business-to-business website – a kind of internet dating service to match up corporate land grabbers and government land givers. This is not the first time that this study has been delayed. Indeed, ...
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AGRI CAREER AND ABILITIES

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This article is written for those who really would like to follow a career in agriculture. Who is interested to build up his/her agricultural career in Romania or elsewhere in the world? In this industry we can find activities where people are involved physically and have to explore their visual or mechanical abilities. You are either focused on reaching real performances or you would like to use your experience and judgment to better understand the environment and how to interact with it. Usually people involved in farm activities are lonesome, ready to work in tough conditions and sometimes dangerous. So we discussed here about people who are physically-driven / motivated. Who do u recognize under this description? Either a farmer or a forestry man. People who are business-driven are running the business as if is theirs, even if it is so or not. The responsibility and rewards for this type of career include all the risks affiliated to the failure of not fulfilling...
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The Earth and Romania

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At present there are 6.6 billion people worldwide. 2 people are born and one dies each second. The total surface of the Earth is 561 million km2 out of which 29% is continental. The total arable area of the planet is 3 billion ha which is 20% from continental area. The agricultural surface of the planet may increase with only 8% which is around 250 million ha (J. Braun, Institute of Worldwide Economy, New York, 2008). It is said in the scientific world that by 2050 we will reach a total of 9.2 billion people with 2.5 billion more than at present. At least 50% out of all actual Earth population is starving. (more…)...
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