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Lending’s Silver Lining

Not immune to financial crises, agriculture moves on to unconventional growth avenues.

Greenlight, Africa

Innovative partnerships set the tone for funding Africa’s crop input future.
 

Features

Investing in the Private Sector the Way Forward for African Agriculture

The high prices of agricultural commodities like wheat and corn signal a new international food crisis, one that reminds us of the terrible reality of food insecurity that millions of African households confront daily.

Africa Report: South Africa

Field crops continue to boost South Africa’s agriculture industry, which has grown an average of 11.8% annually since 1970.

Africa Report: North Africa

North Africa’s population is booming. It is also an arid zone and prone to drought. Morocco bore the brunt of a rain deficit in the past year, and poor harvests are widely predicted as a result.
 

Africa Report: West Africa

Africa is the next great agriculture frontier. No one knows when the boom will hit, but everyone knows it is coming. The pace of international development has accelerated in the past 10 years beyond anyone’s expectations.

Post Patent Report: Choosing the Right AIs

Never underestimate the importance of supply chain management.

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China Prioritizes Formulations

Technical grade products are just the beginning of China’s importance on the global stage. For the first time in 2011, Chinese producers exported more formulated products – 750,000 tons – than its technical grade products – 670,000 tons – according to Dr. Ye Guibiao, director of ICAMA, the Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals for the Ministry of Agriculture.