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Obviously feeling braver than the UK Met Office, the US government’s Climate Prediction Center (CPC) last week gave a long-term forecast that the deadly El Nino weather anomaly should dissipate by early summer in the northern
Full story...Show there certainly was - though not a lot of substance – in the line up of electric cars at last week’s Geneva Motor Show. Renault and Nissan were claiming that they would be the only ones on the market with volume production
Full story...Another company joins the modest number of palm oil producers on the London market as Equatorial Palm Oil takes a bow on AIM after raising a gross £6.5 million. A bit of research indicates that this is the first since New Britain
Full story...The United Nations estimates that by 2025 two thirds of the world’s population, or five and a half billion people, will be living in countries with inadequate water resources. But water scarcity, which is already a problem in
Full story...In a move likely to have far reaching effects India, a major player in international food import and export markets, is making a push to increase the size of its food bowl after a poor monsoon season cut harvests. Failure of much
Full story...There was a major boost for alternatives last week as India announced a number of measures to encourage investment in the alternative energy space. These ranged from a tax on coal, to the creation of a new clean energy technology
Full story...Going global is great in terms of ideas, but not so much when it comes to checking them out. Take the new farming opportunities opened up by food shortfalls forecast as the world’s population surges – it is expected to rise from
Full story...More corporate action in the booming fertiliser sector! This time it was a US$4.1 billion all-cash bid from Yara International, the world’s largest listed fertiliser specialist, for Terra Industries, its US competitor. The price
Full story...It was a long time coming, but G4G Resources has finally signed off on its deal to acquire three properties in geothermal areas in Argentina, covering, in total, 45,390 hectares of ground. The company’s plan is to build modular
Full story...When I returned to Australia after a prolonged trip to Europe I ran into an extremely well-known Labor elder statesman. Diplomacy dictates I don't mention his name. After an exchange of pleasantries he said to me, unprompted:
Full story...Taking a look at the world’s food markets the Indian analysts IGD pointed last week to phenomenal speed at which India and China’s appetites for groceries are growing. China will become world leader in the grocery market by 2014,
Full story...With China now officially the world’s fastest-growing wind energy market, accounting for a third of all new capacity, the queue of IPOs of company’s hoping to cash in on this market is lengthening. Just days after Huaneng Group
Full story...Their products may be on most governments’ hit lists, but the London quoted tobacco companies, among the largest groups keeping farmers busy, are on most brokers’ “buy” lists. No wonder - despite the best efforts of the
Full story...As reflected in the recent rally in the company’s share price, now edging towards 90p, IGas Energy plc, the UK coal-bed methane (CBM) developer, is starting 2010 in good shape. For starters, the Aim-traded firm, which is
Full story...Even as commodity markets turned bearish, following other markets into a state of jitters about Europe’s economies, the second-largest of the largest US public pension funds announced it was considering investing in them. The
Full story...President Barack Obama lived up to his promises this week, annoucing a series of major steps to boost US biofuels production. At a meeting with a bipartisan group of governors from around the US, he laid out three measures which
Full story...Porkers are in – Cranswick has just come out with third-quarter trading statement to prove it. The market thought it was a tasty morsel, too, and the pork meat supplier’s share price soared 45p to 800p, a new 12-month high. The
Full story...“We no longer have a putative project, we have a business.” So says Chris Lambert, chairman of Altona Energy, the London Aim-traded, Australia-based company with plans to develop a massive coal-to-liquids scheme in South
Full story...As President Obama struggles to get a climate bill through the US Senate, flamboyant billionaire Ted Turner has announced that he is putting his money into solar power. He has joined forces with Southern, an Atlanta-based power
Full story...Russia’s anti-trust buster, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), has established a record of making much ado about little; and of regulating only those corners of the Russian market where no oligarch-sized interest is
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