Pure vanilla extract market size has been expanding at a healthy pace over the recent past, promising six per cent CAGR for between 2019 and 2029, with Madagascar being the leading producer of vanilla beans, fulfilling 80 per cent of the world’s demand for vanilla beans, according to Persistence Market Research

Over three million people in Tanzania and Kenya will benefit from a US$384.22mn financing package for road construction support, approved by the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) board in Abidjan

In a series of TED Talks, six DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences’ scientists share aspirational research to solve some of the world’s most pressing sustainability challenges, relating to enzymes for more sustainable consumption, alternatives to antibiotics in livestock production and tackling the worldwide obesity pandemic by harnessing the human gut microbiota

The director-general of the OPEC Fund for International Development (the OPEC Fund) Dr Abdulhamid Alkhalifa has signed a US$20mn development loan to help finance Burkina Faso’s Agricultural Value Chain Support Project (PAPFA)

Eni and Societè National de Distribution des Petroles AGIL SpA (SNDP) have signed an MoU to cultivate castor at a semi-industrial level to produce sustainable biofuels, which is being trialled by Eni in the Gafsa area