As project sponsors, borrowers, lenders and investors gathered at the Africa Investment Forum to make deals on investment opportunities, leaders of the continent’s top agribusiness companies shared their thoughts on the future of the industry
Agriculture
FruitSpec completes successful field studies
FruitSpec, a portfolio company of The Trendlines Group, has completed successful field studies with its solution for fruit yields estimates and projections
Global fruit distributor goes digital to streamline processes
M-Files, intelligent information management company, has announced that Jupiter Group will be leveraging the M-Files Intelligent Information Management Solution to eliminate paper, streamline processes and improve collaboration across its global locations
‘Thermaculture process more effective than pesticides per acre’
After a two-year study, Caltech Ag Scientists has revealed that Agrothermal Systems® heat-treatments can be equal or more effective than pesticides and are used at lower costs per acre
US launches aflatoxin and chronic malnutrition study in Mozambique
The government of the US, through its Agency for International Development, has launched a study to assess the relationship between aflatoxin exposure and chronic malnutrition in children, in a new effort to end chronic malnutrition in Mozambican children