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Why Pongamia will triumph
Fair warning, this blog post is going to sound like a business school strategy class (thanks Wharton!). In 1990, Michael Porter released a landmark study called “Why Nations Triumph,” in which he...
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Africa, the rise, the fall, the rise, the fall…
The African continent is blessed with some of the world’s greatest natural resources, huge mineral wealth and fertile land however; it would have to be the understatement of the year to say that doing...
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Shining a light on Guar
I read an amazing stat this weekend: Farmers in the Indian state of Rajasthan are growing 11 million acres (4.5M HA) of guar this year! That’s a pretty staggering figure considering that Texas grows...
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Peeling Back the Indian Onion Crisis
If you’ve ever eaten Indian food, you know that onions are an essential part of most dishes, which is why the skyrocketing price of onions in India—an increase of more than 300% in the past 12...
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[Don’t] Blame it on the Rain
Everyone is talking about how it hasn’t rained this year in California. And it hasn’t. In fact, over the past decade, California has seen three super-dry years (2003, 2007, 2013) and some say that...
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Is precision agriculture the new low hanging fruit?
In the world of agriculture, ‘precision ag’ is hot. Precision agriculture is a farm and site specific management system to optimize inputs and outputs. Essentially, farmers use GPS, sensors and big...
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Cool (coffee) beans
My wife and I spent some time in Colombia recently and the highlight of the trip (there were many) was visiting a coffee plantation in Salento, a town 300km east of Bogota. I grew up seeing the Juan...
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Too legit to quit
The process of commercializing a new permanent crop such as a tree takes time to ‘prove’ economic viability. It is therefore no surprise that investors have shied away from the space. In fact much of...
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Grazing the Steaks
The imagery of cattle on 747, flying 2500 miles across the Pacific ocean took me by surprise –and wasn’t an idea I ever thought I would have to entertain until I began exploring the market potential...
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Climate Changes Role in the Syrian Uprising
Happy 2016! This is a recent post that Adam put up on ecosciencewire.com By: Adam Hanbury-Brown Three years before Syria’s uprising in 2011, the country experienced the worst drought in recorded...
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