Faced with a rapidly expanding population, Bahrain is seeking investors to help strengthen its food production capabilities at home, while also acquiring land overseas for cultivation.
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Economic update | Downstream projects bode well for Papua New Guinea’s fisheries industry
27 Oct 2013
A wave of new fish processing facilities is galvanising downstream activity across Papua New Guinea (PNG), paving the way for the $408m fisheries sector to transform itself into a billion-dollar industry.
Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Sunny Verghese, Group Managing Director and CEO, Olam International from The Report: Gabon 2013
What are the biggest challenges to vertical integration in Africa’s agricultural sector?
Articles & Analysis | Sustainable timber: As international competition heats up, plans are under way to raise the contribution of forestry from The Report: Gabon 2013
Since 1998, Gabon has been at the forefront of global forest conservation efforts as it works to balance the priorities of ensuring the sustainability of its resource base and maximising the forestry sector’s economic contribution. One of the key pillars of the Industrial Gabon policy is to carry out more value-added processing at home – first-stage...
Articles & Analysis | Seeds of growth: Developing subsistence farming and cash crops should boost non-oil expansion and improve food security from The Report: Gabon 2013
Dependent on international markets for agricultural imports worth CFA250bn (€375m) in 2012, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Rural Development (Ministre de l’Agriculture, de l’ Elevage, de la Pêche et du Développement Rural, MAEPDR), Gabon aims to significantly increase its domestic food security by 2020, while also...
Articles & Analysis | Cash crops: Plantations are attracting significant levels of investment from The Report: Gabon 2013
Intensive cultivation of cash crops plays a central role in Gabon’s ambitions to meet its domestic consumption needs, expand non-mineral exports and generate employment by 2020. The government is eager to attract further investment in palm oil, rubber, coffee and cocoa, as well as new crops like sugar cane, maize and soya. Despite low international...