Global commodities trader Cargill Inc [CARG.UL] starting this spring will pay American farmers for capturing carbon in their field soils and cutting fertilizer runoff, an executive said.
The Abu Dhabi Investment Office announced on Thursday that it has invested $100 million in four agriculture technology companies which will establish research and development and production centres in the emirate.
Virgin Australia Holdings Ltd said on Thursday it would ground all domestic flights, except a single daily Sydney-Melbourne service through June 15, as it continues to seek government aid to weather the coronavirus crisis.
Copper demand in China is getting an unexpected lift from surging orders for ventilators in the global fight against the new coronavirus - the same factor that has subdued the traditional sources of copper demand this year.
In a clearing around his modest smallholding, farmer Arcadio Barajas stands before a sea of coffee plants, cloaked in the shadow cast by a wall of verdant forest that covers the San Lucas mountains of northern Colombia.
Virgin Australia Holdings Ltd said on Thursday it would ground all domestic flights, except a single daily Sydney-Melbourne service through June 15, as it continues to seek government aid to weather the coronavirus crisis.
Britons and Americans stuck in coronavirus lockdowns may not be drinking in bars and pubs but they are ordering more wine for delivery, online seller Naked Wines said on Thursday, predicting 2020 sales would now top existing forecasts.
Japan's Fast Retailing, owner of casual clothing chain Uniqlo, forecast a 44% plunge in annual operating profit that was steeper than what it had flagged earlier, hurt by the coronavirus outbreak in its key China market.
Fast Retailing, owner of casual clothing chain Uniqlo, slashed its annual outlook on Thursday, citing the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on China, a key growth market in recent years. Uniqlo shut around 170 stores in its home market this week.
The rapidly-spreading coronavirus outbreak is expected to push sub-Saharan Africa into recession in 2020 for the first time in 25 years, the World Bank said in a new forecast on Thursday.
The World Bank forecasts the sub-Saharan Africa region's economic growth for 2020 will contract because of the impact of the coronavirus outbreak, going into a recession for the first time in 25 years, it said on Thursday.
U.S. consumers, the primary market for Mexico's $3 billion avocado export business, will have uninterrupted access to the coveted crop as growers continue to work despite the coronavirus.
Starbucks Corp on Wednesday forecast a 47% drop in second-quarter earnings, scrapped its full-year forecast and warned that the financial hit from the coronavirus pandemic would extend into the final quarter of the fiscal year 2020.
Decade-low water levels in Argentina's Parana River, a key thoroughfare for grains shipments, are forcing exporters to load less merchandise on ships, adding a new problem to a sector already beset by bottlenecks due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Sudan on Wednesday raised the price of subsidised bread to 2 pounds per loaf from 1 pound in its capital Khartoum, while introducing a new smaller loaf for sale at the old price, in a bid to calm bakers complaining of steep losses.
Air Canada said on Wednesday it plans to adopt the government's wage subsidy for its 36,000 Canada-based workforce, in a bid to keep its employees on payroll as it wrestles with the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Brazilian corn exports slumped 51% by value in the first quarter, according to data compiled by farm lobby group CNA, reflecting strong demand for livestock feed in the domestic market and a sharp reduction in inventories.
U.S. airlines on Wednesday were still waiting for payroll aid they had hoped could arrive as soon as this week, as the number of passengers passing through U.S. airports dwindled even further.
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