Food / Agribusiness

With shared rivers hit by mismanagement, drought and climate change, irrigation and hydroelectricity face new challenges

Last year’s record harvest drives exports up and encourages search for new markets

The government is encouraging local manufacture of machinery from tractors to hi-tech oil drills

Human capital will become as key to low-to-mid-income countries as it is for high-income ones

Counter-tariffs are beginning to hit US agriculture sector earnings, with midterm elections in November

Probes against commodities trader Glencore reflect progress on international anti-corruption efforts

Chinese and US tariffs on over 500 of each other’s products take effect today, raising costs and risking escalation

Monsanto faces a patent dispute and loss of royalties as other firms are implicated in tender-rigging allegations