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Last week’s Editor Letter highlighted some important features of Romania’s agriculture investment market but failed to demonstrate the country’s real potential, argues Carl Atkin, director at Terravost Limited.

Agriculture experts in both the private and government sectors must be incentivised to help train local Indian farmers to use new technologies, according to Vasanta Madhavi, deputy general manager at Origo Commodities India.

Paraguay's reputation as an investment destination has suffered in recent years but its openness to foreign investment and incentives on offer are making it increasingly appealing to investors, argues Lennart Stahr of Southern Connections Agro Consulting and Management.

Lawyers from Norton Rose Fulbright look at moves to adjust Dodd-Frank regulations on derivatives trading to make life easier for commercial companies.

As part of the International Day of Forests on Friday, Kate Evans from the Centre for International Forestry Research discusses the importance of forests in sustainable development in the tropics.

The longer-term impact of low oil prices on the agriculture sector remains the subject of much speculation, writes Andrew Wood, senior associate at law firm Norton Rose Fulbright.

The Shariyah Review Bureau has recently researched the agriculture fund market and its openness to sharia compliance. Here Saif Shawqi, assistant business developer at the Bureau, discusses the findings.

As institutions look to commit 20% of their portfolios to real assets, agri investing will gain popularity. But investment managers must be careful to ensure they have the right on-the-ground management, argues Detlef Schoen, head of farm investments at Aquila Capital.

All signs are pointing towards a consolidation of the food and agribusiness sector in India, according to Hemendra Mathur, managing director at a private equity firm focusing on investment into SMEs.