Emerging Markets

The Dutch lender has invited other financial institutions to contribute to the facility, which is likely to become operational next year.

The African Development Bank has committed to making all its operational tools available, including financing, to help the West African country’s economic growth through agri and infrastructure development.

The loan would help the Singaporean agribusiness expand its operations in Egypt, Georgia, Poland, Turkey and Ukraine.

Panelists at the Agri Investor Forum on Thursday highlighted ‘enormous’ opportunities and multiform challenges in emerging markets. Here’s how they ranked them.

An examination of global agriculture reveals both encouraging signs of near-term opportunity and large uncertainties about the future, according to panelists at the Agri Investor Forum in Chicago on Wednesday.

Instead of being ‘poverty traps,’ rural areas can drive economic growth in developing countries, the FAO says.

The emerging markets specialist hopes to benefit from increasing acceptance of private-label food among consumers in the region.

The bank will decide by November whether to commit to the private equity vehicle, which has the same target as its predecessor but a higher hard-cap.

New regulations expected to slow China outbound deals are in fact paving the way for more cross-border buyout funds targeting government-favored industries, such as agriculture and natural resources.

Nigeria's government says it is looking at similar arrangements with other institutions to help prop up the country's farmers.