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African women suffer most: World Bank

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
... World Bank vice president cited research findings on household income declines in Uganda and a fall in income from agriculture in Madagascar where girls were first to be pulled out of schools. The World Bank has warned that an additional 700,000 African ...

Carthona to advise on $500m insto money

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
Call Carthona Agriculture the Australian company that could. Since the start of the year, institutional investors have signed up to ask for Carthona's consultancy advice on a total $500 million worth of investments. Charlie Blomfield, managing director ...

Rwanda calls for $770m fund injection

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
... small landlocked country in east-central Africa, is home to over 10 million people who mostly engage in subsistence agriculture. The country's major export markets include China, Germany and the US.

Carthona endorses UN PRI

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
Carthona Agriculture, a green investment consultancy for institutional investors, is incorporating the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment into its services. Charlie Blomfield, managing director of Carthona, said applying these principles ...

Responsible investments still in vogue

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
... into products which focus on the themes of climate change, carbon liability, water, waste, clean energy, sustainable agriculture and sustainable property. Louise O'Halloran, executive director of RIAA, said it had been a difficult year for the investment ...

Macq to open next Gateway

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2008
... self managed super funds (SMSF) exposure to emerging markets infrastructure, the Asian financial sector, energy and agriculture. Using research from Macquarie Research Equities house, Macquarie Gateway Trust provides investment in agricultural commodities ...

CAAM eyes retail

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
... insto investors are now tagging CAAM for additional international offerings such as global inflation linked bonds, agriculture and global volatility products. "We're not going to launch any new [funds] this year... the focus is to work with what we've ...

Iron Ore price jumps 85 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2008
... per cent to 37 million tonnes and drive crop export earnings up 66 per cent. Despite the upbeat export numbers from agriculture, the real revenues are from minerals and energy exports as their values are forecast to grow six times more than those from ...

Infrastructure Australia should set national priorities

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2008
... transport, water and communications. It should also target areas "where Australia has a competitive advantage-such as agriculture, mining and education". Supporting the energy initiatives, the report noted within its set of taxation recommendations that ...

Climate change good for agriculture

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2008
... challenges, delegates at a recent climate change summit convened by the Farm Institute carried the view that Australian agriculture continued to have an incredibly optimistic future, again pointing to the investment opportunities the sector offers.