Potash, the mineral resource and indispensable crop fertilizer,is Byelorussia's trump card in the global food chain. Overlooking the tragic fate ot migrants at the Polish and Lithuanian borders, a hard game is being played behind closed doors
Supplied by large mining firms to a small number of global food producers, potash today is competitively priced - prodding smaller specialty chemical firms to diversify from the commodity market with sustainable agri-solutions
Leader in soybean exports, the premier agricultural commodity, and well ahead of the U.S., Brazil agribusiness aims at making the most of the country's natural advantage by maitaining the land and water resources - a contradiction in terms ?
Years in the making, Brazil's dominant position in the soybean trade has been achieved by a powerful agroindustry, driven by unsatiable demand from China but the environmental cost may be unbearable in the medium term
Confronted with unsatiable demand for milk, New Zealand's fragile ecosystem is front-running environmental risks exposing much larger economies worldwide, glad to supply in the short term, but at what cost ?
Ratcheting up milk supply, New Zealand is now coping with the environmental fallout. Too much of a good thing or, more probably, a warning shot the major global agriculture exporters would discount at their peril
