agro-ecological – Primal Group

What to Expect from a Trump White House

Welcome to a new era in history. Donald Trump is officially the 45^th President of the United States of America and yet the question remains – what kind of President will he become?

Since President Donald Trump’s election win, the S&P 500, the Dow Jones Industrial Index and the Nasdaq Composite have all reached record highs. Business confidence and economic growth prospects in the United States have soared on commitments to cut corporate taxes, deregulate industry, increase domestic spending and ramp up infrastructure investment. The rest of the world are also enjoying this bull market as Britain’s FTSE 100, Germany’s DAX and the French CAC 40 are all rising on investors’ expectation that the ‘Trump-trade’ will boost global economic growth.…

A Pivotal Year for Sustainable Food

For the human race to survive and thrive, we must feed ourselves in a safe and sustainable manner. This will be a considerable challenge, especially with the global population expected to reach 10 billion by 2050. Such rising demand will require a 70% increase in food productivity and a doubling in protein production worldwide, at a time when arable land degradation is increasing and crop yields are starting to show a decline. Despite the increasingly bleak scenario we face, there is a solution: the alignment of the human race and the planet’s ecosystem by supporting a revolutionary transformation in global agriculture, with neem at the forefront of this imperative change.…