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Home » Industrial Agriculture » International Finance Corporation Should Stop Bankrolling Destructive AgribusinessIn late June, the World Bank’s private sector arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), approved a US$200M loan to agribusiness giant Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC). Under the guise of “sustainable development,” the loan will be used to purchase soy and corn—mostly destined for

Sanchez: Organic Agriculture Program of Negros Occidental

Kaue Martins is a Geoprocessing intern at WRI Brasil. He is part of the Forest, Land Use and Agriculture Program team, working in analysis and systematization of spatial data in several projects. Before the current position at WRI Brasil, Kaue worked in Geoprocessing at the Environmental Information Division at the Sao Paulo Municipal Secretariat for Green and the Environment. He has also been developing the production of topographic maps for adventure tourism in Brazil. Additionally, he has taken a course in Mapping with Drones and data processing for precision agriculture. 

Senator Cynthia A. Villar on Tuesday, June 14 reiterated the adoption of composting procedures and the use of organic fertilizer to protect the soil after noting that bad practices in agriculture reduce nutrients in the soil which resulted to its 38 percent degradation. In her video message during

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