Global agriculture towards 2050 The challenge Agriculture in the 21st century faces multiple challenges: it has to produce more food and fibre to feed a growing population with a smaller rural labour force, more feedstocks for a potentially huge bioenergy market, contribute to overall development in the many agriculture-dependent developing countries, adopt more efficient [...]

Globalization has an enormous effect on all National Economies, Societies and Business. The modern globalization era has a birth date and a birthplace: the fateful meetings in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in July 1944. That was when the world’s leading economists, politicians, bankers, and corporate figures gathered to figure out what to do to [...]

The olive oil industry is concentrated in and has been controlled for centuries by the Mediterranean nations. Spain, Italy and Greece are the key market players. However, the olive oil industry is undergoing important changes which will be more visible in the forthcoming years. Until today, business was affected by a range of factors that [...]

The Greek economy is facing an extremely difficult situation due to the public deficit which has led the country to a new much more severe memorandum. After 6 years of austerity measures and 2 memorandums which have been put into practice by the IMF, the European Central Bank, the EU and which have been agreed [...]