1. Palm Oil
August 01, 2012
Palm oil is the most extensively used oil in the world; it is in over half of our supermarket products and is widely used for cooking. However the first thing you will find if you try and research it is the mass controversy surrounding it.
So much controversy has been caused lately because ...
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2. The dust has settled and we are still here
July 08, 2012
Tony Abbotts fear campaign in the lead up to the carbon tax introduction has resulted in judgement day coming and going, and we are yet to see the disastrous fall outs that he promised.
He had Australians believing that the second the tax was passed house prices would increase and people wou...
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3. Investments you can be proud of
June 28, 2012
For many investing is all about the returns, placing your money in stocks and shares that will rise in value and therefore raise your profit. A lot of people don’t actually pay attention to the practices of the companies in which they invest; they are looking purely at numbers. With the massive cras...
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4. The need for sustainable palm oil
June 21, 2012
Palm oil is a substance which is needed in vast quantities. It is used in 40% of products which are purchased in the supermarket and very widely used for cooking. There is however a massive issue which is created through the use of palm oil.
Because it is so valuable, many food giants and m...
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5. Sustainable Investing
March 12, 2012
Nowadays the investment market is struggling to provide investors with the returns that are so desperately needed. In a tumultuous economic environment the traditional investment market simply cannot offer products that generate profit without huge amounts of risk.
Interest rates are rising ...
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6. The World Needs More Food
March 07, 2012
The world needs more food. This is a fact that is not going to change, the only changeable aspect of this is the amount of food we need and our ability to grow that amount.
The number of people who need feeding is a constantly changing variable. Our population is growing faster than ever, i...
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7. Capital Alternatives
March 06, 2012
Capital Alternatives: Profitable government-backed alternative investment opportunities
Capital Alternatives is a leading alternative investment company providing innovative and non-traditional investment opportunities having a low correlation to stocks and shares for portfolio diversificat...
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8. The Alternative Investment Market
March 06, 2012
The current financial markets are not as appealing as they used to be. There was a time when you could make a safe investment and be happy with the returns it created after a few years. Sadly however this no longer seems to be the case. The traditional investment market simply cannot deliver high re...
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9. The World Food Crisis
March 06, 2012
The Global Rice Shortage highlighted just how much rice the world consumes and needs every year. In 2008 rice supplies were so insufficient that some retailers began rationing sales. By late April 2008 rice prices had doubled from what they had been just seven months previous. There were many factor...
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10. African Rice
March 06, 2012
In the world today there are nearly 7 billion people, of that 7 billion; 3.6 billion rely on rice as the main staple of their diet. This creates a yearly demand of 437 million tonnes of rice. However the worlds capacity to grow rice actually only stands at 381 mil tonnes a year, leaving a vast short...
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