Business & Economy: Around The World [07.09.15]

 

Agriculture

• The Biggest Opportunity In Agriculture May Be In Africa – Seventy percent of the world’s uncultivated arable land is on the continent

America In Realization [04.07.15]

Economy & Business: Silicon Valley

• Silicon Valley Sows Seeds For New Era in Agriculture and Food Tech [WSJ]

“Precision Agriculture, Indoor Farming, Food Safety, Alternative Foods and Farm Robots – among the list as possible next big things”

[Courtesy of Wall Street Journal]

Foreign Policy: US – Iran Relations

Iranians fly kites during an annual public picnic on the 13th day of the Iranian new year, at the Pardisan Park in Tehran

Iranian President Hasan Rouhani inspecting port facilities of the South Pars Gas field

 

#IranNuclearDeal

• In Iran, Western Companies See a Possible New Market [WSJ]

“A country of 80 million has been all but cut off from global trade for years.

In a sanctions-free Iran, Western energy companies would likely be the biggest foreign first-movers: Iran has the world’s fourth-largest proven oil reserves and second-largest natural gas reserves.

Iranians are nostalgic for American products … Many Iranians remember driving Chevys, Cadillacs, Buicks and Mustangs before the 1979 Islamic revolution.

Process is underway .. Iranian companies in Dubai have received draft contracts to be official resellers of Hewlett-Packard laptops in Iran.”