Fast Fashion Goes To Die In Chile’s Fog Desert
April 4th, 2024
Courtesy of National Geographic, a sobering look at how clothing from many of the world’s favorite brands lies in discarded heaps in Chile’s Atacama Desert: The Atacama Desert in northern Chile stretches from the Pacific to the Andes across a barren expanse of red-orange rock canyons and peaks. As one of the driest deserts on Earth, it’s […]
Read more »Can Africa One Day Help Feed The World’s Growing Population?
April 4th, 2024
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on Africa’s agricultural potential: An hour away from the medina of Marrakech and its throngs of tourists, plains of semi-desert stretch across the horizon. Here, at the Benguerir mine, huge diggers bore into the ochre earth to reach the phosphate rock beneath, a resource that could help shape […]
Read more »Cambodia Getting A China-Backed, Game-Changing Canal
April 4th, 2024
Courtesy of Asia Times, an article on the Funan Techo Canal which will allow Cambodia to bypass Vietnam for its international trade and pull it even tighter into Beijing’s sphere of influence: Cambodia wants to divert Southeast Asia’s Mekong River into a planned US$1.7 billion, Chinese-financed shipping canal to reach a deep-sea port at Kep […]
Read more »World’s Wind Ambitions Require A Makeover For Ports
April 4th, 2024
Via Cipher News, an interesting report which – at initial glance – is focused on Europe and seemingly has little/nothing relevant to frontier markets. However, as the world moves to more renewable energy, I believe there will be a need – and opportunity – for ports in the Global South to position themselves as renewable […]
Read more »China to Woo Partners at ‘Digital Silk Road’ Forum Amidst Increasingly Divided Cyberspace
April 4th, 2024
Via South China Morning Post, a report on China’s plans to woo belt and road partners at ‘digital silk road’ forum in April amid an increasingly divided cyberspace: The Digital Silk Road Development Forum will kick off on April 16 in Xian, capital of western Shaanxi province With China at odds with Western countries in data […]
Read more »Saudi Aramco: Pipeline of Power
April 4th, 2024
Via Fortune, an examination of how Saudi Aramco, the world’s most profitable company over the past decade, are helping the Saudi monarchy shake up the global economic order: For generations, the city of Cannes in the South of France has been famous for its glitzy film festival, where the world’s movie stars strut down the […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.