Lack of rules hinders development in Morocco’s Rif, but co-op keeps building
The Moroccan government last year passed a law that could give impoverished farmers in the country’s Central Rif a chance to give up illegal cannabis…
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Interest in building materials rising fast
[Last in a series of recaps on industry developments in 2021] The market for hemp building materials is still small, but momentum is growing. Hemp…
Michigan company gets grant for hemp-based soil research
Michigan-based Heartland Industries has received a $360,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in support of Hemp4Soil, a soil innovation program. The three-year…
New book looks at 50 hemp building projects around the globe
A new book by hemp building pioneer Steve Allin takes a comprehensive overview of projects that showcase the use of hemp-based materials in architectural examples…
Polish group’s whole-plant strategy stresses innovation, sustainability
A Poland-based hemp innovation hub has sparked initiatives in hemp proteins, plant-based foods and biocomposites that can replace wood as it pursues a whole-plant strategy…
‘Hemp surging as an environmental alternative to other fibers’
INTERVIEW: A 31-year veteran of the hemp industry, Lawrence Serbin is president of California-based Hemp Traders, which he founded in 1994. He started Cannagrove, a…
German groups call for ‘100-Day Program’ to back hemp sector development
Two key German associations are calling on the incoming government coalition to urgently establish a program that will promote industrial hemp as a strategy to…
Hemp probed to clean land in South Africa’s toxic gold mining areas
A South African researcher is looking into the potential of hemp farming to clean the soil in abandoned, highly-polluted former gold mining areas, and how…
German hemp stakeholders hopeful about reforms under new government
Recent election results in Germany have buoyed hemp stakeholders as parties expected to be represented in the new government are on record as agreeing to…
Plastics startup off to fast start after raising $1 million via crowdfunding
Startup Canadian Industrial Hemp Corporation (CIHC) said it has raised more than $1 million of a $5 million dollar goal on crowdfunding site wefunder.com. Lewes,…
