Two hemp processing initiatives moving forward in southwestern France illustrate how the country's industrial fiber sector is ...

Chinese-Portuguese joint venture, Nau Verde, says it is nearing completion of a natural fibers spinning factory in northern ...

A newly established cooperative in Uganda is seeking to organize farmers and attract investment in industrial hemp and ...

Companies that have poured hundreds of thousands into the UK safety review for CBD now face the likelihood that approvals won’t come through the national system before regulatory control reverts to ...

Botswana is preparing to launch commercial hemp production after government trials demonstrated the crop can be grown successfully across the country’s diverse climates, moving the sector from ...

Europe’s CBD industry is emerging from the novel foods era smaller, weaker and stripped of many of the companies that fueled the sector’s early boom. What began as a regulatory exercise has turned ...

U.S. federal health officials have opened a narrow new path for certain consumer hemp products under a handful of Medicare test programs, allowing participating health groups to provide them to some ...

The Australian state of New South Wales is backing its industrial hemp ambitions with a development strategy that signals the government intends to build an industrial manufacturing sector around the ...

A Chinese-backed project in New South Wales has won A$10 million ($6.5 million) in government funding for a processing facility that proponents say would be Australia’s first large-scale producer of ...

Helped by an EU-funded initiative, stakeholders in France are working to strengthen the hemp textiles supply chain, engaging farmers, processors, and textile producers from north to south in a ...

Spain and Portugal are launching a joint initiative aimed at developing an array of applications in continuing efforts to kickstart a viable hemp economy in the Iberian Peninsula. The project, called ...

Canada’s leading trade group has urged health officials to raise the country’s THC limit for industrial hemp to 1.0%, eliminate most licensing requirements and open broader markets for hemp flowers – ...