Founding, development, implementation and management of commercially viable, socially integrative and ecologically sustainable agribusiness projects and companies (including agrotechnology companies), mainly in Europe and Africa; provision of professional consulting services to companies, investors, civil society organizations and governments on risks and opportunities in the agribusiness sector and on issues of ecological sustainability worldwide; holdings; acquisition, encumbrance, sale and management of real estate; the company may grant loans or other financings to its direct or indirect parent companies as well as their direct or indirect subsidiaries and provide collateral of any kind for the liabilities of such other companies, including by way of pledges or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or by way of guarantees of any kind.