Monday
March 16
2026

Press Release: IFC Backs Paraguay’s First Green Fertilizer Plant, Creating Jobs, Advancing Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has announced the signing of debt financing documents for the Villeta Green Fertilizer Project, a pioneering initiative developed by ATOME PLC, that will establish one of the world’s first commercial-scale clean hydrogen-based fertilizer plants, based in Paraguay.  The project will support the country’s longstanding objective of moving up the value chain by transforming its abundant renewable energy into higher value-added industrial production, while creating jobs, strengthening fertilizer and food supply resilience in key agricultural inputs, and advancing industrial diversification.

Photo courtesy of Christophe Maertens.

Source: IFC (link opens in a new window)

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Agriculture
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development finance, employment, food security, innovation, renewable energy, scale