Worrying increase in cotton stocks
9 June 2020According to the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC), world cotton stocks in 2019/2020 could reach a level not seen in five years. This is the result of a decline in.
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GEF Funds Agricultural Resilience Projects in Africa
8 June 2020The Council of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) has just allocated $176 million in funding for initiatives to adapt agriculture to climate change. In total, this funding will benefit 24.
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Coronavirus could kill the meat industry
5 June 2020By crowding animals in confined and unsanitary conditions for slaughter – mixing blood, viscera and excrement – slaughterhouses create an environment that is conducive to the multiplication of pathogens. Slaughterhouses.
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FAO food index down 3.4% in April
4 June 2020According to the FAO, food products, which have been in decline for the past three months, fell by a further 3.4% in April. The decline is 10% compared to January..
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The rubber victim of the Coronavirus
2 June 2020Natural rubber is one of the major victims of the Covid-19 pandemic because of the fall in world automobile production, which is its main user for the manufacture of tyres..
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Record funding for European agri-tech in 2019
29 May 2020European agrifood tech start-ups have raised $3.4 billion – for 419 financing operations – an increase of 70% compared to 2019. The year 2020 will be less rosy, judging by.
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500 million for countries affected by the locust invasion
28 May 2020The World Bank has approved $500 million in response to the consequences of the locust invasion in Africa and the Middle East. This financial assistance includes low-interest loans and grants.
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The world is drowning in wheat stocks…
27 May 2020The stockpiling of bread and flour by worried consumers during this coronavirus crisis may have led people to believe that the world was running out of wheat. Export restrictions by.
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Threats to the banana
26 May 2020Bananas are the symbol of globalisation. Trade in this fruit began 130 years ago. It generates an annual turnover of $25 billion. 20 million tons of bananas were exported in.
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The globalisation of agricultural trade in question
22 May 2020“Belgians are invited to eat more chips, in Britain farmers have poured millions of pints of milk into the ground instead of turning it into butter. In Iran, millions of.
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