CIHEAM Press Review

British sheep meat sales to the Middle East have rocketed with exports to Jordan, Kuwait and the UAE seeing large increases.
It comes as the UK launches a trade mission to Kuwait next week to promote British lamb.
The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board, a statutory levy board funded by farmers and growers, told The National the Middle East is a key market.
It is investing £180,000 in the Middle East’s 2024 Gulfood festival, which will take place at the Dubai World Trade Centre in February, to showcase British produce.

This year was already expected to pose challenges for Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. Inflationary pressures have been driving up the price of goods since the fourth quarter of 2021. Persistent unemployment, worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic, aggravated social discontent. Now, as winter turns to spring, socio-economic stability in the Maghreb is being imperiled by the conflict in Ukraine and insufficient rainfall at home. Higher prices for food commodities and hydrocarbons are upending budgetary calculations across North African capitals.

MEDITERRANEAN. The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) lists forty-five countries that will need external food aid in 2021. Three of them are in the Mediterranean.