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De la crise sanitaire qui continue à affecter de nombreux pays à travers le monde sont nées d’autres crises à différents niveaux, particulièrement sur les plans social et économique. La résilience des pays face à cette situation inédite a été d’ailleurs mise à rude épreuve. C’est le cas justement en ce qui concerne la sécurité alimentaire et la protection du pouvoir d’achat des consommateurs.
Turkey’s agricultural exports increased by 3.9% in the first seven months of 2020 compared to the same period last year despite the disruption in supply chains in the food sector caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
The Lebanese agriculture and food production industry has come under multiple threats, and the coronavirus-spurred economic contraction has exacerbated the hit already laid upon the sector by the ongoing currency crisis. Experts warn that compounding issues in the country could lead to production decreases and further price increases in the coming months. Food prices in the country are already on the rise as inflation has begun to soar and the local currency has lost half its value against the dollar.
The COVID-19 pandemic quickly evolved from a health crisis to a large-scale global economic crisis. Like most of the world’s countries, Tunisia is facing a new unfamiliar challenge. Tunisia’s government quickly realized the critical health challenge of COVID-19 and took measures to contain the virus including imposing a full lockdown and providing new equipment to the health facilities.
Vendredi 29 mai 2020 Entretien avec Alessandro Giacone, professeur d'Institutions politiques à l'Université de Bologne. Il a écrit plusieurs ouvrages dont notamment La France et l’Italie, histoire de deux nations sœurs de 1660 à nos jours (avec Gilles Bertrand et Jean-Yves Frétigné, Paris, Armand Colin, 2016).
Jeudi 4 juin 2020 Entretien avec Rayco González, professeur de sémiotique à l'Université de Burgos. Il est coauteur du livre Documentos del presente. Una mirada semiótica (Lengua de Trapo,2018). Modération : Dominique Vidal, journaliste et historien.
The agriculture sector in Egypt, which has suffered neglect over many decades, has found a silver lining in the coronavirus pandemic. The disease outbreak has disrupted the supply chain around the world, with major producers finding it either difficult to send their crops to foreign markets or unable to satisfy demand in local markets. This has opened up a window of opportunity for Egyptian agricultural products in foreign markets, including those that were difficult to enter in the past because of fierce competition with products from other countries.
The last several years have been not easy for Algeria. The country has undergone considerable political turmoil and the economy has underperformed. Now Algeria’s precarious economic and political situation is being hit hard by the growing presence of the coronavirus. The economy, which was also slammed by the recent Russian-Saudi price war, is now expected to contract 5.2 percent for 2020. Algeria is one of Europe’s major natural gas suppliers and sits in a region marked by the large flow of migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa, factors that elevate its geopolitical importance to the European Union, especially France and Italy, which are major trade customers and would be on the receiving end of any new waves of migrants.
What has COVID-19 changed for the EU's Farm to Fork Strategy? Nothing apart from underlining the urgency of transforming our food systems, write Nick Jacobs, Celia Nyssens and Nikolai Pushkarev.
Entretien avec : Akram Belkaïd, journaliste au Monde diplomatique, collaborateur d’Orient XXI et d’Afrique Magazine, chroniqueur au Quotidien d’Oran. Il a publié plusieurs ouvrages dont notamment Pleine lune sur Bagdad (Erick Bonnier, 2017), son dernier livre est L’Algérie en 100 questions. Un pays empêché (Tallandier, 2019).
Comment garantir notre capacité à assurer une alimentation adaptée à nos besoins, même quand surviennent des événements imprévus comme une pandémie de coronavirus ? Quatre étudiantes et cinq étudiants de Montpellier SupAgro ont imaginé une vidéo pour y répondre. La vision de futurs ingénieurs agronomes sur la production alimentaire demain en France.
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IFPRI, 13/05 - Food losses and waste (FLW) have been a challenge in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region since long before the COVID-19, but this calamity, that rapidly became an economic crisis, is bringing disruptions to food systems that may manifest in greater levels of FLW. Containment and prevention measures are affecting the complex web of interactions along value chains, involving producers and input/service providers, intermediaries, and consumers.
Olive Oil Times, 11/05 - After seven weeks of a lockdown, things aren’t getting any easier for Sicilian farmers. Now they face two new adversaries: a sales slump and a drought. Olive oil sales, in general, have been robust during the COVID-19 lockdown, but this has not benefited producers of Sicilian extra virgin olive oil. Consumers are leaving their products on the shelves in favour of cheaper blends made from imported oils, mostly from Spain and Tunisia...
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With food in short supply and prices rocketing, a wave of new farmers are growing produce on roofs, balconies and beyond. Long before the Covid-19 pandemic and the devastating explosion in Beirut on 4 August, Lebanon was already deep in economic crisis. For many, farming is emerging as a solution.
The seed industry is truly globalised: A seed lot can be expected to travel through several countries for multiplication, production, processing and packaging before it reaches a farmer. It is also time sensitive, with defined periods for sowing and harvesting different crops. As such, the necessary restrictions on movement and transport put in place by governments to protect their people from COVID-19 have the potential to seriously affect the production, certification, distribution and cost of seed.
The “Malta Farm Map” aims to support local farmers sell their local fruits and vegetables by connecting farmers and customers directly in this time of crisis. Farmers put a lot of work and passion into growing food, and we want citizens to get a glimpse of that. Right now people want to support local farmers but are finding it hard to purchase from them. Customers can now locate their nearest friendly farmer and buy their fresh local produce directly. In that way they will be promoting the local farming community which had already been struggling even before the current crisis.
Les quatre organisations internationales, FAO, Fida, PAM et Banque mondiale, estiment que le travail agricole et l’approvisionnement en intrants sont perturbés. Et que cela fera « payer un lourd tribut aux personnes vivant dans les pays les plus pauvres ».
Il est possible que la crise sanitaire apporte à l’Egypte de nouvelles opportunités en termes de productions agricoles. L’agriculture, qui représente un quart des emplois en Égypte et près de 12% de son PIB, apparaît comme l’un des secteurs-clés de l’économie nationale. La forte croissance démographique et la demande extérieure invitent naturellement le pays à intensifier son activité agricole...
Alors que le Covid-19 apparaissait sur le territoire marocain en ce début d’année 2020, très rapidement l’inquiétude d’un bouleversement réel de notre vie en société pointait son nez. Fort heureusement un retour à la normal semble d’actualité en ce début de mois de juin 2020. De plus, tout le monde est inquiet quant aux difficultés économiques que pouvait engendrer cette crise et notamment auprès des agriculteurs marocains. Eclairage.
La pandémie de la Covid-19 nous a montré que les secteurs les plus importants pour la survie de l’homme, sont ceux de la santé et de l’agriculture. Ce dernier secteur doit être considéré comme prioritaire dans tout programme de développement et mérite une attention et un soutien particuliers. Il doit cependant remédier aux inconvénients qu’on …
Dans une récente publication intitulée «La covid-19 et l’impact sur la sécurité alimentaire dans la région du Proche- Orient et de l’Afrique du Nord», l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO) dresse un état des lieux contrasté sur la situation des pays de la région. Selon les conclusions de l'organisation onusienne, l’Algérie est vulnérable sur sa sécurité alimentaire intérieure alors que le Maroc et la Tunisie sont plutôt vulnérables quant à leurs exportations agricoles.
Les exportations des produits maraîchers ont enregistré une croissance de 6%. Les produits transformés, hors sucre, ont enregistré une croissance de l’ordre de 17%.
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased demand for local products in France and could have a positive effect on the development of functional foods, according to Mintel. On 17 March 2020, French President Emmanuel Macron announced strict confinement measures in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. This meant that residents across the country were required to carry a signed travel pass, or attestation, whenever they left home. Failure to do so could result in a €135 fine.
COVID-19 reminds us how crucial farmers are in securing Malta’s fragile food supply. But will it be the wake-up call to farming from decline and concrete? Jeanette Borg set up the Malta Youth in Agriculture Foundation (MaYA) to protect the interests of young Maltese farmers, and she has been vocal about food security with her call to fully use Malta’s idle uncultivated fields by facilitating young farmers’ access to this land.
Impakter, 07/05 - At first glance, the COVID-19 crisis appears to have nothing to do with the climate emergency. Over the last month, COVID-19 has eclipsed climate change and many other global challenges as the most pressing issue we face worldwide. Between learning to manage life on lockdown and monitoring the surreal charts depicting soaring numbers of infections and deaths across the globe, it can be difficult to find brain space for anything else.
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