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August 27, 2020 9:08 AM
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Covid-19 & Sécurité alimentaire | Des pertes alimentaires accrues en Afrique : En Afrique de l’Ouest, la pandémie a révélé les faiblesses de la chaîne d’approvisionnement, mais aussi et surtout, les difficultés à limiter les pertes et gaspillages alimentaires. Entre défaillances logistiques, manque de technologie et dépendance aux exportations, la crise liée au coronavirus est venue aggraver une situation déjà préoccupante. Analyse de Victoria Bancal, chercheuse spécialiste de l'efficience des systèmes alimentaires et Françoise Kouamé, enseignant-chercheur en technologie alimentaire ...
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August 25, 2020 5:43 AM
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The Supply Ministry is paying bakeries a higher fee for producing subsidized bread, according to a decision seen by Al Mal. Bakeries are required to purchase the raw materials for bread, primarily subsidized flour, from millers and then receive monetary compensation from the government for the end product. Bakeries that use diesel fuel will now …
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August 20, 2020 7:34 AM
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Abstract: Improving the food supply chain efficiency has been identified as an essential means to enhance food security, while reducing pressure on natural resources. Adequate food loss and waste (FLW) management has been proposed as an approach to meet these objectives... Highlights - •
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A multivariable analysis on FLW behavior for the COVID-19 outbreak in Spain was done. - •
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Short-term disruptions on eating habits influence food loss and waste (FLW) patterns. - •
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Higher FLW generation rates (+12%) during early stages of the outbreak were observed. - •
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Economic and environmental impacts rose notably, while nutritional quality decreased. - •
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FLW reduction policies must consider future unexpected food disruption scenarios.
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August 18, 2020 11:06 AM
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German farmers are facing the third consecutive year of crop loss due to insufficient rainfall. How can the agriculture industry across Europe adapt to our changing climate?...
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August 18, 2020 9:15 AM
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This month’s WASDE has not changed Australia’s wheat production estimates but there were some surprises. See what the report found here
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August 18, 2020 4:29 AM
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The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19, broadly referred to as “coronavirus”) a global pandemic, while thousands of infections and deaths are reported daily. The current article explores the food systems in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. It provides insights about the properties of bioactive ingredients of foods and herbs for the support of the human immune system against infections before discussing the possibility of COVID-19 transmission through the food chain. It also highlights the global food security issues arising from the fact that one-third of the world’s population is on lockdown. Finally, it underlines the importance of sustainability in the food chain in order to avoid or reduce the frequency of relevant food and health crises in the future.
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August 14, 2020 10:21 AM
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La prochaine récolte mondiale de blé a été légèrement revue à la baisse par le rapport mensuel Wasde du ministère américain de l'agriculture, en raison essentiellement des reculs de production attendus en Europe cet été, dus à la sécheresse notamment.
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August 14, 2020 10:11 AM
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New Delhi, Aug 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) With the largest number of growers, India can emerge as a major player in global organic markets amid increasing demand for healthy and safe food across the world battered by...
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August 14, 2020 9:40 AM
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Les cours du maïs, du blé et du soja cotés à Chicago ont terminé en forte hausse jeudi, portés par des ajustements techniques et les signes d'un regain de demande.
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August 11, 2020 4:27 AM
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Minimizing losses and maximizing the yield is the ultimate goal of every food and feed processor. Modern food and feed processing plants are equipped with the latest technology and even small deviations in yield are easily detectable. The possibilities to further increase the yield in these processes are thus limited.
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August 11, 2020 4:12 AM
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BEIRUT, LEBANON — An explosion at the Port of Beirut on Aug. 4 that killed an estimated 100 people and injured nearly 4,000 significantly damaged a grain facility at the port that stores 85% of Lebanon’s cereals and a nearby flour mill, Reuters reported. The explosion is believed to have been caused by a fire in a warehouse that was storing 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate for the last six years without any safety precautions, Reuters reported, citing Michel Aoun, the president of Lebanon. What . . .
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August 7, 2020 7:46 AM
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La catastrophe survenue mardi 4 août sur le port de Beyrouth, qui a soufflé les installations et une partie de la ville, aggrave la précarité alimentaire qui frappe le pays. Les conséquences de l’explosion vont bien au-delà de ses ravages visibles. En détruisant les infrastructures portuaires, elles mettent en danger l’approvisionnement alimentaire d’un pays dépendant de ses importations et dont 50 % de la population vit sous le seuil de pauvreté, avec des difficultés à se nourrir. L’énorme silo à blé du port de Beyrouth n’est plus qu’une carcasse de béton éventrée. Son contenu s’est répandu jusqu’à l’eau. L’image laisse craindre le pire pour les Libanais : la famine. Selon Pascal Bergeret, directeur du Centre international de hautes études agronomiques méditerranéennes (CIHEAM) à Montpellier, le pays, en grande difficulté financière, n’avait devant lui que deux mois de stocks alimentaires. Une partie, difficile à quantifier, s’est volatilisée avec l’explosion. Pour ce que l’on sait, un cargo ukrainien en attente de déchargement de 5 000 tonnes de blé a résisté au blast…
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August 7, 2020 4:10 AM
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In North Africa, harvesting of wheat and barley crops finalized in July, and below-average production resulted in Morocco and parts of Algeria and Tunisia where crops were unable to recover from seasonal drought and high temperatures. In the Middle East, harvesting of wheat crops finalized in July, and final yields were favourable except in areas affected by conflict.
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August 25, 2020 12:33 PM
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La nécessité de diversifier nos sources de protéines s’impose pour de nombreuses raisons, qu’elles soient environnementales ou nutritionnelles, et s’est encore accentuée depuis la crise du Covid-19. Les ventes de substituts ultra-réalistes à la viande, aux produits laitiers mais aussi aux produits de la mer et aux œufs se développent rapidement en Amérique du Nord et en Asie, et arrivent sur les marchés européens.
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August 25, 2020 5:42 AM
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Egypt’s wheat imports to fall slightly this marketing year -USDA: Egypt, the world’s leading grain buyer, is projected to import 13 mn tonnes of wheat in MY2020-2021, down slightly from a record 13.3 mn tonnes in MY2019-2020, a US Department of Agriculture report (pdf). Last marketing year’s spike in wheat imports came partially as a …
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August 20, 2020 6:50 AM
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This year we celebrate the first ever observance of the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste. It also comes during the global COVID-19 pandemic, that has brought about a global wake-up on the need to transform and rebalance the way our food is produced and consumed. Reducing food losses and waste is essential in a world where the number of people affected by hunger has been slowly on the rise since 2014, and tons and tons of edible food are lost and/or wasted every day. Food loss and waste also puts unnecessary pressure on the natural resource base and on the environment, depleting the natural resource base and generating greenhouse gases. Read more and discover what you can do. Take action, start something. Stop food loss and waste. For the people. For the planet.
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August 18, 2020 9:52 AM
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Les récoltes en deçà des attentes des professionnels. Entamée il y a près d’un mois, la campagne moissons-battages 2019-20 à travers la wilaya de Souk Ahras tire à sa fin, et ses résultats semblent satisfaire les responsables des services agricoles locaux, lesquels parlent de “récolte moyenne”. Chebah Sid-Ahmed, directeur des services agricoles de cette wilaya, indique que la collecte, encore en cours dans certaines communes au relief accidenté, s’élève à 855 540 q de blé dur, 201 720 q de blé tendre et 16 807 q d’orge, soit un total de 1 100 000 q de céréales, qui ont été réceptionnés par la CCLS. Ce responsable ne cache pas sa déception en comparant ces résultats à ceux de la campagne précédente, qui avaient dépassé les 1 700 000 q.
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August 18, 2020 4:33 AM
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COVID-19 pandemic is on a trajectory to cause catastrophic global upheaval with the potential to alter geopolitical and socio-economic norms. Many countries are frantically responding with staggering financial stimulus recovery initiatives. This opinion-paper reviews challenges, opportunities, and potential solutions for the post-COVID-19 era that focuses on intensive sustaining of agri-food supply chain in tandem with meeting the high demand for new green deal innovation. For example, the development of wet peatland innovation, known as Paludiculture, can intensively sustain and blend agri-food and green innovations that will help support COVID-19 pandemic transitioning. The future looks bright for the creation of new sustainability multi-actor innovation hubs that will support, connect, and enable businesses to recover and pivot beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. The nexus between first ‘Green Deal’ initiative supporting 64 selected European Startups and SMEs (European Innovation Council) and 48 Irish Disruptive Technology projects are addressed in the context of cross-cutting developments and relevance to COVID-19. Candidate areas for future consideration will ...
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August 18, 2020 4:28 AM
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Food loss and waste (FLW) represents one of the most significant social, economic, and environmental issues facing our planet. At a time in history where nearly one billion people are still dying of hunger or have to settle for inadequate nutrition every year, it is unacceptable that over a third of the world’s […]
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August 14, 2020 10:18 AM
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Discover harvest progress across Great Britain. Compare regions, crops and timeframes with the interactive tool or read the latest report
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August 14, 2020 10:03 AM
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AMA Research added a comprehensive research document of 200+ pages on ‘Pulse Flour’market with detailed insights on growth factors and strategies. The study segments key regions that includes North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific with country level break-up and provide volume* and value related cross segmented information by each country.
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August 12, 2020 12:35 PM
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The wheat market is still coming to terms with the big Russian crop," a futures dealer said. Euronext spot wheat futures were little changed on Wednesday, holding near a six-week low as rising forecasts for Russia's harvest kept attention on ample global supply ahead of widely followed U.S. government crop forecasts. Front-month September milling wheat BL2U0 on the Paris-based Euronext exchange was unchanged on the day at 177.75 euros ($209.25) a tonne at 1413 GMT, close to a six-week low of 176.75 euros struck on Monday and again on Tuesday. Price moves and trading volumes were modest in the run-up the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) August supply and demand report due at 1600 GMT.
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August 11, 2020 4:17 AM
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World market wheat prices have trended lower in recent months, despite reduced production forecasts for some important producing areas, on the expectation of ample supplies in the new marketing year. In its Grain: World Markets and Trade report, published July 10, the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) of the US Department of Agriculture reported price declines for most major exporting countries during June, mainly because of seasonal pressure ahead of a forecast record world harvest. “Russia was pressured lower as harvest approaches with relatively favorable conditions to date,” it said. “EU prices declined despite some lingering concerns over dryness in some Member States. Canada’s prices also declined on seasonal pressure and expectations for a large crop. US prices moved lower as well with the US winter wheat harvest now more than halfway complete.” The FAS described Australian prices as having “plummeted as quotes now reference new-crop prices, which reflect expectations of a much larger crop. On the other hand, Argentina edged higher on seasonally tightening supplies. Prices rebounded in recent days with expectations of smaller crops in the European Union and Russia.” In its July 14 Wheat Outlook report, the Economic Research Service (ERS) of the USDA said notable reductions in the upcoming wheat crops in the EU and United Kingdom, Russia (but only for winter wheat), Morocco, Mexico and the United States had triggered a cut in the Department’s forecast for global wheat production of 4.49 million tonnes, bringing it to 773.4 million. . .
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August 11, 2020 3:58 AM
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The huge explosion in Lebanon’s capital of Beirut tore through major grain silos, stoking fears of shortages in a nation that imports nearly all its food and is already reeling from economic crisis. Tuesday’s blast, which killed at least 100 people and injured thousands, occurred next to a grain store in the city’s port, much of which was wrecked. Video footage appeared to show grain spilling from the silos, which have a capacity of 120,000 tons. The government said the storage facility was mostly empty, but that stocks which were there are unusable ...
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August 7, 2020 4:55 AM
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La moisson 2020 touche à sa fin en France, et bon nombre d’agriculteurs se demandent comment vont évoluer les prix du blé dans les prochains mois. Pour Laurent Crastre, analyste marché des grains chez Tallage, pas de baisse des prix à l’horizon, mais plutôt une hausse probable.
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