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April 16, 2020 10:24 AM
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IFPRI Blog, 14/04 - Three months after the outbreak began, it is easy to see the COVID-19 pandemic for what it is: A human tragedy that constitutes the most severe blow to the global economy since the Second World War. It has swiftly overwhelmed the health systems of all nations—developed and developing—producing social and economic impacts that will be unprecedented in scale. For the poorest countries, however, the full danger is only just coming into view. They will face the crisis from a position of profound disadvantage: Their health systems are fragile, their access to critical medical supplies is tenuous, their economies are less resilient and heavily dependent on trade. They could soon come under siege on all fronts—and a health, economic, and social catastrophe here would be felt across the world. It would fan the spread of
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April 16, 2020 10:16 AM
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AMIS, April 2 - While the impact of the coronavirus crisis on global food markets has so far been limited, the pandemic poses a serious threat to food security at local level. According to official statistics, the virus has not yet spread widely in countries where food insecurity is pervasive, most notably in Sub-Saharan Africa. If it did, the outbreak could be expected to have similar effects to previous epidemic-induced shocks, such as the Ebola Virus Disease, which caused steep harvest reductions, food price spikes and aggravated food insecurity. Additionally, and perhaps more imminent, is the risk posed by the global economic downturn caused by the coronavirus crisis, which may compromise import-dependent countries’ ability to purchase foods and cause income losses for households, with acute food security repercussions. Agricultural production systems in the most vulnerable countries are predominantly labour intensive. Quarantine measures, self-isolation and aversion behaviour in response to an outbreak would therefore cut the labour supply, potentially resulting in acreage contractions, limiting crop management and ultimately curbing harvests
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April 16, 2020 10:08 AM
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World Grain, 15/04 — Russia's agriculture ministry sold 132,648 tonnes of grain, mainly wheat, from the state stockpile for 1.6 billion roubles ($22 million) in an auction on April 14, Reuters reported. In its first auction on April 13, it sold 121,416 tonnes of grain, the report said. The ministry said it plans to sell up to 1.5 million tonnes of grain — 83% of its state stockpile — into the domestic market to increase supply for flour millers and bakers amid the coronavirus outbreak. “These . . .
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April 16, 2020 10:06 AM
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Les exportations de blé tendre français devraient atteindre le niveau record de 13,2 Mt, d'après FranceAgriMer. Mais si les exports progressent vers les pays tiers, la demande du nord de l'Europe s'affiche en repli, tout comme les utilisations intérieures. Quant à la logistique, elle s'est montrée réactive et adaptable, mais le surcoût sur le transport par camion pose problème.
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April 16, 2020 4:00 AM
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Le monde d'après-coronavirus ne devrait pas être comme celui d'hier. Afin de donner corps à cette affirmation, vertueuse ou volontariste, « Futuribles » a lancé le chantier prospectif de la sortie de crise. Le centre français de référence pour ce qui concerne la prospective a mobilisé ses experts pour des « esquisses de scénarios à l'horizon 2021-2022 ». Appuyé sur une méthode rigoureuse ainsi que sur les données et incertitudes du moment, un premier document explore l'évolution de la pandémie, la crise sanitaire et sa gestion en France, la situation économique et sociale dans l'Hexagone également. Dans quelques mois donc. Des scénarios globaux ressortent : le plus probable est baptisé « sur le fil du rasoir », le moins probable « la Grande Dépression ».
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April 16, 2020 3:57 AM
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As the world battles the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the social and economic disruption it is generating, concern about the impact it will have on food systems is growing. While it is still too early to know the extent of the effects the pandemic will have on food insecurity or poverty, we can be sure that the poor and vulnerable people are likely to suffer the most.
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April 16, 2020 3:56 AM
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Ici, nous faisions le point, à chaud, sur l’actualité des filières alimentaires confrontées à la crise du coronavirus. Là, nous convoquions l’histoire pour éclairer cette notion qui refait surface, à la faveur des événements, dans nos sociétés occidentales : la pénurie. A présent, déplaçons-nous outre-Méditerranée et regardons du côté des pays du Maghreb et d’Afrique subsaharienne. Qu’en est-il, pour ces pays majoritairement importateurs, des effets de la crise du coronavirus sur l’approvisionnement des denrées alimentaires ? Y a-t-il un risque de pénurie, de hausse des prix et de la spéculation ? Les réponses du chercheur Omar Bessaoud, ancien administrateur scientifique du CIHEAM-IAM-Montpellier, que nous avons souvent eu l’occasion d’inviter lors des Controverses européennes.
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April 14, 2020 9:45 AM
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World Grain, 06/04 — Egypt may change its grain purchase methods as it prepares to boost its strategic reserves ahead of any export curbs, Reuters reported. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi encouraged the boost as concerns increase about food supplies due to the coronavirus pandemic. The General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) may ask suppliers to offer prices on a cost and freight basis instead of free-on-board, Reuters said. GASC usually asks for wheat prices on an FOB basis with freight in a separate tender. “Cost and . . .
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April 14, 2020 5:54 AM
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World Grain, 08/04 — COFCO was granted another 500,000 tonnes of soybeans from China’s reserves for commercial crushing, Reuters reported, citing two sources briefed on the matter. Rains delayed cargoes from Brazil and caused soybean inventories to fall to record lows. One of the sources told Reuters the supplies will be delivered to COFCO’s crushing plants in the next couple of weeks. The supplies will help crushing companies maintain soybean meal output until fresh soybeans arrive from Brazil and elsewhere later in the month. This is . . .
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April 14, 2020 5:40 AM
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Ecomnews Med a pu interviewer par visioconférence Pascal Bergeret, le Directeur du CIHEAM-IAMM (Institut agronomique méditerranéen de Montpellier). Il nous livre son analyse sur la situation dans les pays du pourtour méditerranéen. Avis d'expert...
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April 9, 2020 10:19 AM
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April 9, 2020 10:14 AM
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Strengthening food production and distribution systems is key to fighting hunger and entails helping tackle diseases wherever they emerge in humans, animals, plants or the environment. The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a global health crisis, and FAO is playing a role in assessing and responding to its potential impacts on people’s life and livelihoods, global food trade, markets, food supply chains and livestock. FAO believes this will allow countries to anticipate and mitigate possible disruptions the pandemic may trigger for people’s food security and livelihoods, avoiding panic-driven reactions that can aggravate disruptions and deteriorate the food and nutrition security of the most vulnerable. FAO is working closely with WHO, WFP, IFAD and OIE and other partners, harnessing broad networks to drive further research, support ongoing investigations and share critical knowledge
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April 16, 2020 10:20 AM
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IFPRI Blog, 15/04 - The April 7 launch of IFPRI’s flagship 2020 Global Food Policy Report—this year focusing on the theme “building inclusive food systems”—occurred as the COVID-19 pandemic was starting to affect food supply chains around the world. These emerging challenges are formidable, and they shine a spotlight on why building more inclusive food systems is a critical task. “Even in prosperous times and prosperous societies, too many people are still excluded from fully participating in food systems and securing their benefits...in times of crisis, like today, inclusion is an even greater imperative for protecting the most vulnerable,” IFPRI Director General Johan Swinnen said as he
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April 16, 2020 10:12 AM
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Reflecting surging consumer demand and widespread logistical restrictions amid the coronavirus global pandemic, coupled with sustained drought conditions, as at 8 April benchmark 5% broken white rice in Thailand had increased by US$152 fob Bangkok since the turn of the year, reaching a seven-year high. Rice prices have also firmed in other parts of the world, including in Vietnam, where in late March the government temporarily ceased issuing fresh export licenses in order to prevent further gains in the local market. Cambodia and Myanmar also imposed restrictions on dispatches, while shipments by India have been greatly impeded by logistical constraints and labour shortages.
Despite sharp gains in prices, global availabilities of rice appear ample, and supplies are forecast to exceed demand in 2019/20 and 2020/21. The combination of surging prices and export restrictions amid a broadly comfortable world supply and demand balance has led some to make comparisons with the 2008 rice price crisis. However, while the full impact of the pandemic remains highly uncertain at this time, significant ...
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April 16, 2020 10:07 AM
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BUCHAREST, ROMANIA — As of April 10, the government of Romania has suspended most exports of grains, oilseeds and related products to markets outside of the EU, according to a report from the Foreign Agricultural Service of the US Department of Agriculture. Deliveries can continue within the EU as long as trading partners guarantee that the commodities will be consumed within the EU and not re-exported. The government made the decision due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) and growing concerns about the winter crop’s impact from . . .
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April 16, 2020 9:56 AM
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Terre-net, 16/04 - Les prix du blé rebondissaient nettement, jeudi à la mi-journée, portés par des considérations techniques et relancés par un nouvel appel d'offres de l'Egypte. Plombé par un marché du pétrole déprimé et une chute de la demande d'éthanol, Chicago, qui réagissait également aux nouvelles de pluies sur l'Europe et le bassin de production céréalier de la mer Noire, « a vraiment surcorrigé » mercredi, estimait Damien Vercambre, analyste au cabinet Inter-Courtage. La bourse américaine rebondissait donc jeudi, en préséance, sur les contrats de blé pour 2020. Parmi les facteurs de soutien des prix, demeurent également des fondamentaux comme la demande mondiale, toujours soutenue. Dans certains ports français, comme Dunkerque, « il n'y a plus que les céréales qui tournent », selon les propos des personnels portuaires, rapportés par Damien Vercambre. Illustration de ce phénomène, l'Egypte a ainsi relancé un appel d'offres, après n'avoir acheté que ...
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April 16, 2020 3:58 AM
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Plutôt que de réparer sans cesse des crises comme celle du Covid-19, la seule véritable assurance vie que l'on puisse transmettre aux prochaines générations est une politique de prévention en matière sanitaire et alimentaire.
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Cretan farmers said supermarkets currently absorbs 30 percent of their production of fruits and vegetables with the rest being unsold since many eateries and other food services are closed, while their counterparts in the Ilia region of the Peloponnese have already discarded part of their fresh crop of strawberries and zucchinis due to limited demand.
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April 14, 2020 10:42 AM
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3 April 2020 - Joint statement of the outgoing and incoming AMIS Chairs: Marcelo Fernandes Guimarães of Brazil’s Ministry of Agriculture and Anastassios Haniotis of the European Commission. The rapid spread of COVID-19 poses a serious challenge to global food security. This challenge can only be overcome through close coordination and coordinated efforts of the world’s leading players in food markets, which are united in the Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS). AMIS was created by the G20 in response to the food price crisis of 2007/08. Ever since its establishment, the initiative has successfully contributed to maintaining stability in global food markets both by enhancing food market transparency and by promoting policy dialogue and coordination. In sharp contrast to market developments witnessed during the last food price crisis, which was triggered by cereal supply tightness, current market uncertainties are not linked to scarcity. In fact, latest AMIS estimates see cereal production close to historic highs while stocks are considered to be at comfortable levels. Instead, the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting food systems as a whole, which makes a concerted response even more pertinent. An unexpected and fast decline in commodity prices has hit producers while a strong depreciation of most currencies against the US dollar risks wiping out any price benefits for consumers: a combination that could potentially threaten global food security for some time to come. In addition to this, lockdowns, quarantine measures and border closures aimed at containing the virus have started to have crippling impacts on logistics and transport, which
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April 14, 2020 9:35 AM
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World Grain, 07/04 — Saudi Arabia’s state grain buyer, SAGO, is asking Saudi investors with farmland overseas to import 355,000 tonnes of wheat into the kingdom in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Reuters reported on April 7. SAGO Governor Ahmed al-Fares said on April 6 that SAGO was making a special call to Saudi investors abroad to supply 10% of the country’s wheat needs. In response to the pandemic, major wheat exporters such as Russia and Ukraine have indicated they would limit exports in . . .
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April 14, 2020 5:51 AM
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World Grain, 07/04 - Weather is no longer leading the commodity markets as it so often does. The world’s pandemic continues to dominate the marketplace, and prior to that it was mostly about China. It would be a safe bet to say weather will be back at center stage before too long, but for now it will be lie quietly with little to say about the world’s grain and oilseed trade. There is likely to be a short bump in the weather road that could occur soon that might briefly give the market a little lift, and that is when it is realized that early US planting will be delayed while Safrinha corn in Brazil dries out as the crop approaches reproduction. US early-season planting is certainly not off to the kind to start that producers and traders like to see. The impact is mostly on the US Delta and parts of Texas and, quite frankly, the region just will not have much to say about the entire US production year. However, it will be April before fieldwork begins in the heart of that region and even then conditions may not be ideal. Despite recent weather patterns, saturated soil and recent flooding conditions are expected to turn around later this spring. Farmers need to be aware that ... . .
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April 9, 2020 10:44 AM
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The Guardian, 08/04 - Dutch officials and British economist to use guide to help city thrive in balance with planet, using the "doughnut model".
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April 9, 2020 10:16 AM
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There are countless articles these days on how the Covid-19 crisis is stress-testing the mechanisms and very foundations of European solidarity. Some observers, driven by different agendas, go even further and claim that it is the very existence of the European Union (EU), already weakened by the high-speed succession of crises over the last decade, which is at stake. While the EU domestic dimension of the crisis is in the spotlight, less ink has been spilled over the impact of such a crisis for its external relations, including those with its Southern Neighbourhood. Yet, there is little doubt that the coronavirus will be another litmus test for Euro-Mediterranean relations, which were already strained or at best on hold for a number of reasons, even before the crisis. Strained because of misunderstandings or irritants with specific countries over trade relations, political issues, human rights or the reform agenda. On hold because the new team in Brussels was waiting to stabilise relations with its interlocutors, sometimes new themselves, following political developments in some Middle East and North Africa countries. 2020 was going to be a landmark year for Euro-Mediterranean relations. Not only because
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