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Al Ain, 04/04 - احتياطيات مصر من القمح تكفيها لمدة 3 أشهر، ومن المتوقع زيادتها إلى 7 أشهر عقب حصاد المحصول المحلي في غضون أسبوعين 
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Olive Oil Times, 02/04 - The COVID-19 containment measures coupled with uncertainties among the transporters have been slowing down international trade and food supplies in Italy.
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Daily Star, 07/04 - Lebanon’s government is considering importing wheat for the first time since 2014, weighing its dwindling supply of dollars against concerns that the coronavirus may threaten the nation’s food security.
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Arte TV, 08/04/2020 - Nourrissante, bon marché et facile à cultiver, la lentille fait figure d’aliment providentiel. Cultivée aussi bien en Inde qu'en Éthiopie ou en Amérique du Nord, cette plante pourrait être un remède possible à la malnutrition.
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Cette période de crise du coronavirus est l'occasion de s'interroger sur la résilience de nos systèmes alimentaires. Pour aller plus loin dans cette réflexion, nous (voir la liste des initiateurs ci-dessous) souhaitons collecter de l’information « à chaud ».
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TSF, 02/04/2020 - Grupo de trabalho criado pelo Governo avaliou os riscos da pandemia para a agricultura portuguesa. Muitas empresas de vários setores têm a sobrevivência ameaçada. No milho temem-se "eventuais dificuldades nas importações para garantir o aprovisionamento das indústrias, quer para alimentação humana, quer animal, por perturbações nos mercados de origem tradicionais, ou nos transportes". No trigo, que Portugal tem produzido cada vez menos nos últimos anos, o grupo de trabalho sublinha que, "como é referido pelas confederações de agricultores, é bastante provável que a produção de cereais, principalmente os de primavera/verão venha a estar comprometida, reflexo de constrangimentos na obtenção de sementes e de fatores de produção"...
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Vida Rural Portugal, 31/03/2020 - Pode a agricultura recorrer a mão-de-obra disponível de atividades em paragem para fazer face às suas necessidades a médio prazo? João Pacheco, consultor especialista em questões europeias, revela que a questão da mão-de-obra sazonal é um problema muito sério. Desde logo porque uma parte da produção europeia estava dependente da vinda de trabalhadores de outros países, como a Bulgária, a Roménia ou a Polónia.
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World Grain, 31/03/2020 - As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps across the world, every step along the agriculture industry supply chain is stepping up to keep employees and consumers safe while still providing vital equipment, services, commodities, feed and food. The novel coronavirus that initiated in China near the end of 2019 has now spread to 199 countries with the number of new cases increasing hourly. As of March 31, more than 770,000 people had tested positive for the virus and more than 37,000 had died, while more than 160,000 . . .
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News18, 01/04/2020 - Thousands of farmers are worrying that the unprecedented labour shortage will make it tougher to get mechanical harvesters to fields or even pluck by hand crops expected to mature in mid-April. A severe shortage of labour, triggered by India's 21-day lockdown to rein in a coronavirus pandemic, will hobble harvesting of winter crops in the world's second largest producer of staple foodgrains such as wheat.
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European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM), March 2020 - The EU and Africa are each trying to find their place in an unstable world. This paper argues that the needs and expectations on both sides call for a new and more interest-driven partnership between the EU and Africa, one that does not brush over contention, but recognises diverging views and priorities, negotiates concrete solutions that work for both sides, and lays the foundations of a real political alliance in global affairs.
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Canergie, 02/04/2020 - A regular survey of experts on matters relating to Middle Eastern and North African politics and security. In parallel to the upward curve of infections from the new coronavirus, we should pay attention closely to the downward curve in oil prices. They have slid to unprecedented levels—in real terms to prices close to those before the pre-1973 oil shock. The regional effects of this could be devastating. Under such conditions, Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030, a plan to end the kingdom’s dependency on oil, is most probably going to be shelved, if not terminated. Saudi Arabia will see a huge budget deficit in six months and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s dreams will be shattered, followed by harsh adjustments. The prince will have to resort to more authoritarian practices to maintain his control. However, his inability to distribute revenues from the kingdom’s oil rents to absorb discontent means the risks of upheaval will increase. The slump in the oil market will also have a major impact on the political economy of the Middle East. With labor markets in the Gulf closed off, the expulsion of millions of workers from Egypt ...
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Terre-net 01/04/2020 - C'est peut être un poisson d'avril d'un bien mauvais goût. Mais les incertitudes liées à la disponibilité de nourriture peuvent déclencher une vague de restrictions à l'exportation », provoquant elle-même « une pénurie sur le marché mondial », déclarent dans un rare communiqué commun le Chinois Qu Dongyu, qui dirige l'Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO), l'Éthiopien Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, directeur-général de l'Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) et le Brésilien Roberto Azevedo, dirigeant de l'Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC). Pour les trois organisations multilatérales traitant de santé, alimentation et commerce mondiaux, il est « important » d'assurer les échanges commerciaux, « en particulier afin d'éviter des pénuries alimentaires », indique leur texte commun reçu à Paris. Dans la visée de cet avertissement, la Russie qui a annoncé vouloir limiter ses exportations.
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WTO news webpage - The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the global economy and world trade on an unprecedented scale. The flow of trade has been deeply impacted as production and consumption have been scaled back across the globe. One of the most effective means of addressing this crisis is through timely, accurate information. An informed public is better positioned to make sound decisions including on questions related to trade. This is why we have created this dedicated page on the WTO website. It will provide up-to-the minute trade-related information including relevant notifications by WTO members, the impact the virus has had on exports and imports and how WTO activities have been affected by the pandemic. Highlight: The G20 Declaration of March 30 highlighted their “commitment to notify the WTO of any trade related measures taken, all of which will enable global supply chains to continue to function in this crisis, while expediting the recovery that will follow”. ...
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The IFPRI Egypt Strategy Support Program (ESSP) is responding to the COVID-19 crisis by providing evidence-based information and analysis. As part of these efforts, IFPRI ESSP has launched the COVID-19 Food Policy Response Monitor for Egypt.
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AgriMaroc, 23/03 - L’OCP sillonne les régions et sensibilise les agriculteurs marocains face à la crise du Covid-19.
Ikram El Mesdadi's curator insight,
April 10, 2020 12:32 AM
Avec un PIB volatile de 13%, l’agriculture occupe une place incontournable au Maroc à ce fait, le groupe OCP s’est mobilisé dans plusieurs fermes du royaume pour sensibiliser les agriculteurs marocains et diffuser les différentes précautions à prendre.
Meryem EL BARHRASSI's curator insight,
April 11, 2020 2:57 PM
Conscient de la gravité de la crise du nouveau virus Covid-19, le Groupe OCP s’est engagé à mobiliser ses ressources financières et humaines, en coordination avec l’équipe « Al Moutmir ». Une très belle initiative pour endiguer la propagation de la pandémie dans le secteur agricole au Maroc.
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Courrier International, 06/04 - Dans de nombreux commerces, la semoule est impossible à trouver depuis plusieurs jours. La faute à la ruée des Algériens sur ce produit de base. Mais les autorités rassurent : il n’y a pas de risque de pénurie à long terme.
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McKinsey, March 2020 - The COVID-19 is not only an immense health crisis--it’s also an imminent restructuring of the global economy, but leaders can begin navigating beyond the coronavirus crisis. “For some organizations, near-term survival is the only agenda item. Others are peering through the fog of uncertainty, thinking about how to position themselves once the crisis has passed and things return to normal. The question is, ‘What will normal look like?’ While no one can say how long the crisis will last, what we find on the other side will not look like the normal of recent years.” These words were written 11 years ago, amid the last global financial crisis, by one of our former managing partners, Ian Davis. They ring true today but if anything, understate the reality the world is currently facing ...
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Terre-net, 06/04/2020 - Toujours pas d'amélioration en vue pour les conditions de culture du blé tendre selon FranceAgriMer, mais plutôt une dégradation. Seulement 62 % des cultures sont dans un état « bon à très bon », soit 22 points de moins qu'en 2019 à la même période. En mer Noire aussi, la sécheresse inquiète.
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Agronegocios PT, 29/03/2020 - Segundo o Boletim Mensal da Agricultura e Pescas de Março, do Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), prevê-se, pelo sétimo ano consecutivo, uma redução da área instalada destas culturas, sendo que o trigo duro, em termos relativos, terá a maior diminuição, registada em -15%, face à campanha anterior.
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World Grain, 01/04/2020 - In time, it is likely we will divide the past into two periods: before coronavirus and after coronavirus. At the start of April 2020, however, it is all about the here, which at this point is something of a dystopian nightmare. The spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) initially shut down huge areas of China through February and into March, killing thousands and shattering exports, imports and GDP growth. Since then, it has spread to most corners of the world. As economic growth forecasts are downgraded almost daily, increasingly it seems that if the world suffers ONLY a recession in 2020, we will have cause to be thankful. Most analysts expect everything to get worse before it gets better. As for the international trade in grains and soybeans, well, it is a mixed picture. Physical and future pricing has been highly volatile and currency markets have been in violent flux. Pressures on production and supply chains have been tightening due to social distancing and self-isolation measures. And, in many countries, governments are prioritizing domestic markets over exports as shoppers stockpile staple goods and borders are locked down . . .
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The Economist, 04/04/2020 - Epidemiological models are among their only guides. We have no choice,” said President Donald Trump on March 30th, after announcing that federal guidelines on social distancing would remain in force until the end of April. “Modelling…shows the peak in fatalities will not arrive for another two weeks. The same modelling also shows that, by very vigorously following these guidelines, we could save more than 1 million American lives.” Epidemiological models are not the only reason why many countries around the world, and many states in America, are now in some form of lockdown. That China, where the outbreak started, pursued such a policy with an abandon never seen before, and subsequently reported spectacular falls in the rate of new infections, is doubtless another reason. So are the grim scenes from countries where the spread of the virus was not interrupted early enough. By April 1st Italy had seen almost four times as many deaths as China.
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SWP Comment, n°10, March 2020 - The Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) came into force in May 2019. Ultimately the AfCFTA is designed to create a comprehensive African market; what is does at this stage is set in motion a set of complex and foreseeably very lengthy negotiations. The outcome of that process will not yet be full free trade in Africa, but it will bring about a reduction in tariffs with the potential to stimulate production and trade and boost regional value chains. It is, however, too early to be discussing modifying the European Union’s trade policy towards Africa, or for this to be an issue for the upcoming German Council Presidency. Nevertheless, Germany and the European Union should continue to follow and support the process of establishing the AfCFTA, which is an important political process with significant long-term economic potential for Africa.
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Policy Center for the New South, Feb. 2020 - 2020 is an important year for the international climate agenda despite a general loss of momentum and resurgence of the divide between traditional polluters, emerging polluters, and the most vulnerable countries. While African countries only contribute to 4% of global GHG emissions, their capacity to adapt to climate change’s devastating impact on societies, livelihoods, economies, and ecosystems is limited. This paper provides a synthesis of the existing literature and recent developments related to Africa’s position in international climate negotiations. It also provides policy recommendations for African countries to claim a stronger voice and ensure that their priorities (climate finance, technology transfer and capacity building) are better reflected in the international climate regime.
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WebManagerCenter, 01/04/2020 - La deuxième affaire qualifiée par les internautes d'"affaire de la mort" a été la découverte, le 29 mars 2020, par la douane de deux conteneurs remplis d ...
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Terre-net, 01/04/2020 - Pour limiter la hausse des prix intérieurs, la Russie a annoncé hier la vente d’un million de tonnes de blé de son stock de réserve. Une mesure de restriction des exports du pays est toujours à l'étude.
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