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April 1, 2020 11:06 AM
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Le Directeur général de l’OMC, Roberto Azevêdo, et le Directeur général de l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture, Qu Dongyu, ont publié le 27 mars une déclaration conjointe invitant les gouvernements à réduire au minimum l’incidence des restrictions à la frontière liées à la COVID-19 sur le commerce des produits alimentaires. “Le moment est venu de faire preuve de solidarité, d’agir de manière responsable et d’adhérer à notre objectif commun de renforcer la sécurité alimentaire, d’améliorer la nutrition et ainsi que le bien-être général des populations du monde entier”, ont déclaré les deux Directeurs généraux. La déclaration conjointe est ...
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April 1, 2020 10:41 AM
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Port and Terminal, 26/03/2020 - A labor union representing Argentina's grain port workers has urged the gov't to suspend port operations for 15 days due to the coronavirus. Argentina is the No. 1 exporter of soy products and No. 3 in corn and soybeans. A move that would put upward pressure on world soy prices and hobble the country’s main source of revenue as it seeks to avoid default? The URGARA union, which represents inspectors who check the quality of grains before they are loaded onto ships, said the coronavirus pandemic was severe enough to justify suspending port activities in the world’s No. 1 exporter of soymeal livestock feed and No. 3 supplier of corn and raw soybeans ...
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April 1, 2020 10:27 AM
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World Grain, 28/03/2020 — Boosted by a 2% increase in planted area, global wheat production in 2020-21 is forecast to reach a record of 769 million tonnes, according to the International Grains Council (IGC). “Preliminary supply and demand projections for wheat in 2020-21 point to an all-time high for production and a further build-up of stocks, but with inventory growth again concentrated in China and India," the IGC said. In its monthly report released on Feb. 27, the IGC also increased its 2019-20 global wheat crop . . .
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April 1, 2020 10:15 AM
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S&P Global Platts, 27/03/2020 - The Russian government on Friday proposed a quota of 7 million mt for export of grains, comprising wheat, corn, barley and rye, for April to June in order to stabilize the domestic market.
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April 1, 2020 9:00 AM
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Business Recorder, 30/03/2020 - The economy ministry said it would control wheat export shipments, sell flour in the domestic market and agree with traders a maximum volume of wheat to export. Ukraine has increased its grain exports by more than 20% to around 45.4 Mt for the 2019/20 July-June season. Ukraine's biggest grain traders agreed on Monday to an economy ministry proposal to limit wheat exports to 20.2 million tonnes in the 2019/20 season to avoid a rise in domestic bread prices. Although Ukraine is a major grain exporter and its harvest largely exceeds domestic consumption, the coronavirus pandemic has led some countries to consider feed export restrictions. Ukrainian bakers and millers last week asked the government to limit exports of grain and related products to maintain bread prices in the event of the coronavirus spreading.
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April 1, 2020 4:11 AM
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L'Opinion, 31/03/2020 - La mondialisation alimentaire engendre des dépendances, mais elle est aussi une réponse aux attentes des consommateurs et aux besoins de sécurité dans le monde. Nombre de pays n’ont pas les capacités de satisfaire leur demande nationale avec les seules productions domestiques
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March 31, 2020 9:49 AM
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France Culture, 30/03/2020 - L'agriculture a toujours eu recours aux migrations saisonnières pour ses besoins en main-d'œuvre, mais la spécialisation des productions a accentué ce phénomène. De française, cette main-d'œuvre est passée à majoritairement étrangère : une situation révélée par la crise du coronavirus.
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March 31, 2020 9:40 AM
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CUTS INTERNATIONAL, GENEVA - The year 2020 will mark almost 20 years of arduous negotiations on agriculture since the launching of the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations. For a variety of reasons, the protracted and intense negotiations that ensued during these first two decades of the new millennium have attained little in terms of substantive tangible negotiated outcomes in agriculture as in other sectors.
With negotiations continuing unabated at the Committee on Agriculture Special Session (CoA-SS), a renewed effort has been made in recent years with a large number of technical papers being submitted, based on factual analyses of Member-notified domestic support data, with a focus increasingly on the individual components of such support. These analyses confirmed amply the particularities of the agricultural sector in the economies of different countries and highlighted the challenges and sensitivities in reforming further the sector and what compromises this may entail, notwithstanding the expectations of the DDA and the built-in agenda of Article 20 of the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA).
At the WTO, many members have stressed the differentiated trade distorting effects of product-specific and non-product specific support measures, and have insisted that real reform in domestic support would come only if product-specific support is effectively curtailed. This paper summarises ...
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March 30, 2020 10:33 AM
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Afrik21/26/03/2020 - Un récent rapport de la Commission économique des Nations unies (ONU) pour l’Afrique prévoit une année maigre en ressources hydriques au Maroc. Face à la menace, le gouvernement marocain débloque 12 milliards de dollars, soit plus de 118 milliards de dirhams marocains pour des projets d’eau dans le pays.
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March 30, 2020 10:19 AM
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Yawatani, 29/03/2020 - Un stock abondant de céréales est disponible dans les marchés nationaux du royaume. C’est ce qu’a déclaré le ministère de l’Industrie, du commerce, de l’économie verte et numérique. Cette déclaration a été faite, au cours d’une réunion de coordination, en présence du ministre Moulay Hafid Elalamy et la Fédération nationale de la minoterie. Au cours de cette réunion qui avait pour objectif de suivre l’état d’approvisionnement des marchés marocains en farine, un accent particulier a été mis sur l’augmentation des capacités de production de la farine des minoteries afin d’assurer la couverture des besoins de consommation de toutes les familles
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March 30, 2020 9:21 AM
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March 26, 2020 8:14 AM
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Algérie Eco, 24/03/2020 - Les locaux commerciaux et les grandes surfaces d'alimentation enregistrent un manque d’approvisionnement en semoule (blé dur) et en farine (blé tendre), en raison de la grande affluence des citoyens, enregistrée ces derniers jours, sur ces deux produits, au moment où les services du ministère de l’Agriculture insistent sur la disponibilité de stocks suffisants.
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March 26, 2020 8:08 AM
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Daily News Egypt, 25/03/2020 - COVID-19 - Retail trade, tourism, are likely to be hit the hardest, says report. Governments across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have taken amongst the most draconian steps globally to contain the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Yet, there will be much more economic damage than expected, Capital Economics said in its MENA economics update’ report released on Tuesday ...
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April 1, 2020 10:49 AM
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FAO policy brief, 29/03/2020 - As the COVID-19 pandemic turns into a global crisis, countries are taking measures to contain
the pandemic.
Supermarket shelves remain stocked for now. But a protracted pandemic crisis could quickly put a strain on the food supply chains, which is a complex web of interactions involving farmers, agricultural inputs, processing plants, shipping, retailers and more. The shipping industry is already reporting slowdowns because of port closures, and logistics hurdles could disrupt the supply chains in the coming weeks.
This policy brief provides recommendations on measures to consider in order to keep the supply chain alive in these times of crisis.
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April 1, 2020 10:35 AM
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Times of India, 24/03/2020 - With Punjab and Haryana fighting to stop spread of novel coronavirus with lockdowns and curfew, the two states — collectively known as food basket of India — have to make arrangements for procurement of rabi (w ..
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April 1, 2020 10:20 AM
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AGWeek, 28/03/2020 - The grains are trying to divorce themselves from the coronavirus concerns and concentrate on recent demand spikes. Technical buying stepped in to help push the grains higher the fourth week of March. Strong export demand as confirmation of Chinese purchases helped to give the market strength. Could this be the start of the phase one purchases, or is the buying tied to the reports of shipping issues in South America? Ports in Argentina are closed because of coronavirus issues while Brazil’s ports are not running at full speed because of logistical problems, not only due to reduced labor force but also due to the slowdown in grain movement. South America’s problems are turning out to be U.S.’s gain as importers of corn and soybeans are likely going to have to come to the U.S. to get their needs met. And with the recent sell off in the U.S. grains, they should be anyway. The sharp increase in the dollar has offset some of the price reduction, but even the U.S. dollar is under pressure to help encourage buying of U.S. products. The increase in exports has helped to push May-Chicago wheat 91 cents from its recent low. May soybeans have improved 75 cents. The disappointing corn market has only seen 18 cent gains from its low ...
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April 1, 2020 10:09 AM
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Worlds top exports, 26/03/2020 - Global sales from corn exports by country totaled US$ 33.9 billion in 2018. Also known as maize, the value of exported corn rose by an average 2.3% for all exporting countries since 2014 when corn s…
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April 1, 2020 8:50 AM
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APK-Inform Agency, 30/03/2020 - The Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan officially confirmed its cancelling of the ban on the exports of wheat flour from the country, and imposition of restrictions on the exports of wheat, reported the press-service of the Ministry, on March 30. According to the announcement, in order to meet the country's domestic needs for grains (including to keep the volumes of animal feed and processing rates by the food industry) in the period of the state of emergency, the Ministry of Agriculture will impose the restrictions on wheat exports in the nearest future. At the same time, the Ministry will cancel the ban on the exports of flour with the similar imposition of restrictions on its exports. In particular, the authorities will realize the exports of wheat and flour within frames of the monthly quotas established by the Ministry of Agriculture. The website of the Ministry will publish the distribution mechanism and the quotas volumes at a later date. According to the sources of APK-Inform Agency, the Kazakh authorities will impose the quotas for foreign shipments since April 2020, including the monthly quotas for wheat at 200 thousand tonnes (kt), and flour 70 kt.
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March 31, 2020 10:11 AM
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Eddy Fougier (sur WikiAgri), 27/03/2020 - La crise issue du coronavirus est si évolutive qu'il faut se garder de conclusions hâtives. Néanmoins, on constate des tendances dans l'évolution des rapports entre la société et l'agriculture. Voici ces tendances. L’actuelle épidémie de Covid-19 est inédite par plusieurs aspects. Il s’agit à l’évidence d’une crise majeure comme l’on en connaît une tous les dix ans environ depuis le début des années 1970. C'est une crise multiforme qui conduira notamment à une récession globale et des pénuries (y.c. alimentaires). Les conséquences seront nombreuses y compris sociales, avec un chamboulement des rapports entre citoyens/consommateurs et agriculteurs ...
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March 31, 2020 9:43 AM
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Olive Oil Times, 30/03/2020 - Greek olive oil remains in high demand among national consumers as the country's economic growth is predicted to grind to a halt. Greeks are buying more olive oil to stock their pantries, but the COVID-19 pandemic is predicted to obliterate the highly anticipated growth of the national economy.
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March 31, 2020 3:34 AM
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The past month has seen escalating concerns about the global spread of the coronavirus and increasing uncertainty about the longer-term implications for production and consumption. While some commodities have seen a sharp upturn in nearby demand, especially for rice and wheat-based foods, weakening economic conditions could dampen usage in the longer term, particularly for industrial products such as maize-based ethanol and starch. Although import buying of some commodities has accelerated in recent weeks, logistical challenges are being reported as movement constraints and quarantine measures become widespread. Transportation restrictions could also hamper the distribution of farm inputs and disrupt spring fieldwork, however, at this stage, the Council assumes that planting intentions will be fulfilled. Nevertheless, the Council's projections for supply and demand are tentative until the progress and duration of the pandemic become clearer
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March 30, 2020 10:23 AM
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AgriMaroc, 28/03/2020 - Le Maroc suspendra à partir du 1er avril les droits d'importation sur le blé dur, les lentilles, les pois chiches, les fèves et haricots communs secs. L’adoption de ces projets de décret vise à garantir l’approvisionnement régulier et suffisant de ces légumineuses sur le marché national à des prix raisonnables, notamment avec l’approche du mois de Ramadan, indique un communiqué, le porte-parole du gouvernement, publié à l’issue du Conseil. Cette mesure permettra également d’assurer la stabilité des prix de ces légumineuses sur le marché local, compte tenu du risque d’une possible baisse de la production nationale pour l’année 2020 et de la conjoncture économique internationale liée à la pandémie de Covid-19, ajoute le communiqué.
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March 30, 2020 9:46 AM
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Au cours de ce mois de Février 2020, les mises en marché de nouvelles récoltes de céréales se sont poursuivies et ont permis de stabiliser voir baisser les prix sur certains marchés. Au même moment des hausses de prix consécutives au stockage spéculatif opéré par les acteurs en prélude aux achats étatiques et à la période de soudure ont été même notées sur plusieurs marchés de maïs des pays africains. Sur les marchés de riz et de maïs où ...
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March 30, 2020 9:04 AM
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Avis d'expert : Ecomnews Med a pu interviewer à Marseille Myriam Ben Saad, Économiste, Chercheur et membre du Femise sur les conséquences du coronavirus et la crise sanitaire sur les pays de la Méditerranée. Elle est pessimiste.
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March 26, 2020 8:10 AM
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L'Economiste Maroc, 25/03/2020 - Crise sanitaire, tsunami économique, contre-performance de la campagne agricole, stress hydrique… Sauf surprise, 2020 sera finalement «annus horribilis». Une analyse de l’ONG Tizi Paris estime à 4 millions le nombre d’emplois en danger, soit 30 à 40% de l’emploi total qui est menacé surtout en milieu urbain. Loin d’être alarmistes, les analystes de l’ONG appellent à la résilience et à la mobilisation générale pour limiter les dégâts et anticiper la reprise. L’ONG vient de rendre public le PES (Pacte économique et solidaire). Il s’agit d’un document prospectif avec une série de mesures, de leviers, filets sociaux et scenarii pour faire face à la crise économique post-Covid-19 ...
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