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December 12, 2019 5:09 AM
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TV5 Monde, 05/12/2019 - Sous une serre, de frêles plants d'acacias, d'arganiers et de caroubiers attendent d'être replantés en pleine terre: des essences choisies pour dépolluer et régénérer les sols épuisés, au Maroc comme dans une bonne partie de l'Afrique."Nous nous sommes orientés vers la réhabilitation des sols dégradés par l'érosion, l'exploitation minière ou salinisés, et dans l'adaptation de l'agriculture au manque d'eau et au changement climatique" explique Mohamed Elgharous, qui dirige cette ferme expérimentale liée à l'université Mohammed VI, à Benguérir, au Maroc. Le but est d'essayer de réparer les outrages des hommes ou ceux du climat --surexploitation du sous-sol, ou sécheresses et inondations à répétition--, afin de nourrir la population croissance du continent africain. "D'ici à 2050, l'Afrique pourrait connaître une baisse de ses rendements agricoles de 20%, alors que la population va doubler" selon le livre blanc de la coalition Adaptation de l'Agriculture Africaine au réchauffement climatique, qui réunit 36 des 54 ministres de l'agriculture africains.
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December 5, 2019 10:48 AM
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AMIS Market Monitor, 5 December 2019 - 2019 is drawing to a close, but market uncertainties are not. From escalating trade tensions to geopolitical risks, massive swine fever outbreaks and weather abnormalities, food markets have experienced more than their fair share of unpredictability this year. However, good supply conditions and strong fundamentals have spared the four AMIS crops from much disarray, also sustaining a cautiously optimistic market outlook for 2020. The Market Monitor tracks current and expected future trends in international food markets, including market and policy drivers, and detects conditions that warrant the attention of policy makers. The Market Monitor is a product of the Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS). It covers international markets for wheat, maize, rice and soybeans, giving a synopsis of major market developments and the policy and other market drivers behind them. The analysis is a collective assessment of the market situation and outlook by the ten international organizations and entities that form the AMIS Secretariat
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December 4, 2019 7:41 AM
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Algérie Eco, 26/11/2019 - La 3ème conférence sur le foncier en Afrique, organisée par la Banque africaine de développement (BAD), s’est ouverte, lundi 25 novembre 2019 et s’achèvera vendredi, à Abidjan. Elle est placée sous le thème : « Remporter la lutte contre la corruption dans le secteur foncier : option viable pour la transformation de l’Afrique ». Réunissant les experts, les chefs coutumiers, les organismes internationaux autour de pistes de solutions durables et réalistes, cette rencontre a appelé à une meilleure gestion foncière dans les pays africains, ainsi qu’à la mise en place de structures de gouvernance en matière foncière au niveau des différents pays africains et au partage équitable des terres entre hommes et femmes. Intervenant à cette occasion, le vice-président principal de la BAD, Charles Boamah, a fait savoir que « cette corruption prend de nombreuses formes, la corruption ou les transactions foncières illicites n’en sont qu’un exemple. Les promoteurs immobiliers et les spéculateurs ciblent spécifiquement les pays dotés de systèmes de gouvernance faibles. Les puissantes élites locales sont également plus susceptibles de manipuler de tels systèmes pour servir des objectifs restreints, qui ne profitent pas au public ». Tout en ajoutant que l’usage de technologies comme la Blockchain, dans le processus d’attribution des terres, pourrait réduire les risques de corruption.
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December 3, 2019 11:06 AM
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Promotion des systèmes alimentaires durables : L’expérience marocaine partagée avec les membres de l’OCI Le Maroc participe à la 35ème session du comité permanent pour la coopération économique et commerciale de l’Organisation de la coopération islamique (COMCEC) à Istanbul ce 27 et 28 Novembre.
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December 3, 2019 10:35 AM
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Le gouvernement Chahed a annoncé, en cette fin de mois de novembre 2019, la cession provisoire de 10.000 hectares de terres domaniales agricoles pour la mise en place d’unités coopératives de production agricole dans plusieurs gouvernorats.
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December 3, 2019 10:30 AM
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Les précipitations des mois d'octobre et de novembre derniers ont accéléré la cadence de l’activité agricole dans la Rabat-Salé et encouragé les agriculteurs à entamer précocement les travaux de labour et de semis, indique la Direction provinciale de l'agriculture de Rabat-Salé.
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December 3, 2019 10:22 AM
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Le Maroc et le Fonds international de développement agricole (FIDA) ont signé, mardi à Rome, un accord pour le lancement d’un nouveau projet de développement agricole d’une valeur de 82,6 millions d’euros (environ 900 millions de DH).
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December 3, 2019 10:17 AM
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Gro Intelligence, 20/11/2019 - South Africa’s corn crop is projected to bounce back this year, helped by favorable weather and an elevated corn price. After last year’s paltry crop due to drought, expectations are that the country will reclaim its role as breadbasket for southern Africa. Commercial area planted in corn is forecast to increase 9.5% compared with last year, according to the recent Intentions to Plant report from the Crop Estimates Committee, part of South Africa’s Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. That should lead to an estimated 1 million to 2 million tonnes of net corn exports in the marketing year starting next May, a normal level, compared with 412,000 tonnes of net exports in the current marketing year, according to Gro Intelligence estimates. Last year’s drought and lower available supply have kept corn prices high, motivating farmers to plant more this growing season. Yellow corn futures prices are 14% higher than a year ago on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange as of Oct. 31. Last January, South Africa imported corn for the first time in nearly two years. Since then 519,000 tonnes of yellow...
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December 3, 2019 6:12 AM
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Hellenic Shipping News, 23/11/2019 - Corn pre-harvest sales for 2019-20 in Argentina touched 12.6 million mt, the highest ever and almost three times the average pre-harvest sales in the last three years, data released by the country’s agriculture department showed Wednesday. Farmers are keen to sell their produce before the incoming government of President Alberto Fernandez raises taxes on agricultural exports, analysts said. To put the ailing Argentinian economy back on track, the newly elected government, set to take charge on December 10, may increase taxes on agricultural exports to bring in much-needed dollar revenue. Argentina currently taxes corn exports at about 7% based on Thursday’s exchange rates. As of last week, corn planting in Argentina totaled 2.8 million hectares, or 44.3% of the projected area of 6.4 million hectares (15.8 million acres) for the 2019-20 season, according to a report published by the Buenos Aires Grain Exchange.
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December 3, 2019 6:07 AM
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World Grain, 26/11/2019 — Ukraine’s grain exports in 2019-20 are up 36% to 23.1 million tonnes due to higher wheat and corn exports, Reuters reported, citing the ministry of economy and agriculture. Wheat exports totaled 12.9 million tonnes, up from 8.9 million tonnes a year ago. The nation also has exported 3.5 million tonnes of barley and 6.5 million tonnes of corn.
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December 3, 2019 5:46 AM
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Russia eyes new wheat export frontiers in challenge to EU, US
Agrimoney, 23/11/2019 - Russia, already the world’s leading wheat exporter, is bent on taking further market share from the European Union and United States with a new attempt to crack what have traditionally been its most difficult destinations. Successful marketing campaigns in Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Algeria would cement Russia’s leading position in the wheat markets of the Middle East and North Africa. Wheat traders said price is an increasingly decisive factor in securing export deals, with a challenging economic backdrop, caused in part by sliding oil prices. Cheaper oil is playing to Russia’s advantage in grain, keeping prices for Russian wheat relatively low in dollar terms due to lower fuel costs and a weaker local currency. "With crude oil prices remaining low, the Arab countries are asking themselves why they are paying millions of dollars more than they need to for wheat imports," a German trader said. "In a direct price fight, I would expect Russian wheat to take the main share of markets opened to them," the trader added.
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November 28, 2019 4:34 AM
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Agriculture Stratégies, 27/11/2019 - Alors qu’une nouvelle loi sur le foncier agricole a été annoncée par le Président Macron lors du dernier Salon de l’Agriculture, Agriculture Stratégies présente le 27 novembre lors du colloque « Partager et protéger la terre, Plaidoyer pour une nouvelle loi foncière » organisé à l’Assemblée Nationale un nouveau rapport « Réguler les marchés fonciers agricoles : les arguments économiques ». Plusieurs grands économistes ont mis en évidence que les terres agricoles comptent de nombreuses spécificités qui les éloignent de simples biens de consommation ou de facteurs de production quelconques (fertilité du sol construite, fixité en quantité et dans l’espace, support d’un faisceau de droits et d’ayants droit, imbriquées dans les rapports sociaux et politiques propres à chaque communauté). Ces spécificités doivent, selon eux, continuer de motiver des régulations propres aux marchés fonciers agricoles, dans un esprit de responsabilité. Alors que l’on observe les limites de la dérégulation des marchés fonciers partout en Europe, la politique foncière agricole française a été relativement épargnée. C’est pourquoi Agriculture Stratégies appelle maintenant à la consolider pour tenir compte de la part croissante des sociétés d’exploitation et assurer une meilleure articulation entre la politique foncière agricole et la PAC, qui ont toutes comme objectif de relever le défi du renouvellement des générations en agriculture..
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November 28, 2019 4:17 AM
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ROAC-WAGN (West African Grain Network), Bulletin October - During the month of October 2019, new cereal crops (rice, maize, millet, sorghum) began to appear on the cereal markets. This offer, coupled with the latest destocking made by grain operators and imports, has led to an increase in the supply of cereals in West Africa. As a result, prices began to fall in season, signalling the end of the lean season and, at the same time, the gradual start of the new cereals marketing season.
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December 10, 2019 7:02 AM
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IWYP is pleased to present the 2018/19 International Wheat Yield Partnership (IWYP) Annual Report, detailing the progress that has been made over the last 12 months. IWYP has continued to strengthen its abilities to fulfil its mission of providing the means to make major gains in wheat yield potential through discoveries and the provision of enhanced germplasm to both public and private breeding organizations around the world. The IWYP Science Program has expanded with additional research projects that strengthen our current research areas and bring in valuable new expertise from other geographies where wheat is an important commodity and where significant investments are made in the academic research arena. IWYP is currently comprised of over 50 scientific research institutions carrying out 38 research projects spread over 14 countries. Further, IWYP has also begun the expansion of its translational capabilities with two new pre-breeding Hubs, one in the US and one in the UK, planned to be operational in the first half of 2020. They will be supported and managed as public-private partnerships by 13 public sector and 9 private company investor/partners to accelerate the delivery of IWYP discoveries in elite winter wheat germplasm. These new Hubs will both complement and feed off the outputs of the main IWYP Hub for spring wheat at CIMMYT...
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December 4, 2019 7:50 AM
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Radio Canada, 30/11/2019 - Il existe une variété de maïs oubliée, haute de 5 mètres, poussant dans les coins reculés du Mexique et dont la particularité est de puiser sa nourriture dans l'air avec des racines aériennes! La découverte d'une telle plante, capable de se nourrir de l'azote de l'air pourrait être une révolution agricole. Imaginez si le maïs, la plante la plus cultivée dans le monde pouvait se passer d'engrais azotés...
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December 3, 2019 11:09 AM
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Terre-net Média, 27/11/2019 - Les pluies en France et dans le reste de l’Europe du Nord empêchent toujours la bonne avancée des semis d’hiver. La mer Noire souffre à l’inverse d’un climat sec et froid. Un climat humide perturbe la bonne avancée des semis d'hiver. La France continue de subir des pluies incessantes en cette fin de mois de novembre et les prévisions à sept jours ne montrent pour le moment aucune amélioration notable. Le reste de l’Europe du Nord est d’ailleurs lui-aussi soumis à un climat similaire. Les conditions de culture d’hiver commencent...
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December 3, 2019 10:58 AM
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The Hamilton Spectator, 03/12/2019 - Foul weather in the European Union is foiling efforts by Italy to protect its farmers by adopting country-of-origin labelling rules in 2017 to effectively limit imports. Italy, the world's largest pasta consumer, can't abandon the North American wheat used to make spaghetti and macaroni, after smaller plantings and foul weather curbed output in the EU. Exports of durum wheat by the U.S. and Canada are booming, foiling efforts by Italy to protect its farmers by adopting country-of-origin labelling rules in 2017, effectively lessening imports. EU production of the wheat variety for the season that began in July fell 10 per cent to 7.78 million tons, European Commission data show, triggering demand for North American supplies. Italian importers took advantage of U.S. and Canadian durum of "excellent quality" at "historically cheap values," Niccolo d'Andria, vice-president of the Rome-based grains group Associazione Nazionale Cerealisti, or Anacer, said in an email. A second round of imports may loom in April, he said. Exports of Canadian durum to Italy in the two months ended Sept. 30 almost tripled to 156,500 tons from a year earlier, according to the Canadian Grain Commission. Shipments from the U.S. in the nine months ended in September more than doubled to 210,000 tons, the most since 2015, U.S. Department of Agriculture data show. Output in Canada and the U.S. also declined as excessive rain hampered harvests. Farmers also reduced acreage for durum, which can be challenging to grow. Prices for durum stayed relatively low during the growing season, which contributed to Italy's demand...
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December 3, 2019 10:34 AM
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Les importations algériennes de céréales ont dépassé 2,11 milliards de dollar, durant les neuf premiers...
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December 3, 2019 10:25 AM
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Les cours du maïs ont terminé en hausse lundi alors que les chutes de neige empêchent les agriculteurs de moissonner les derniers champs. Les prix du blé et du soja ont, eux, reculé.
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December 3, 2019 10:21 AM
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Successful Farming, Agriculture.com, 18/11/2019 - Strategie Grains has lowered its estimate of the soft wheat area for next year's harvest in the European Union after heavy rain disrupted field work in western EU countries.In a monthly report, the French analyst firm pegged the EU's soft wheat area for 2020 at 23.7 million hectares, down about 200,000 hectares from its initial outlook in October and now below an estimated 23.8 million hectares harvested this year. "This reduction essentially stems from the wet weather delays to winter cereal drillings in the UK and to a lesser extent France, with farmers unable to plant in waterlogged fields," it said. In its first sowing outlook last month, Strategie Grains had projected a stable wheat area, a 3% decline for winter barley, a 4% drop in spring barley and a 2% increase for grain maize. Other analysts have also pointed to heavy rain in the past month as a risk to sowing of wheat and barley ahead of winter.
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December 3, 2019 10:13 AM
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Farm Online National, 19/11/2019 - China's investigation into alleged dumping by Australian barley exporters is set to continue until May. THE Australian barley export sector remains in limbo regarding sales to its most important trading partner in China after the Chinese government announced the extension of its investigation into alleged Australian dumping of barley into the Asian giant. The findings of the Chinese anti-dumping inquiry were supposed to be finalised by the end of the month, but instead the Chinese government has invoked a World Trade Organisation (WTO) clause that allows the investigation to be extended by a further six months on the initial 12 month study, with a final report now due out in May. Crucially, this means there will be no idea of a result in the months immediately following the Australian harvest when growers are looking to make their marketing decisions. Australia can still export to China but there is the potential for...
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December 3, 2019 6:08 AM
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World Grain, 27/11/2019 - I have resisted writing about impeachment, but that is becoming increasingly difficult to do. The impeachment “inquiry” process has gathered steam over U.S. President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, and the prospects of a House impeachment vote and a Senate trial have become more likely. Needless to say, that would consume the time and attention of Congress. Still, there is much non-impeachment news for agriculturalists to watch. Trade developments remain at the core of agriculture’s concerns. Among the most important are: the U.S.-China trade “truce”; . . .
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December 3, 2019 6:05 AM
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World Grain, 02/12/2019 - Up to 60% of current wheat-growing areas in the world could experience simultaneous, prolonged drought by the end of the century unless steps are taken to mitigate climate change, according to a study that appeared online Sept. 25 in Science Advances. In present-day weather patterns, severe drought simultaneously could affect up to 15% of wheat-growing areas, according to the study, which also listed strategies to reduce the impacts of water shortages on wheat production. The strategies included shifting the wheat growing season, implementing full or . . .
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November 29, 2019 8:07 AM
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Le monde, 28/11/2019 - Après des années de lutte, trois nouvelles lois encadrent les droits fonciers des tribus soulaliyates, garantissant davantage d’égalité. Les exploitants de ces terres collectives, appelées soulaliyates, n’en sont pas propriétaires. Elles sont sous la tutelle du ministère de l’intérieur, selon un décret de 1919 datant du protectorat français. Quand ces parcelles sont cédées par l’Etat, les ayants droit sont expulsés en contrepartie d’indemnités, dont les femmes – en butte à la tradition – ne peuvent souvent pas bénéficier. Achetées quelques euros le mètre carré, ces terres prennent énormément de valeur une fois construites. De plus en plus proches des grandes villes, elles attisent les convoitises des investisseurs et promoteurs, conduisant à l’expulsion de villages et tribus. Cet attrait ne cesse de croître alors que la côte de 150 kilomètres qui va de Kénitra à El Jadida, en passant par Casablanca, concentre environ 40 % de la population urbaine marocaine.
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November 28, 2019 4:24 AM
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CGIAR, Publication from the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health’s Food Systems for Healthier Diets research flagship - The researchers scoured almost two decades of scientific literature related to food systems. They settled on 20 indicators that are available to 97 countries from low-, middle- and high-income regions, and built a global map to rate the sustainability of food systems across the globe. The indicator can be used to track changes in sustainability over time and has the potential to guide policy and action as climate change, rising populations and increased demand for food place unprecedented pressure on global food systems.
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