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April 13, 2023 11:55 AM
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Reports on the world’s unfolding food crisis have revolved around the war in Ukraine and the blockade of Ukrainian grain exports. But the conflict is only the latest tipping point for a global food system already on the edge. Jennifer Kwao explains why the roots of the food crisis lie in the structures of the world economy. Only by addressing food insecurity as a systemic issue can the EU credibly respond.
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April 12, 2023 9:59 AM
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Après un hiver particulièrement sec, les pluies de mars ont redonné espoir aux agriculteurs mais les inquiétudes restent fortes. Autour de la Méditerranée, la situation est déjà préoccupante.
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April 12, 2023 9:59 AM
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Bien que doté d’une position géographique favorable à l’extrême nord-ouest de l’Afrique, profitant ainsi des perturbations abordant l’ouest de l’Europe, le Maroc reste un pays à climat essentiellement semi-aride à aride. Les régimes de précipitations sont dominés par une forte irrégularité dans l’espace et dans le temps, avec une alternance d’années très pluvieuses et de longues séquences de sécheresse sévère. Cette situation s’exacerbe avec le changement climatique, et l’on observe une tendance baissière des pluies et une extension de l’aridité.
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April 12, 2023 4:50 AM
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PARIS, April 10 (Reuters) - Morocco will offer this
month almost the same wheat import subsidy for Black Sea
shipments as for other origins, eroding an advantage held by
European Union supplies, a document published by state grain
agency ON... | Apr. 10
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April 12, 2023 4:44 AM
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Drought prior to planting, rainfall failing to materialise during growth, in the western countries of North Africa’s Maghreb region point to greater imports from northern suppliers...Read More
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April 12, 2023 4:41 AM
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Egypt, one of the world's largest wheat importers, has given notice it will withdraw at the end of June from a decades-old U.N. grains treaty, causing consternation among some other signatories to the convention.
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April 12, 2023 4:33 AM
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Brazilian farmers are expected to produce the highest volume of corn in history in spite of risks associated with planting delays in some areas, according to a Reuters poll on Monday. Brazil’s total corn production will reach 126.63 million tonnes in the 2022/2023 cycle, up 11.93% from the previous year, a poll including 12 analysts showed. The potential rise in Brazil’s total corn output will be driven by a 4.4% increase in planted area and the expectation of higher yields in the season, poll data showed. Forecasters said the outlook remains positive in spite of ongoing delays to plant the country’s second corn, which is sowed after soybeans are harvested in the same areas. Sowing second corn later means a higher risk of adverse weather events before the harvest. Brazil’s second corn represents 70%-75% of national output in a given year.
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April 12, 2023 4:30 AM
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Chinese wheat and corn arrivals accelerated in the first two months of 2023, reaching all-time highs for the period. This pressured purchases of other feed grains from the global market, resulting in slower imports of barley and sorghum.
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April 12, 2023 4:28 AM
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Smaller harvest, ongoing Russian invasion cause drop.
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April 11, 2023 11:00 AM
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North Africa is facing a severe drought. Recent data from the European satellite Copernicus reveal a severe drought in the Maghreb region, affecting countries of great importance such as Morocco and Algeria. The absence of the liquid element is a serious setback for the population of this area, especially for all those most closely linked to the agricultural sector, which is of great importance in this geographical area.
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April 11, 2023 10:59 AM
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The climate crisis is not an issue only one area of expertise can evaluate and prepare for, which means evaluating the issue'
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April 11, 2023 10:56 AM
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Violent conflict is a major cause of acute food crises. In 2021, at least 155 million people in 10 countries were severely food insecure and eight of those countries were experiencing armed conflict. On February 24, 2022, an armed conflict between Russian Federation (Russia) and Ukraine escalated. As Russia and Ukraine are major wheat exporters, this will aggravate the already precarious food security situation in many developing countries by disrupting wheat production and export and by accelerating price hikes in import-dependent developing countries. This study examines the potential impacts of this ongoing armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine on wheat price, consumption, and calorie intake from wheat. In doing so, it applies the conditional mixed process estimation procedure using information collected from 163 countries and territories for the years 2016–2019 from online database of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The study shows that, on average, a 1% decrease in the global wheat trade could increase the producers' price of wheat by 1.1%, and a 1% increase in the producers' price could reduce the yearly per capita wheat consumption by 0.59%, daily calorie intake by 0.54% and protein intake by ...
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April 11, 2023 10:52 AM
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Un récent rapport de l'OCDE alerte sur les déséquilibres en matière d'emplois et de compétences en agriculture. Celle-ci est confrontée à un double défi : accroître les volumes de production et la productivité du travail pour
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April 12, 2023 10:00 AM
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“Egypt is implementing mega agricultural land reclamation projects in Sinai, Upper Egypt, the New Delta, Toshka, and east of Oweinat in southwest Egypt, writes Gamal Essam El-Din. The state is in a race against time to increase cultivated areas and boost agricultural production,” President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi said on Sunday.
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April 12, 2023 9:59 AM
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La hausse des prix des matières premières agricoles et les pénuries récurrentes de produits alimentaires[1] ont mis en lumière la vulnérabilité de l’agriculture tunisienne aux aléas de la conjoncture mondiale. La pandémie de Covid-19[2] et la guerre en Ukraine[3] ont en effet été les puissants révélateurs d’une crise agricole qui menace la sécurité alimentaire du pays et la survie de larges fractions d’agriculteurs. Mais la crise actuelle renvoie à des causes structurelles liées aux stratégies de développement économique et agricole du pays.
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April 12, 2023 9:59 AM
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Portugal is removing VAT from the price of basic food items and increasing support for producers, to help consumers and manufacturers cope with the growing inflation and interest rates.
The government signed the deal with the Portuguese Association of Distribution Companies (APED), and the Confederation of Portuguese Farmers (CAP) to put the new measures into play.
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April 12, 2023 4:48 AM
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On Tuesday, April 11, the “grain corridor” was suspended due to the absence of inspections by the Joint Coordination Center (JCC), and Ukraine blames the situation on Russian sabotage. According to the JCC on its website, the last four inspections took place the day before, on April 10, on vessels that left the port of […]
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April 12, 2023 4:42 AM
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The U.S. said it is seeking formal consultations with Mexico over its agricultural biotechnology policies—a request officials said is aimed at Mexico’s import ban on genetically modified American corn and other crops.
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April 12, 2023 4:35 AM
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The natural climatic pattern of La Niña is over after three consecutive years. A naturally occurring climate pattern that brought upheaval to weather systems around the world has ended, meteorologists say. La Niña was in part responsible for record-breaking rain in Australia, active hurricane seasons, and drought in East Africa. A cooling of the Pacific Ocean, it has ended after three years. Now forecasters are watching to see if the warming El Niño pattern will develop later this year. La Niña is the phase of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) where waters in the Pacific Ocean are cooler than average, the opposite of the warmer El Niño phase.ENSO would normally transition from La Niña to El Niño every two to five years but in 2022, the waters cooled in the Pacific for a third consecutive year bringing a rare "triple-dip" La Nina. The most severe impact of this period of La Niña has been in eastern Australia, which saw severe flooding and record-breaking rainfall in 2022.
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April 12, 2023 4:31 AM
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The Black Sea Grain Initiative, a UN-brokered deal aimed at supplying markets with food and fertilizer amid global shortages and rising prices, exacerbated by the Ukraine war, was extended on Saturday, the day it was due to expire. |
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April 12, 2023 4:29 AM
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Recently markets have been reacting to updates from the Black Sea region, as well as Southern Hemisphere production. However, as we move towards harvest 2023, focus is turning to the development of Northern Hemisphere crops.
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April 11, 2023 11:00 AM
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A major UN report recently warned that water supplies around the world are at increasing risk from “vampiric overconsumption”.
Europe has been in drought since 2018, according to a recent study from the Graz University of Technology in Austria. Researchers say the water situation is now “very precarious”.
Countries across the continent have been struggling with water even through winter. Low rain and snowfall mean already dwindling supplies haven’t been restored during this typically wet period.
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April 11, 2023 11:00 AM
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L'Italie cultive 50% du riz produit dans l'UE. La superficie ensemencée en 2023 est la plus faible depuis 23 ans. L'humidité des sols n'est pas encore rétablie après la sécheresse de 2022. Des recherches en cours pour créer des variétés plus résistantes à la sécheresse.
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April 11, 2023 10:58 AM
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CAIRO — Life is no longer the same for cattle trader Bahaa Mahmud. When the Islamic holy month of Ramadan approached in the previous years, Mahmud put together large amounts of food in preparation for his charity iftars —the evening meal following a day of fasting from sunrise to sunset—.
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April 11, 2023 10:52 AM
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En analysant les données spatialisées sur les sécheresses entre 1901 et 2018, grâce à la théorie des réseaux complexes, des chercheurs américains ont mis en évidence les liens sous-jacents à ces épisodes en différents points
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