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  • European Union supports agriculture in São Tomé and Príncipe

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2017/01/23 São Tomé and Príncipe and the European Union (EU) signed a cooperation agreement worth 6.7 million euros on Thursday in São Tomé to fund the development of agriculture in the archipelago, announced the European representative, Helmut Kulitz. The document, which is valid for four years, was signed by the São Tomé minister of Foreign Affairs and Communities, Urbino Botelho and Helmut Kulitz, who said the funding allocated would be used to implement agricultural projects, particularly in cocoa, coffee and pepper plantations.

  • German multinational, the Bosch Group, wants to help lift the quality and returns from Ethiopian coffee

    GERMANY, 2015/12/08 German multinational, the Bosch Group, wants to help lift the quality and returns from Ethiopian coffee by supplying better processing equipment and expertise. "We believe that technology is the best way that the coffee industry can move up the price chain in Ethiopia and compete globally. This is why the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) works with companies like Bosch to make this a reality," Vandan Rughani, the Managing Director of Bosch East Africa said last week in Addis Ababa. He was speaking at the initial International Coffee Processing and Packaging Round Table organised and paid for by the Group, specifically, Bosch Packaging Technology. According to a statement, participants came from UNIDO, several industrial and agricultural institutions, large business, small and medium business owners, farmers, civil society inclunding local and international aid agencies. Central to the talks was agreeing on a strategic bid to enhance food security.

  • FLEG summer camp brings together young foresters from 6 countries

    AZERBAIJAN, 2015/08/30 A summer camp will bring together young foresters from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine in Azerbaijan from 2-9 August in the framework of the EU-funded forestry programme FLEG II. The major goal of the camp is to foster cooperation and joint initiatives part the young foresters through meetings, excursions, field trips and research, inclunding leisure-time, according to Euro East.

  • French farmers block imports from Germany and Spain

    FRANCE, 2015/07/28 French farmers have been trying to block farm products coming in from Germany and Spain since Sunday evening (26 July) as part of a wider turmoil against falling prices. Farmers have used trucks to block six routes from Germany to prevent trucks with agricultural products coming in, French news agency AFP reported Monday. “We let the cars and everything that comes from France pass,” said Franck Sander a representative of a farmers' union, who noted that around one thousand farmers participated in the turmoil.

  • Cheap dairy imports after the EU scrapped milk quotas

    BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, 2015/05/04 Bosnian authorities are preparing a response to EU's Food and Veterinary Office, FVO, in which they will outline how they aim to meet conditions that would open up the EU market to Bosnia's dairy farmers. The EU market remains closed to Bosnia’s dairy farmers because the country does not meet EU hygienic standards has not harmonized all the relevant laws in this sector. Bosnia’s dairy industry lost one of its biggest markets at the same time as neighbouring Croatia joined the EU in July 2013.

  • Rift Valley Fever can lead to demands for livestock culls

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2014/02/13 The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has advised the European Union (EU) to launch a series of studies to help assess the risk of Rift Valley Fever being introduced to livestock and humans in north Africa and the Middle East, potentially threatening Europe. var media_image=\"/var/plain_site/storage/images/publications/food-beverage-nutrition/globalmeatnews.com/industry-markets/eu-warned-over-rift-valley-fever/8096725-1-eng-GB/EU-warned-over-Rift-Valley-Fever.jpg\"; Its recommendations come next the disease was noted spreading to a desert area in mid-northern Mauritania, sparking concerns it could leapfrog to the north African coast. An EFSA statement recommends that the shift within Mauritania be assessed, improving “monitoring, surveillance and reporting of the disease”. It as well wants studies on Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Lebanon and Syria to assess movements of livestock into these nations and the presence of mosquitoes that can spread this disease. This would include “detailed laboratory investigations”, inclunding studies of which animals mosquitoes like to bite and how likely carrier mosquitoes are likely to survive all year round. It noted that a lot of of these insect species as well lived in Europe. The analysis stressed that they could carry the disease into northern Europe, although Greece, Italy and Spain would be most at risk from a north Africa outbreak.D Danger to human health Rift Valley Fever can cause demands for livestock culls, because it often affects humans additional than animals. EFSA figures showed that there have 97 human cases in Mauritania in the completed six years, with just four animal cases. There were 747 human cases in Sudan and only one animal case. But there were 155 animal cases in Yemen and no human cases. Other nations suffering outbreaks since 2006 include Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa. The statement, by EFSA’s panel on animal health and welfare (AHAW) found: “The southern Mediterranean region provides favourable climatic (rain and temperature) and environmental conditions for the presence of the… [mosquito carriers], particularly in summer and autumn.” It added the disease could be introduced into north Africa and the Middle East by infected animals moving from east Africa or through the Arabian peninsula. Thence, “the disease would potentially spread along the coastal areas and the Nile delta, due to the density of livestock and presence…of mosquitoes that can transmit the virus.”

  • European Union pays Mauritania 67 million euros under fish treaty

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2014/01/11 The European Union (EU) has paid the Mauritanian government 67 million euros under a fisheries accord signed between the two parties in August 2012, the EU announced on Thursday in Nouakchott. The all represents EU's annual contribution under the fisheries protocol that will expire on 15 December 2014. Renewable each 2 years, the partnership agreement with EU gives Mauritania around 130 million euros against 80 million euros under previous accords.

  • Agriculture Committee Proposes Range Of Reforms For CAP Post 2013

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2013/06/28 EU member states and the European Parliament on Wednesday (26 June) agreed major changes to the bloc's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).  The transaction will determine how the €50 billion a year pot is divided part nations over the next 2014-2020 period. CAP - which eats up the biggest chunk of the EU budget - is meant to aid farmers throughout the EU, but has been criticised for the opaque way it distributes subsidies.

  • The European Union (EU) parliament rejects new fishing agreement with Mauritania

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2013/06/05  A new fishing agreement between the European Union (EU) and Mauritania has been rejected by the European Parliament Fishing Commission, official sources said on Monday. The European Union MPs say the new agreement would be very expensive for the EU and fishing boat owners, according to a statement issued by the European Parliament made available to the press in Brussels.

  • World Food Prices Decline For Third Month

    EUROPE, 2013/03/19 World food prices dropped for the third successive month in December, owing mainly to lower prices for cereals and oil-seeds, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Thursday.
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