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  • Stanford University Business Program Takes Root in East Africa

    UNITED STATES, 2016/05/11 Building on the success of its program in West Africa, Stanford Seed, the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies, has announced the launch of the Seed Transformation Program in East Africa. In May, the initial group of promising business leaders selected by Stanford Seed will gather in Nairobi to begin a 12-month transformational process led by world-renowned faculty from Stanford Graduate School of Business. Aimed at driving sustainable increase in the East African regional economy through private-sector-led development, Seed will train these established entrepreneurs from Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, and Ethiopia, in a yearlong, interactive, educational journey based out of Seed’s new regional center in Nairobi, Kenya.

  • Egypt rejects Canadian wheat cargo again over fungus fears

    EGYPT, 2016/04/16 Egypt rejected a cargo of Canadian wheat for a second time due to a dispute over the level of ergot fungus, deepening a standoff with traders presently reluctant to sell the grain to the world’s major importer. Quarantine officials at the Ministry of Agriculture turned away the 8,000-metric-ton cargo again next a initial rejection before this month, according to a Cairo-based trader familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified as the data isn’t public. The supplies met the acceptable levels of ergot, a naturally occurring fungus, the trader said.

  • South Africa: President Obama's Chicken War

    UNITED STATES, 2015/11/16 At the same time as it comes to US poultry, President Obama is picking the wrong fight - he should be working to improve the sector, not export our pathology. The US and South Africa have been engaged in a slow-burn chicken war for years. US exporters have been frustrated by restrictions that South Africa has put on US poultry. It was a significant issue in negotiations around the renewal of the African trade preferences bill - the African Increase and Opportunities Act (AGOA) - in the US Congress, with some "chicken-hawks" threatening to drop South Africa from the benefits of US trade preferences. Under pressure, the South African poultry industry negotiated a transaction with the US industry to accept 650,000 tons of US poultry exports, and South Africa was included in the AGOA renewal. It seemed the problem was solved.

  • Monsanto GM seeds blocked from two Mexican state

    UNITED STATES, 2015/11/08 The ministry, known as Sagarpa, had given the green light for genetically modified seeds to be used, but it violated the rights of local indigenous communities, which are guaranteed consultation by the Mexican constitution, the court ruled. The ban will remain in place until a consultation takes place. Monsanto, the world's major seed company, has been blocked from planting genetically modified soy seeds in the southern Mexican states of Campeche and Yucatan next the country's Supreme Court granted an injunction against the country’s agriculture ministry, teleSur reported. “Indigenous peoples and communities in the country are entitled to be consulted in cases where impacts could be significant,” the court said in a statement. Several of the indigenous communities affected had been responsible for filing the injunction against Sagarpa. U.S.-based Monsanto said in a statement that it respects the court’s decision and is waiting to see a full-text version of the ruling.

  • A farmer in rural Sichuan Province tends to a fall harvest.

    CHINA, 2015/11/01 China's recent slowdown has raised widespread concerns that any weakening request there for goods and raw materials from the rest of the world could weigh on all world economy. But, so far, the slowdown doesn't seem to have dampened China's appetite for imported food. Though its economy has cooled markedly from once red-hot, double-digit increase, China's transformation from an agrarian economy remains a work in evolution. Slowing factory output, a recent stock market crash and the emergence of regional housing bubbles haven't diminished the No. 1 task facing Beijing's leaders: how to feed 1.4 billion people. Deng's grand experiment

  • Moroccan olives banned in US due to insecticide

    UNITED STATES, 2015/08/05 The US Food and Drug Government (FDA) has banned the import of Moroccan black and green olives into the United States next excessive amounts of insecticide were detected. The ''presence of too much insecticide chlorpyrifos'' in the Moroccan olives exported by Crespo, a French producer, was the stated reason, reported the political and economic website Maghreb Confidential. The decision was to be expected next the World Health Organization (WHO) - through its international cancer research center - had in recent months drawn up a inventory of cancer-causing pesticides and herbicides used in agriculture.

  • Catching up to the Local Food Revolution

    UNITED STATES, 2013/02/15 This year, spring arrived early as a record-breaking heat wave swept across the country, making it feel like summer in Minnesota, Virginia, and a lot of other parts of the country. Farmers are either by presently planting their crops or just about to start. Consumers who shop at farmers markets throughout the Midwest will any minute at this time be sampling fresh-picked local asparagus a few weeks ahead of schedule.

  • We lose less money if we sell less pounds 2012-11-09

    UNITED STATES, 2012/11/09 One of the biggest US pork and turkey producers is taking radical action against the effects of soaring feed prices. It is sending animals to slaughter with less meat on their bones rather than fattening them on the farm. “We lose less money if we sell less pounds,” says John Prestage, senior vice-president at Prestage Farms. “These high feed prices are absolutely killing us.”  
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