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Agribusiness / Food in Mauritius

  • Africa: How to Adapt to Beat Crippling Droughts

    BOTSWANA, 2017/07/17 Right presently, 14 million people across southern Africa face going hungry due to the prolonged drought brought on by the strongest El Niño in 50 years. South Africa will import half of its maize and in Zimbabwe as a lot of as 75 % of crops have been abandoned in the worst-hit areas. With extreme weather, such as failed rains, and drought projected to become additional likely as a result of climate change, some farmers are by presently taking matters into their own hands, and pro-actively diversifying the crops they grow.
  • Africa And Middle East Famines: How China Can Do More

    CHINA, 2017/07/09 The unprecedented outbreak of famine early this year in Africa and the Middle East can be traced to conflict as the root cause. Can China step in to help mitigate the calamity through its Belt and Road initiative? Famine broke out in South Sudan in March 2017. At around the same time, the United Nations announced that Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen were as well on the verge of being hit by long draught, putting around 20 million at risk of starvation. The UN described this as an unprecedented humanitarian crisis and appealed to the international community to donate US$4.4 billion — with little success.
  • Africa: Factbox-World's Major Famines of the Last 100 Years

    BOTSWANA, 2017/03/12 People are currently starving to death in four nations, and 20 million lives are at risk in the next six months The U.N. children's agency UNICEF said on Tuesday nearly 1.4 million children were at "imminent risk" of death in famines in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen. Famine was formally declared on Monday in parts of South Sudan, which has been mired in civil war since 2013. People are by presently starving to death in all four nations, and the World Food Programme says additional than 20 million lives are at risk in the next six months. The United Nations defines famine as at the same time as at least 20 % of households in an area face extreme food shortages, acute malnutrition rates exceed 30 %, and two or additional people per 10,000 are dying per day.
  • Mauritius appeals to EU abolishing sugar quotas

    MAURITIUS, 2014/02/14 Mauritian President Rajkeswur Purryag told European parliamentarians here Wednesday they should consider reviewing the decision to abolish sugar quotas as projections have indicated that sugar production in the EU will expand significantly and prices will fall by 2017. Speaking at the opening of the 11th Regional Conference (East African Region) of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA) conference in Port-Louis, Purryag expressed Mauritius’ concern as regards the conclusions of a study by the EU Commission published last December, while expressing appreciation for the support provided to ACP Sugar Supplying States in the context of the reform of the EU Common Agricultural Policy.
  • Mauritius’ IBL Invests $33.5m In Gabon’s Seafood

    MAURITIUS, 2013/02/09  Ireland Blyth Limited (IBL) was to invest in a new seafood business in Gabon, the Mauritian company said on Friday, as it reported a 20 % surge in prime-half profit. One of the major business groups in Mauritius attributed this performance the profitability of amount existing operations in the sector.