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  • Done Sensibly, Agricultural Development Can Reduce Poverty in Africa

    AFRICA, 2016/04/21 The recovery and acceleration of economic increase in sub-Saharan Africa since about 1995 has been widely recognised. But less is known about the extent to which this increase has led to improvements in welfare and poverty reduction in particular. In our recently published, open-access book, we attempt to provide a comprehensive assessment of increase and poverty on the sub-continent. We researched 16 detailed country case studies. Together, these represent nearly three-quarters of the people of sub-Saharan Africa. An significant message from ten of the nations we looked at is that there are potentially high returns to policies that take agriculture seriously. Nations that place a particular emphasis on upgrading the capabilities of small-scale farmers are additional likely to achieve broad-based development objectives. And failure to take agriculture seriously, particularly smallholder agriculture, will leave people behind. It will as well drive up food prices and imports, and dim increase prospects.
  • 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.
  • Egypt to ban rice exports amid hoarding

    EGYPT, 2016/04/04 Egypt will ban rice exports in its effort to end a surge in prices half driven by local traders hoarding the grain. The ban, effective April 4, will help “achieve stability in rice prices for consumers,” the ministry of trade said in an e-mailed statement on Thursday. The decree comes just days before the government’s grain purchaser seeks to buy rice in an international tender on Saturday. Even as Egypt produces a surplus of the grain, the country has been hit by local traders holding back supplies to try to push up prices.
  • Africa: Bees Can Help Boost Food Security of Two Billion Small Farmers At No Cost

    AFRICA, 2016/03/06 The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today highlighted the publication of a new study that quantifies, for the initial time, how much crop yields depend on the work of bees that unknowingly fertilize plants as they move from flower to flower. In doing so, the agency says bees may have a key role to play in improving the production of some two billion smallholder farmers worldwide and ensuring the food security and nutrition of the world's growing people.
  • Yes, Africa will feed itself within the next 15 years

    AFRICA, 2016/01/08 Africa will be able to feed itself in the next 15 years. That’s one of the large “bets on the next” that Bill and Melinda Gates have made in their foundation’s new annual letter. Helped by other breakthroughs in health, mobile banking and education, they argue that the lives of people in poor nations “will improve faster in the next 15 years than at any other time in history”. Their “bet” is good news for African agriculture: agronomy and its natural twin, agricultural extension, are back on the schedule. If Africa is to feed itself, the women and men who grow its crops need access to technical expertise on how to manage their variable natural resources and limited inputs and market intelligence on what to grow, what to sell and what to keep.
  • Positive signals for Egypt’s FMCG sector

    EGYPT, 2015/12/27 In a year marked by major acquisitions, Egypt’s food manufacturing industry is preparing for a round of new listings, as companies look to finance their expansion plans on the back of a additional favourable outlook. Major market moves Late September brought news that US-based food manufacturer Kellogg Company had acquired Egypt’s major cereal producer, family-owned Mass Food Group, in a transaction worth around $50m. Founded in 1996, Mass was the initial company to launch breakfast cereals in the Egyptian market and currently exports to additional than 30 nations around the world, with annual sales of $18m.
  • The acting Wali of North Darfur state the Agriculture Minister

    SUDAN, 2015/12/14 he acting Wali of North Darfur national the Agriculture Minister, Adam Mohamed Hamid Al-Nahla, asserted that the lives and properties of the citizens are red line that the government will not allow anyone to harm or make compromises over them. During his conference with the traditional miners who were assaulted by Menawi movement in the desert Al-Nahla noted that the cease fire decisions doesn't mean the national letting its citizens being assaulted, declaring that the government would respond to what happened at the right time. He criticized some of the organizations which he said they weight with double standards and some media organs that operate secretly and claims the protection of human rights.
  • Sudan is now recognized as an important center of agriculture for the region

    SUDAN, 2015/11/10 With only 20% of arable land farmed, Sudan’s agricultural potential could transform food security across Africa and the Arab World Owing to the immense irrigational ability of the River Nile – the lifeblood which pulses through the heart of the country’s otherwise desert covered lands – Sudan has long been considered as a potential breadbasket for Africa and the Arab world, where food security is a growing problem.
  • Tunisia World's Top Olive Oil Exporter

    TUNISIA, 2015/10/10 Tunisia was the world's top olive oil exporter in the 2014/2015 campaign, overtaking Spain. Tunisian olive oil exports reached 299,300 tonnes this season, generating record revenues of 1,902 million Tunisian dinars (MTD), according to recent statistics (September 2015) of the Ministry of Industry, Mining and Energy.
  • Egypt is banning rice exports starting in September

    EGYPT, 2015/08/30 Egypt's ministry of trade and industry will ban the export of all types of rice starting Sept. 1, a ministry official said on Thursday. The ministry is from presently on to decide on the duration of the ban, said Sayed Abu Qomsan, a deputy for the minister. The ban reverses an before decision issued last October which allowed the export of Egyptian medium-grain rice with a 2,000 Egyptian-pound ($279.72) tariff per tonne, payable to the government. Export licenses granted next the 2014 decision remain valid, despite the recent ban.