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  • Visegrad lobby makes food quality an EU issue

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2017/07/29 The European Commission offered on Thursday (27 July) to pay for member states' studies into an alleged practice that has been dubbed “dual food quality”. The leaders of several Central and Eastern European nations have complained that food and other consumer products, offered in their nations, are of inferior quality at the same time as compared to identical products in western European nations. In particular, the Visegrad group of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia, have been active in raising the political profile of the issue. On Thursday, they completed their goal, as EU commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker publicly rallied behind the Visegrad nations. “We know that in Slovakia, as in some other nations, this is a major issue,” he said next conference with Slovak prime minister Robert Fico in Brussels.

  • Morocco-EU Fisheries Agreement Respects International Law: Spanish Fishing Confederation

    CASABLANCA, 2017/05/28 The fisheries agreement between Morocco and the European Union (EU) “scrupulously respects international law,” said secretary general of the Spanish Fishing Confederation (CEPESCA), Javier Garat. The agreement, which includes specific provisions benefiting the local population, is legal and in full compliance with international law, he said during a TV program broadcast Saturday by Spain’s second state-owned television channel “La 2″.

  • Agriculture In Africa Soil wealth: Africa’s potential next growth frontier

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2015/12/02 Despite possessing all of the attributes for agriculture, the African continent continues to spend in the region of $50 billion a year importing food On the topic of agriculture and food production in Africa, experts are as quick to point out the cruel realities that currently prevail as they are the continent’s vast potential for the next. For example, Africans are much additional heavily involved in growing and harvesting their own food than people in other regions, from presently on on average they yield less and still rely heavily on imports. Additional than 70% of sub-Saharan Africans are farmers, compared to just 2% in the US. Although a lot of parts of Africa have crushing poverty rates, and on the whole it remains the poorest continent in the world, it spends up to $50 billion each year importing food from wealthier nations. Still, the growing and selling of food crops in Africa accounts for nearly half of the continent’s economic output and the continent possesses the major resources of unused fertile land in the world, making it an epicenter for the next and for innovations in farming worldwide.

  • Agriculture In Africa Soil wealth: Africa’s potential next growth frontier

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2015/12/02 Despite possessing all of the attributes for agriculture, the African continent continues to spend in the region of $50 billion a year importing food On the topic of agriculture and food production in Africa, experts are as quick to point out the cruel realities that currently prevail as they are the continent’s vast potential for the next. For example, Africans are much additional heavily involved in growing and harvesting their own food than people in other regions, from presently on on average they yield less and still rely heavily on imports. Additional than 70% of sub-Saharan Africans are farmers, compared to just 2% in the US. Although a lot of parts of Africa have crushing poverty rates, and on the whole it remains the poorest continent in the world, it spends up to $50 billion each year importing food from wealthier nations. Still, the growing and selling of food crops in Africa accounts for nearly half of the continent’s economic output and the continent possesses the major resources of unused fertile land in the world, making it an epicenter for the next and for innovations in farming worldwide.

  • Brussels, Rabat resolve problem of access to European market

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2014/06/26 The European Union (EU) and Morocco have reached an agreement on access to the European market of tomatoes and other fruits and vegetables from Morocco. The disagreement, which has caused a delay in the coming into force of the new fishing agreement concluded between Morocco and the European Union, has therefore ended. A statement from the European Commission issued to the press on Monday in Brussels says that the European Commissioner for Agriculture, Dacian Colos, and the Moroccan minister of Agriculture, Aziz Akhennouch, have finally agreed on the reform of the customs regulations of products out-of EU, aimed at making the system additional transparent and reducing the possibilities to avoid taxes for exporters.

  • Agrifood: Blue Sea Land trade fair in Sicily a success

    ITALY, 2013/10/15 The three-day Blue Sea Land trade equitable that ended yesterday in Sicily logged an average of 100 business meetings a day totaling 300 business-to-business contacts between 50 producers and 30 foreign buyers from Algeria, China, Libya, Jordan, the Maldives, Russia, Sweden, Tunisia, the UK and Yemen, organizers said Monday. Foreign buyers at the equitable taking place in the town of Mazara del Vallo perused Italian specialties such as pasta, oil, wine, distilled liquors, and preserves.

  • Macedonian Wine Rebranding Worries Producers

    MACEDONIA, 2013/08/04 Macedonian producers and experts expressed concerns that the rebranding idea, floated last week, could actually harm the country’s wine sales abroad. “We have invested years in building a brand out of Macedonian wines and presently it turns out that we should start our battle for world markets from scratch,” Georgi Bebedzakov, manager of the Anevski winery, told the Dnevnik daily. Marija Velkovska, a local wine expert, as well disagreed with the proposed change.

  • Harmonising food safety measures in African continent

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2013/03/18 Regional economic blocs of East African Community (EAC) and European Union (EU) have teamed up to fast-track the process of harmonising food safety measures in African continent. In order to make the process easier, the two regional blocs organised Africa’s forum on the matter, which is to kick-off today in the Rwandan capital, Kigali.
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