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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″.
  • Investors Need to Get Real About Climate Change

    WORLD, 2015/12/11 Try sleeping next a one-hour conversation with Kanayo Nwanze. The president of the UN’s International Fund for Agriculture Development is a perfectly affable guy, but his take on how climate change will lead to a fast-increasing number of violent uprisings and refugee crises that will dwarf Syria’s always leaves me decidedly unsettled. “It’s clear if we don’t recognize the signs before, if we don’t make those crucial links, again poverty, migration, hunger and conflict will continue to make headlines,” Nwanze said in Paris over the weekend. With major climate-change talks unfolding in Paris, he’s calling for “policies and investments that can pre-empt next crises.”
  • 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.
  • Norwegian salmon is safe to eat

    NORWAY, 2014/09/12 The Norwegian Seafood Council would like to reassure the public that Norwegian salmon is safe and healthy to eat. The Chinese Government has alerted a full stop in import of whole Norwegian salmon with result fromSeptember 10th 2014, due to concerns that a certain fish illness could affect Chinese aquaculture. The reason was at no time due to food safety or concerns for the consumers. There is no change in the safety or healthiness of Norwegian salmon. The ISA virus, which have been subject to some media attention inChina in recent days, is solely a fish illness, and cannot be transferred to humans. As well: Fish illnesses are not transferrable to humans or related to human sicknesses, on which there have been several misunderstandings in Chinese media over the last few days.
  • 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.
  • British Poultry man to take up international role

    UNITED KINGDOM, 2014/02/13 Peter Bradnock, former British Poultry Council (BPC) chief executive, has been named as the policy affairs consultant for the International Poultry Council (IPC). Bradnock was chosen from a number of candidates to assume the new part-time position. He will work on issues that concern the world poultry industry with international organisations like the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Codex Alimentarius Commission. At a recent conference in Geneva, the IPC Executive Committee recommended hiring a consultant to monitor policy issues.
  • Russia, Hong Kong and Angola were the major export destinations for pork from Brazil

    BRAZIL, 2014/02/13 Russia, Hong Kong and Angola were the major export destinations for pork from Brazil in January of this year, the president of the Brazilian Association of Industrial Pork Meat Production and Export (ABIPECS) said. According to Rui Eduardo Saldanha Vargas, in the initial month of the year Brazil exported 34,800 tons of pork, which was a year on year drop of 13.09 % and provided revenues of US$90.27 million. The president of ABIPECS said that Russia accounted for 34.56 % of foreign sales and for 41.36 % of revenues, followed by Hong Kong (26.48 % and 24.23 %) and Angola, with 11.61 % and 7.28 %, respectively.
  • 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.