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  • Food inflation in India

    INDIA, 2011/03/26 Food access is probably the majority urgent political issue in India today. This is not surprising as the country has experienced of the majority sustained periods of food price hikes since the early 1970s, at the same time as it was associated with massive socio-political unrest.

  • legislation on the management of genetically modified (GMO)

    CHINA, 2011/02/15 China's National People's Congress, or parliament, is proposing legislation on the management of genetically modified (GMO) food, the official Xinhua news agency said in a statement seen on Monday. The legislation will cover the import and export of GMO food and production, development and research of GMO grains. China's Ministry of Environmental Protection is preparing a law on in general GMO safety, while parliament's agriculture and rural affairs committee is proposing a law specifically about GMO food, Xinhua said, without saying at the same time as it may become law.

  • Leads decline in world rural poverty (7/12/2010)

    CHINA, 2010/12/07 China has led a dramatic decline in rural poverty rates in a lot of parts of the world over the completed decade, a statement released on Monday by the UN's International Fund for Agricultural Development showed. The decline is mainly due to increased production and higher levels of private investment in the farming sector, inclunding increased urbanisation across the developing world, economists from the Rome-based IFAD said.

  • Current wheat harvest below last year’s record level (24/10/2010)

    AFGHANISTAN, 2010/10/24 Current wheat harvest below last year’s record level

  • Record cereals crops

    ASIA, 2010/10/07 In Asia, record cereals crops are anticipated in China and India. However, devastating floods damaged rice crops in Pakistan, while dry weather is adversely affecting prospects in Cambodia, and Lao People’s Democratic Republic. In Latin America and the Caribbean, a recovery in production from last year’s reduced level is anticipated.

  • Sugar Production Increases to Match Demand Next Year

    INDIA, 2010/09/05

  • Changing conditions for palm oil

    MALAYSIA, 2010/08/25 Malaysia’s palm oil industry may be able to reap the benefits of unfavourable weather around the globe that is cutting into harvest forecasts and pushing up prices, but the sector as well has to heed some storm warnings of its own if it is to maintain production in the long term. As the second-major palm oil producer and the world’s leading exporter – accounting for an average of 40% of world output – Malaysia is well placed to continue to play a major role in the edible oil market. That said, the sector is very much subject to the whims of nature, with weather conditions at home and around the globe often having a very real impact on production and price setting.

  • Grants 590 million yen to Mauritania to boost its food security

    JAPAN, 2010/08/10 Nouakchott (Mauritania) Japan has granted 590 million yen to Mauritania to buy rice in order to boost food security in the country, APA learns in the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott. The agreement was signed Tuesday in Nouakchott between the Minister of Economic Affairs and Development of Mauritania, Sidi Ould Tah, and the ambassador of Japan in the country, Hirochi Azima.
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