Faced with uncertainties surrounding the cotton sector, many producers are turning to soybean cultivation. Cotton production has declined by 66% over the past five years, despite the revitalization efforts by.
African countries have been hesitant to authorize GMOs. However, Rwanda took a step forward by announcing on July 13th a draft law authorizing the genetically modified organisms, their importation, commercialization,.
Egypt is one of the largest exporters of fertilizers in Africa, second only to Morocco. The Golden Triangle Economic Zone (GTEZ), which concentrates production, will expand under the impetus of.
Heavy rains, heatwaves, droughts... climate events are endangering agricultural yields, according to Philippe Lehrmann, an agronomy expert. He explains that even occasional phenomena can alter the development of plants with.
The second edition of the African Youth Summit on Biodiversity (AYSB2023) will be held at the Dawliz Hotel in Rabat from September 19 to 21, 2023.The event is supported by.
The recent fundraising of the startup Finres, amounting to 4.1 million euros, demonstrates the growing interest of investors in the agri-food sector. The agricultural transformation towards a system more suited.
In early July, African representatives traveled to Seoul to finalize the deployment arrangements for the K-Rice Belt program. This project, with a budget of $80 million, is expected to generate.
In May, the Casablanca-Settat Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Services (CCISCS) hosted entrepreneurs from Sub-Saharan Africa with the aim of fostering partnerships with their Moroccan counterparts. Representatives from Senegal, Ivory.
As part of its National Investment Plan for the Rural Sector, the government aims to transform the meat and milk sectors into pillars of economic development and ensure food security.
In 2014, African countries adopted the Malabo Declaration, named after the Guinean city where the meeting took place. This declaration applies to the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) and.
Bananas are appreciated for their nutritional value, but their peels can also be used to produce an interesting natural fertilizer for certain plants. Banana peel fertilizer is rich in potassium,.
The Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) has published its Economic Outlook Note concerning the countries of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). This West African organization,.
The expression and concept of "permaculture" originated in the 1970s, although the practice itself dates back much earlier. The principle is to maintain a living soil by promoting the presence.
The National Polytechnic Institute Félix HOUPHOUËT-BOIGNY (INPHB), a public higher education institution in Côte d'Ivoire, is launching its Digital Farming School. The Office Chérifien des Phosphates (OCP) is supporting the.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Programme alimentaire mondial (PAM) will collaborate on demining agricultural lands in Ukraine. They will leverage the expertise of.
In June of last year, a hundred individuals from the research, political, and civil society sectors gathered in Kisumu, Kenya, as part of AfriFOODlinks, a project aimed at transforming urban.
In Africa, many regions lack access to electricity. Malawian startup Yellow offers solar kits for rural areas in East Africa. The kit consists of a 6 to 10 W solar.
The interaction between climate, leaf greening levels, and wildfires impacts the future of the boreal forest and Canadian tundra. Wildfires play a crucial role in forest regeneration by stimulating the.
Après le départ de l’ancien président brésilien, Jair Bolsonaro, l’Europe espère enfin conclure un traité de libre-échange avec quatre pays sud-américains Les parlementaires français, soutenus par leurs homologues autrichiens, irlandais.
In late 2020, Singapore authorized the use of lab-grown chicken meat for the production of nuggets. Now, the United States is following suit by allowing the commercialization of this product,.
In the northwestern region of Senegal, horticulturists are facing an increase in the price of inputs: a 60% increase for urea and a 300% increase for NPK, a fertilizer composed.
Leaders, researchers, experts, and representatives of civil society gathered in early May in Aix-en-Provence to discuss the future of green hydrogen on a continent in the midst of industrialization and.
The African Development Bank (ADB) is launching the African Green Bank, an initiative supported by the African Green Finance Facility Fund (AG3F). The aim is to support efforts against climate.
Proposals to build a more reasoned agri-food chain are often associated with a risk of food insecurity for emerging countries or with deprivation for developed countries. Accompanying consumers and producers.
Established in 1980, Finnfund is a Finnish public investment fund that supports projects led by private institutions in developing countries. The company recently granted a $10 million loan to a.
Julien Lesage is a biochemist. He founded Hubcycle in 2016, a recycling startup that has just raised €3.5 million for its business of manufacturing cosmetic or food ingredients from waste, called.
CIRAD has studied the state of the cocoa sector, which is facing a multitude of challenges: climate change, deforestation, poverty, diseases... It is urgent to reform this sector to make.
The French dairy brand is interested in edible oil and vegetable proteins from the Pongamia tree (also known as Milletia Pinnata), processed by Terviva, a young American company. The tree.
FAO has recently joined forces with the International Bamboo and Rattan Organization (INBAR) to boost the cultivation and use of bamboo in Africa. More than a hundred members of the.
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is a subsidiary of the World Bank. Its capital is held by the 185 member countries. It finances and/or acquires stakes in private companies or.
The seashore is a few dozen kilometers away, but those are salmon swimming in a large saltwater pond in Saitama, a city of one million people located in the suburbs.
Gaïago, a biotechnology startup, has succeeded in raising 13 million euros to deploy its star product, a revitalizing biostimulant for soils. Already the inventor of Nutrigeo, an agrostimulant for cultivated.
Algeria is a large consumer of wheat, which it traditionally buys from France for 60% of its imports. The Russian commercial ambitions risk denting this historical partnership. Russia hopes to.
Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos have both decided to invest in the company Nature's Fynd, which is likely to go public soon. With Al Gore, they are among the main.
At the Feyzin refinery in southeastern France, a new kind of biofuel is produced from grape marc or lees. These are distilled, dehydrated and mixed with an ethanol derivative and.
The manufacture of cocaine has a strong impact on the environmental quality of natural areas. Its culture nibbles away at wooded areas. If a gram of cocaine costs on average.
Less meat, more fruit and vegetables, this is the objective of the Eurodeputies with their project to regulate the consumption of foodstuffs by a variable VAT according to the environmental.
On August 18, the European Union authorized the return of animal proteins and the introduction of insects in feed for pigs and poultry. This relaxation will reduce dependence on European.
Lindsay Matthews, a researcher at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, has conducted experimental work on cattle farms. Based on the observation that cattle urine and all farm waste.
Atlantic salmon accounts for 90% of the world's farmed salmon. Caught or farmed, it is produced at a rate of almost 40 kilos per second, according to Planetoscope. Cargill and.
The Indian government aims to reform Indian agriculture to make it more productive. To this end, it has signed a partnership with the three major American companies Amazon, Microsoft and.
Some farmers have decided to invest in social networks to share the daily life of a farm, to praise the new sustainable agriculture and to reassure consumers about the origin.
There is a great deal of work that highlights the impact of agriculture on biodiversity, at least on the surface. According to researchers from INRAE and CNRS, the methodologies used.
On September 16, the price of rapeseed for the production of rapeseed oil passed the €600 per ton mark, compared to €390 a year earlier. Several phenomena have caused this.
Researchers from the French institute INRAE are observing an experimental pesticide-free farm, called Domaine d'Epoisses, in the suburbs of Dijon, France. They are analyzing different combinations of crops and animal.
Land Matrix enters phase 3. This international program tracks the volume of land transactions. It is piloted by members from civil society, research and the professional sector. During the last.
After vegetable oils and sugar cane, wheat straw is a new alternative fuel to petroleum derivatives. Researchers, supported by the National Renewable Energy Center, are working to develop a sustainable.
The shortage of fertilizer is leading to a drop in production, which could further increase food prices, which have already risen by more than 30% in one year. This is.
Greeneye Technology, launches a new intelligent spraying equipment. A precision tool, garlic optimizes the use of chemical inputs in crops. The Israeli company plans to export its technology to North.
Rather than suffer from drought or other climatic vagaries, researchers at the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE) decided to learn from them with a.
Today, satellites observe 26 of the 56 climatic variables, hence the importance of their presence in understanding the phenomena that surround us. The Copernicus program is 20 years old. The.
Sustainable development issues often deal with terrestrial issues related to our direct environment such as soil, air or water resources, but there is also another element at risk: the ocean..
Since the summer of 2020, the price curve for cereals has been steadily rising. Various concomitant factors are at play: the Niña phenomenon, the pandemic, Chinese demand and Russian policy?.
A collective of academics is making its voice heard in front of the powerful meat lobby to put forward the interest of laboratory meat, an interesting sanitary and ecological path.
Chinese, Russians and Americans are gaining a foothold in Africa. They understood that this continent still has untapped potential. Africa has already welcomed a large number of investing countries, always.
Deforestation, urbanization and climatic accidents are making life difficult for farmers in northern Rwanda who are trying to exploit their land for beans, sweet potatoes or tea. Mudflows, floods and.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), poverty is on the rise. Women play a pillar role in social organization, between household, family and agricultural tasks. With the disappearance of.
Institutional and private investors have pledged some 12 billion euros over the next five years to restore a strip of African land stretching from Senegal to Djibouti. The One Planet.
It is not only people in big cities who dream of a different future. A revolution is taking place, driven by committed and militant individuals who believe in a possible.
Nitrogen use is increasing in sub-Saharan Africa relative to phosphate and potash, which would indicate progress in the "green revolution". This is the result of a report published by Argus.
By 2020/2021, North Africa could be the world's largest importer of wheat. This situation, unprecedented in the last three years, is linked in particular to the drop in production in.
The company Plenty Inc. specializing in fully robotized vertical indoor agriculture had a difficult start. The coronavirus crisis saved it. The fear of contamination by vegetables grown by humans made.
Members of the West African Fertilizer Association (Wafa) built up stocks in anticipation of supply chain disruptions due to Covid-19, and faster than in previous years. By mid-May, Burkina Faso,.
Climate change, aggravated by the disruption of supply chains and export restrictions, is driving up food prices and increasing the risk of food insecurity in 2020. Many import-dependent countries are.
According to the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC), world cotton stocks in 2019/2020 could reach a level not seen in five years. This is the result of a decline in.
The Council of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) has just allocated $176 million in funding for initiatives to adapt agriculture to climate change. In total, this funding will benefit 24.
By crowding animals in confined and unsanitary conditions for slaughter - mixing blood, viscera and excrement - slaughterhouses create an environment that is conducive to the multiplication of pathogens. Slaughterhouses.
According to the FAO, food products, which have been in decline for the past three months, fell by a further 3.4% in April. The decline is 10% compared to January..
Natural rubber is one of the major victims of the Covid-19 pandemic because of the fall in world automobile production, which is its main user for the manufacture of tyres..
European agrifood tech start-ups have raised $3.4 billion - for 419 financing operations - an increase of 70% compared to 2019. The year 2020 will be less rosy, judging by.
The World Bank has approved $500 million in response to the consequences of the locust invasion in Africa and the Middle East. This financial assistance includes low-interest loans and grants.
The stockpiling of bread and flour by worried consumers during this coronavirus crisis may have led people to believe that the world was running out of wheat. Export restrictions by.
Bananas are the symbol of globalisation. Trade in this fruit began 130 years ago. It generates an annual turnover of $25 billion. 20 million tons of bananas were exported in.
"Belgians are invited to eat more chips, in Britain farmers have poured millions of pints of milk into the ground instead of turning it into butter. In Iran, millions of.
The United Nations Nutrition Report 2020 warns of a likely doubling of hungry people as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. Their number would increase from 130 million to 265.
In 2019, Egypt consolidated for the second consecutive year its position as the world's leading exporter of oranges. According to data collected by Agribusiness Intelligence, the country's exports reached around.
The outbreak of the covide-19 epidemic in U.S. slaughterhouses resulted in the destruction of 7 million hogs during this quarter. That's nearly 500 million kilograms of meat lost. Some Minnesota.
McKinsey & Company identified in a new report - Agriculture and Climate Change: Reducing emissions through improved farming practices- 25 measures to reduce on-farm emissions that could abate 4.6 gigatons of carbon.
The International Grains Council (IGC) has lowered its estimate of world wheat production in 2020/2021. The world harvest would be reduced by 4 million tonnes to 764 million tonnes due.
In 2019/2020, the world coffee market is expected to record a slight surplus of 1.95 million bags compared to a deficit of 474,000 bags previously forecast by the International Coffee.
We know that soaring bread prices or food shortages cause revolutions. If the Covid-19 crisis has (still) caused only a few supply disruptions - without serious consequences because of the.
While many of their employees are victims of Covid-19, many slaughterhouses are closing their doors and the meat shelves of supermarkets remain desperately empty. One third of the pork and.
For the time being, the planet is not in danger of suffering from food shortages and agriculture from production crises. However, the protectionist measures taken by many States are raising.
"There is no reason to have a food price crisis like the one we had in 2007. (The world) has enough food available, it's just a logistical problem," said Maximo.
In response to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on agriculture and food, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will spend $15.5 billion in the initial phase to help farmers..
Agriculture is the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases after fossil fuels. Half of its environmental footprint is due to gas emissions from livestock farming. This state of affairs is.
The COVID-19 crisis will double the number of people suffering from a food crisis to 265 million, according to an estimate by the United Nations Food Programme (WFP). The 55.
Russia has announced a suspension of exports of wheat, barley, maize and rye until 1 July to protect its domestic market from shortages due to the coronavirus crisis. The export.
In Wisconsin and Ohio, farmers dump thousands of litres of fresh milk into lagoons and manure pits. A farmer in Idaho dug huge ditches to bury a million pounds of.
Global locust damage could cost $8.5 billion, according to the World Bank, if swift action is not taken to control the invasion. Currently, locust swarms have already affected 23 countries.
Containment and quarantine measures and border closures, by restricting the movement of bees, are likely to have an impact on global agricultural production. Indeed, farmers' crops depend on bees to.
The coronavirus crisis reveals one of the Gulf States' greatest vulnerabilities: they import 90% of their food while global food chains are disrupted. The beginning of Ramadan, a holiday during.
Having received nearly 500 entries from startups and academic R&D teams across the globe, applicants to the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP’s) Cultiv@te challenge have now been shortlisted down to 55..
Ukraine is one of the world’s top grain producers. The Eastern European country earned the nickname “Europe’s breadbasket.” Just how extensive Ukraine’s farmland is has only recently come to light,.
The coronavirus pandemic poses a real risk of food shortages on the world market, according to the FAO, WHO and WTO. The UN organisations fear a wave of stock retention.
Global coffee consumption is likely to fall considerably as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. This was estimated by the International Coffee Organization (ICO) in its March monthly review. According.
According to Rabobank, the coronavirus pandemic and the fall in oil prices have led to a 9% decrease in the prices of agricultural products in 30 days. Sugar has once.
Lockdowns and panic food buying due to the coronavirus pandemic could ignite world food inflation even though there are ample supplies of staple grains and oilseeds in key exporting nations,.
Some governments are moving to secure domestic food supplies during the conoravirus pandemic. Kazakhstan, one of the world’s biggest shippers of wheat flour, banned exports of that product Vietnam temporarily.
According to the International Grains Council (IGC), the global production of grains could reach 2.22 billion tonnes, i.e. a slight rise of 2% compared with last year. The production of.
Will Agri est un blog consacré à l’agriculture, plus précisément, comme on a coutume de dire aujourd’hui, à l’agriculture écologiquement intensive et inclusive.
Will Agri is a blog dedicated to agriculture, specifically focusing on what is now commonly referred to as ecologically intensive and inclusive agriculture.
