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Le maché du soja plongé dans l’incertitude

La Chine est le moteur de la demande mondiale de soja. Le pays qui dépend à plus de 80 % du marché international pour ses besoins de consommation pourrait connaître cette.

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PART 1 : UN ECOLOGICAL APPROACH TO SOIL ANALYSIS

____ SOILS, A COMPLEX LIVING ECOSYSTEM ___ Part 1 UN ECOLOGICAL APPROACH TO SOIL ANALYSIS   Soil ecology is the study of the interactions among soil organisms, and between biotic.

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Part 2 : SOIL CONSERVATION

____ SOILS, A COMPLEX LIVING ECOSYSTEM ___ Part 2 SOIL CONSERVATION   The soil is a complex world where biotic elements interact with each other and with the abiotic elements.

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Land Grabbing Threatens Food Security

Land grabbing is not purely an African issue. Worldwide, arable land is gradually and discreetly acquired by large groups operating in the agri-food or cosmetic sectors. By investing in agricultural.

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L’Afrique est absente des marchés mondiaux des oléo-protéagineux

663 millions de tonnes d’oléo-protéagineux seraient produites dans le monde au cours de la campagne 2023-2024 selon l’USDA (Ministère de l’Agriculture américain). Mais l’Afrique, peuplée d’1,3 milliard d’habitants n’en récolte.

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Slight Increase Expected for Sugar Prices

Despite a nearly 7% price contraction, sugar prices are expected to remain stable or even experience a slight increase due to an anticipated decrease in production for the upcoming season,.

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Digital technology to help agriculture in the Sahel

Three young Malians recently won the Agri-Hackathon, a competition that took place last May and focused on the desertification of the Sahel. Soil degradation due to climate and overexploitation remains.

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The 3 C's - Conflict, Conflict, Climate - make food insecurity worse

Between conflict, health crisis and climate change, eradicating hunger is looking like a pipe dream. The multiplication of crises is dramatically increasing the number of hunger-related deaths. This number exceeds.

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Threats to insect farming

    Born in 2017, the project led by the Avignon-based start-up Biomimetic consists in optimizing the breeding of black soldier flies to produce fertilizers and animal feed. In a.

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Major Functions of Phosphorus in Plants

Phosphorus (P) deficiency represents a major mineral nutrient deficiency in agricultural soils affecting crop production. Plants absorb P mainly in the form of orthophosphate ions (i.e., H2PO4- and H2PO4-2); however,.

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Sahel, the African dream

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.

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