The cultivation of maize is the subject of controversy. It is one of the most cultivated plants in the world due to its nutritional and energetic properties. Co... Lire la suite...
The global drought is exacerbating food problems, increasing the prices of commodities like wheat, beef, and coffee. Conflict, inflation, and climate disruption... Lire la suite...
The Portuguese company Arborea is developing a commercial microalgae plant in Portugal – it will be operational in 2027 – using "biosolar foil" technology to pr... Lire la suite...
The One Health Global Microbiome Summit , held in Paris on June 20, 2025, aimed to integrate microbiomes into public health, animal, agricultural and environme... Lire la suite...
Scientists in New Zealand have discovered a low-cost method to reduce methane emissions from cow manure by using polyferric sulfate, reducing emissions by more ... Lire la suite...
The United States is looking for new markets for its agricultural products (soybeans, corn, wheat) because of the decrease in purchases by China, once a major c... Lire la suite...
Africa is the 5th largest sugar-producing region after Asia, South America, Europe and Central America. While global production is expected to decline in 2025, ... Lire la suite...
FAO's 2025 Global Fisheries Resources Report highlights the current state of marine fisheries, highlighting challenges and successes in sustainable management. ... Lire la suite...
Gaseous fermentation, a promising technology for producing protein without agricultural land, nevertheless faces challenges related to economic viability, sourc... Lire la suite...
Brazil is strengthening its agricultural cooperation with African countries by opening up new markets and promoting rural development initiatives. Brazil has op... Lire la suite...
Cotton futures fell after China cut its import forecast due to trade tensions with the United States. Despite the drop in prices, U.S. cotton is becoming more c... Lire la suite...
Life can persist in the most extreme environments on Earth and even in the stratosphere, where fungal and bacterial spores have been discovered. These spores, w... Lire la suite...
Global food prices declined in May, mainly due to lower prices for maize and palm oil. Bumper harvests in Brazil and Argentina, as well as record expectations f... Lire la suite...
The price of rice, a staple of the Japanese diet, has doubled in a year, threatening the country's political stability. Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi in... Lire la suite...
The United Nations Conference on the Oceans (UNOC3) opened in Nice on 9 June and ended on 13 June. It brings together United Nations Member States, specialized ... Lire la suite...
A scenario simulated by researchers shows that if global food trade stopped, only Guyana, a small country in South America, would be self-sufficient to meet all... Lire la suite...
Agricultural trade is accelerating biodiversity loss in tropical regions, with more than 90% of species lost due to land use for export. Researchers from TUM (T... Lire la suite...
In 2024, fires caused a record loss of primary tropical forests, reaching levels not seen in two decades. This destruction, mainly due to fires and agricultural... Lire la suite...
Will quantum computing become the new frontier of agricultural innovation? Quantum computing, with its principles of superposition and entanglement, goes beyond... Lire la suite...
EA Foods is a digital agricultural marketplace. It uses technology to connect African smallholder farmers to fair markets that provide them with better incomes.... Lire la suite...
As of 2025, the largest landowner in the United States is Red Emmerson. Red and his family own 2,440,000 acres (987,442 hectares) in California, Oregon and Wash... Lire la suite...
An FAO report, published in 2024, highlights the cost of healthy diets (CoHD) in Africa, revealing regional disparities and challenges in economic access to dec... Lire la suite...
Nice is preparing to host the third United Nations Ocean Conference in June 2025. The event is crucial to protect the oceans and sustainably manage fisheries re... Lire la suite...
The ecological footprint of livestock farming is no longer to be demonstrated. Is Africa concerned when its meat consumption is very low? According to FAO data,... Lire la suite...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched an Emergency Response and Early Recovery Plan (EERRP) 2025-2026, designed to help... Lire la suite...
Anthology leverages innovations in genomic, hardware, and computational biology engineering to accelerate genetic evolution and design custom genomes, expanding... Lire la suite...
Bayer is seeking a settlement for lawsuits related to the Roundup weedkiller from its U.S. subsidiary Monsonto. He envisages the bankruptcy of the latter if th... Lire la suite...
China is investing in infrastructure in South America to secure its agricultural imports, including by building an export terminal in Santos, Brazil. The port o... Lire la suite...
Foreign companies undervalue Africa's natural resources, in particular by paying derisory prices for carbon sequestration, described as "carbon grabbing" by Aki... Lire la suite...
Modern technologies allow farmers to use accurate crop, climate, and yield data to optimize production and land management. Agricultural data can become a valua... Lire la suite...
"More and more small dairy farms in the region are switching from pure pasture-based systems to commercial farms, increasing their reliance on formulated dairy ... Lire la suite...
Feed production reached 57.7 million tonnes in Africa in 2024, 7.2% higher than a year earlier and the world's largest year-on-year global growth according to t... Lire la suite...
Agrifoodtech investments in developing markets reached $3.7 billion in 2024, registering a remarkable 63% year-on-year increase in contrast to a 4% decline seen... Lire la suite...
According to the United Nations, the goal of eradicating hunger by 2030 is on hold, by which time the world is expected to have 532 million undernourished peopl... Lire la suite...
U.S. soybean and pork exports to China fell sharply. Pork purchases fell 72% on April 24 compared to the week of April 14. Analysts predict - due to China's can... Lire la suite...
Palm oil is experiencing a new boom in the global vegetable oil market. According to the analysis firm Platts, tropical oil is currently enjoying renewed intere... Lire la suite...
The latest FAO price index, published on 4 April, and covering the month of March 2025, indicates that global food prices are stable. It stood at 127.1 points, ... Lire la suite...
The African Union's ten-year strategy for increasing agribusiness production (2025-2036), often referred to as Agenda 2063, aims to transform agriculture in... Lire la suite...
The black scenario that predicted a collapse in global cocoa demand in 2025, due to the high prices recorded last year, will not happen. At least, not yet... Ac... Lire la suite...
Norwegian mining company Norge Mining has announced that it has discovered a colossal deposit of phosphate rock in southwestern Norway. The scale of this deposi... Lire la suite...
The American columnist Peter Coy published an analysis in the New York Times that sums up the inadequacies of sub-Saharan agriculture. Here is the substance. Af... Lire la suite...
U.S. farmers are facing a recession marked by declining incomes due to falling crop prices and rising costs. A multibillion-dollar bailout is underway to suppor... Lire la suite...
With 90% rain-fed agriculture, the Sahel countries are particularly exposed to the damage of drought. To improve their food sovereignty, these countries are acc... Lire la suite...
Sub-Saharan Africa's rice imports could reach a record high in the 2024-2025 season. According to the monthly report of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA),... Lire la suite...
A worrying new report reveals that the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) will further marginalize smallholder farmers, who produce more than 80% of t... Lire la suite...
Temperature variations due to climate change accelerate changes in biodiversity, making ecosystems more vulnerable. An international study, published in Nature ... Lire la suite...
Trade wars and tariff threats disrupt businesses and increase price volatility. China recently bought a large amount of Brazilian soybeans due to the trade war ... Lire la suite...
With 35 times fewer phosphate reserves than Morocco, Saudi Arabia aims to play a growing role in the global fertilizer industry, Since the price and supply shoc... Lire la suite...
A bold plan from Brazil aims to link the preservation of tropical forests to the performance of global financial markets. The country plans to launch at the COP... Lire la suite...
The tariffs on agricultural products are justified by Trump by the extent of the
The United States' agricultural trade deficit. Coffee and chocolate producers,... Lire la suite...
Grafting can increase cocoa yields while avoiding the expansion of agricultural production areas into tropical forests. This technique consists of grafting prod... Lire la suite...
Nine African countries have been working on improving access to financial services for small-scale agricultural and processing businesses through German coopera... Lire la suite...
In an interview with Le Figaro on March 21, Congolese entrepreneur and farmer George Arthur Forrest said that Africa, with its fertile land, abundant labor for... Lire la suite...
Food production in sub-Saharan Africa has increased six-fold since 1961, but this increase is due to a massive increase in inputs and inputs (fertilizers, land,... Lire la suite...
School meal programs feeding 418 million children have created about 4 million direct jobs worldwide. They also require massive amounts of food, promoting susta... Lire la suite...
Florida farmers are warning the U.S. government of the consequences of Donald Trump's planned mass deportations, pointing out that the deportation of undocument... Lire la suite...
Scientists are working to make rice more resilient to the impacts of climate change, including heat and drought. An international collaboration involving resear... Lire la suite...
Europe is seeking to replace imported Russian chemical fertilisers with by-products from local manure to reduce Moscow's revenues, promote a circular economy, r... Lire la suite...
North Africa is one of the regions in the world that will offer the most investment opportunities in commercial greenhouses in 2025. This is what a survey publi... Lire la suite...
North Africa remains the main importing region for Russian agri-food products, but more and more sub-Saharan African countries are increasing their supplies to ... Lire la suite...
A study published in The Lancet warns of the continued rise of obesity and overweight worldwide. If no action is taken, about 60% of adults and a third of child... Lire la suite...
About 300 groups representing the food and agriculture sectors have urged the Trump administration, via a letter to officials like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secret... Lire la suite...
The African continent is the region in the world with the highest growth in areas devoted to organic farming, with 24.4% more in 2023 compared to a global avera... Lire la suite...
The world sugar market could record a deficit of 4.8 million tonnes in 2024/2025, compared to a surplus of 1.3 million tonnes in the previous season. This was a... Lire la suite...
European food exporters are bracing for a potential impact of tariffs imposed by Donald Trump, which are aimed at favouring US agricultural producers. European ... Lire la suite...
Chinese tariffs on various U.S. agricultural products are now in effect, marking a new stage in the trade war between the U.S. and China. These measures, which ... Lire la suite...
North Africa is one of the regions in the world that will offer the most investment opportunities in commercial greenhouses in 2025. This is what the results of... Lire la suite...
The global cocoa market, marked by three years of deficit, could experience a surplus of 142,000 tons in the 2024/2025 season, according to the International Co... Lire la suite...
China enters the National People's Congress meeting with an economy that is showing signs of recovery, thanks in part to advances in artificial intelligence and... Lire la suite...
Regenerative forestry, including Continuous Cover Forestry (CCF), can sequester 20% more carbon than clear-cut forestry over a 20-year period, generating potent... Lire la suite...
Diversity in local and regional food production is positively associated with household dietary diversity in rural Africa. On average, farms produce 5.5 differe... Lire la suite...
Climate Central, an independent research group on climate change, published a report in April on the effects of climate change on cocoa cultivation in West Afr... Lire la suite...
Soil fertility in West Africa is a crucial issue for agricultural productivity and food security in the region. Challenges related to soil fertility management ... Lire la suite...
Europe is seeking to better protect its farmers from foreign competition to ensure food security in the face of geopolitical tensions and extreme weather events... Lire la suite...
The World Economic Forum has just published the Global Risks 2025 which warns of the risks that threaten the planet in the long term, such as extreme weather ev... Lire la suite...
The International Agricultural Show takes place in Paris from February 22 to March 2, 2025, with agricultural pride as its central theme. This event will bring ... Lire la suite...
Africa is struggling to reduce its costly dependence on rice imports. A group of West African countries has drawn up a $20 billion plan to improve rice producti... Lire la suite...
High egg prices in the U.S. due to shortages are driving demand for vegan substitutes like Just Egg, made from mung beans and canola oil. Companies are increasi... Lire la suite...
The European Commission is proposing to impose high tariffs on nitrogen fertilisers and some agricultural products from Russia and Belarus to reduce EU dependen... Lire la suite...
The Trump administration has announced tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico and China, aimed at curbing illegal immigration and drug trafficking. These tariff... Lire la suite...
The U.S. will continue to buy agricultural products to supply some of the poorest countries receiving U.S. aid, the Department of Agriculture announced. Purchas... Lire la suite...
Although overfishing depletes fish stocks in Africa's coastal fisheries, aquaculture has the potential to meet future demand if governments mobilize more invest... Lire la suite...
Global trade in agricultural products is dominated by large multinationals that have financial resources and logistics, storage, transport and processing infras... Lire la suite...
Greenhouse gas emissions associated with agri-food systems in Africa increased by 40% to 2.9 gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent (CO2eq) between 2000 and 2022. This is... Lire la suite...
Sustainable food products, such as sweet kelp beer and bread made from regenerative wheat, are being highlighted as part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Big... Lire la suite...
China is strengthening its ties with Brazil, a major agricultural player, through Cofco International Ltd—one of Asia’s largest agribusiness companies—which wil... Lire la suite...
On January 29, 2025, the European Commission proposed imposing prohibitive tariffs on certain Russian and Belarusian nitrogen fertilizers. This initiative aims ... Lire la suite...
The insect farming sector is facing significant financial challenges, with Ÿnsect and Agronutris, two French pioneers, exploring options to overcome their econo... Lire la suite...
A group of over 150 Nobel Prize laureates and World Food Prize recipients recently issued an urgent call for the development of revolutionary technologies to co... Lire la suite...
The Dutch judiciary has ordered the government to strengthen its efforts to reduce nitrogen pollution, threatening a €10 million fine following a legal complain... Lire la suite...
Brooke Rollins, chosen by Donald Trump for the position of Secretary of Agriculture, has pledged to support all energy sources, including biofuels, despite her ... Lire la suite...
Extreme weather, such as megadroughts, are worsening around the world due to climate change. These droughts, which last for several years, disrupt ecosystems, c... Lire la suite...
The election of Donald Trump and his promises of mass deportation of illegal migrants are raising concerns among American farmers, who depend on migrant labor. ... Lire la suite...
China is the engine of global soybean demand. The country, which depends on the international market for more than 80% of its consumption needs, could experienc... Lire la suite...
The year 2024 has seen contrasting dynamics in the world of commodities. While some have performed exceptionally well, others have had another year of decline.
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The African Union held an extraordinary summit on the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) from January 9 to 11, 2025, in Kampala, Uga... Lire la suite...
The severe food crisis in Sudan is exacerbated by armed conflict and extreme weather conditions. Millions of people are at risk of famine, with alarming forecas... Lire la suite...
In December, global food prices saw a significant decline, according to the United Nations report. In the same month, the FAO food price index fell by 1.9% comp... Lire la suite...
In general, La Niña tends to develop during colder, wetter winters in some areas, such as the northern United States. In other regions, such as Australia, it ca... Lire la suite...
Driverless agricultural machinery and robots represent a major breakthrough in modern agriculture. These technologies aim to improve the efficiency and sustaina... Lire la suite...
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