Grain supplies in the Mediterranean basin severely compromised
Grain trade for the 2022-2023 season is already estimated at 407 Mt by the ICC. The export capacities of the world's major cereal exporting countries will bar... Lire la suite...
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The War in the Ukraine and food security in Africa
By: Noureddine Radouai
There is no good time to launch a war. Armed conflicts are always horrible at any time. However, the war in Ukraine broke out in the w... Lire la suite...
Danone bets on the virtues of the tree
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... Lire la suite...
Bamboo’s success in Africa
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 h... Lire la suite...
100 million to support OCP’s work in African agriculture
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 stak... Lire la suite...
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 ... Lire la suite...
Land-based salmon farming in Japan
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 s... Lire la suite...
Biostimulants to revitalize soils
Gaïago, a biotechnology startup, has succeeded in raising 13 million euros to deploy its star product, a revitalizing biostimulant for soils.
Already the inven... Lire la suite...
Russia to conquer the Algerian wheat market
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 histor... Lire la suite...
Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos bet on “plant meat
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 fin... Lire la suite...
The animal industry faces the challenge of alternative meats
Since the 1970s, vegetarians have tried to launch meat substitutes based on vegetable proteins. It is only in the last twenty years that innovative companies h... Lire la suite...
Biofuel takes over the 24 Hours of Le Mans racetrack
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 et... Lire la suite...
Cocaine promotes deforestation
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 c... Lire la suite...
Europe is thinking about a relevant taxation of foodstuffs.
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 a... Lire la suite...
Controlled return of animal feed with insect meal
On August 18, the European Union authorized the return of animal proteins and the introduction of insects in feed for pigs and poultry.
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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... Lire la suite...
Cows can learn to be clean
Lindsay Matthews, a researcher at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, has conducted experimental work on cattle farms.
Based on the observation that c... Lire la suite...
“Millenial Salmon”, for a more sustainable salmon.
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 Planeto... Lire la suite...
GAFA to the rescue of Indian agriculture
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 com... Lire la suite...
Farmers, the new influencers
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 ab... Lire la suite...
The utility of counter-analyses in research
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... Lire la suite...
Rapeseed price reaches a record level
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 ha... Lire la suite...
A farm to test the transition to pesticide-free agriculture
Researchers from the French institute INRAE are observing an experimental pesticide-free farm, called Domaine d'Epoisses, in the suburbs of Dijon, France.
Th... Lire la suite...
UNCERTAIN FUTURE FOR PALM OIL
Coveted or reviled, palm oil represents a quarter of all vegetable oils. The market for this oil must meet strong demand while overcoming numerous obstacles: L... Lire la suite...
CURBING LAND GRABBING BY FOREIGN STATES AND GROUPS
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 pro... Lire la suite...
Wheat straw, a new biofuel
After vegetable oils and sugar cane, wheat straw is a new alternative fuel to petroleum derivatives.
Researchers, supported by the National Renewable Energy Ce... Lire la suite...
Fertilizer prices under pressure
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... Lire la suite...
A smart pulverizer.
Greeneye Technology, launches a new intelligent spraying equipment. A precision tool, garlic optimizes the use of chemical inputs in crops.
The Israeli compa... Lire la suite...
Morocco, on the front line for green hydrogen
Green hydrogen is on everyone's mind regarding tomorrow's mobility, whether it is road, rail, air or sea travel. This energy is presented as an alternative to f... Lire la suite...
FAO IN SEARCH OF PARTNERSHIPS
FAO, whose resources come from about 40% of member states, is considering diversifying and increasing the volume of its resources through partnerships with the ... Lire la suite...
The SICLEX laboratory, simulates climates
Rather than suffer from drought or other climatic vagaries, researchers at the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INR... Lire la suite...
Sentinel Satellite Reads Our Future
Today, satellites observe 26 of the 56 climatic variables, hence the importance of their presence in understanding the phenomena that surround us.
The Copernic... Lire la suite...
Laboratory fish
Sustainable development issues often deal with terrestrial issues related to our direct environment such as soil, air or water resources, but there is also anot... Lire la suite...
The golden future of wheat, corn…and barley
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, Chin... Lire la suite...
Scientists to the rescue of laboratory meat
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 ... Lire la suite...
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... Lire la suite...
The Diaspora must bet on Africa
Chinese, Russians and Americans are gaining a foothold in Africa. They understood that this continent still has untapped potential. Africa has already welcomed ... Lire la suite...
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 ... Lire la suite...
Advocacy for a peaceful agricultural revolution
Michel Dron, secretary of the plant section at the French Academy of Agriculture, brings his thoughts on the need for a thoughtful agricultural transition, in c... Lire la suite...
Rwanda, African pioneer of the green transition
Deforestation, urbanization and climatic accidents are making life difficult for farmers in northern Rwanda who are trying to exploit their land for beans, swee... Lire la suite...
Startups are revolutionizing the agri-food industry
To strengthen their development strategies, players in the agri-food industry are now calling on startups. They finely identify consumer expectations and develo... Lire la suite...
Congolese peasant women ambassadors of organic agriculture
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 t... Lire la suite...
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 Dj... Lire la suite...
Emergence of a new peasantry in France
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... Lire la suite...
Nitrogen consumption increases in Sub-Saharan Africa
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 o... Lire la suite...
How to increase levels of organic matter in soil – a permanent challenge
In both conventional and organic farming, a high level of organic matter in the soil is one of the keys to achieving both environmental and financial performanc... Lire la suite...
North Africa, the world’s largest importer of wheat in 2020/2021
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... Lire la suite...
Fear of coronavirus benefits robotic agriculture
The company Plenty Inc. specializing in fully robotized vertical indoor agriculture had a difficult start. The coronavirus crisis saved it. The fear of contamin... Lire la suite...
West Africa won’t run out of fertilizers
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 previo... Lire la suite...
Big weather data boosts agricultural productivity
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 2... Lire la suite...
International agricultural trade
Responding to the needs of both buyers and sellers, international trade in agricultural products is age-old. Some distribution networks and routes are short-liv... Lire la suite...
Worrying increase in cotton stocks
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... Lire la suite...
GEF Funds Agricultural Resilience Projects in Africa
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... Lire la suite...
Coronavirus could kill the meat industry
By crowding animals in confined and unsanitary conditions for slaughter - mixing blood, viscera and excrement - slaughterhouses create an environment that is co... Lire la suite...
FAO food index down 3.4% in April
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 Janua... Lire la suite...
Agroecology at the heart of the bioeconomy
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The bioeconomy, at its most fundamental level, aims to generate value from photosynthesis. It seeks to transform biomass into a resource for ev... Lire la suite...
The rubber victim of the Coronavirus
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 manufactu... Lire la suite...
Record funding for European agri-tech in 2019
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,... Lire la suite...
500 million for countries affected by the locust invasion
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 include... Lire la suite...
The world is drowning in wheat stocks…
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. E... Lire la suite...
Threats to the banana
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 wer... Lire la suite...
Regenerative agriculture is profitable
Farms which sequester carbon perform better financially
Regenerative and ecological agriculture is based on two convictions:
That a massive transition t... Lire la suite...
The globalisation of agricultural trade in question
"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, mi... Lire la suite...
Coronavirus Crisis Worsens World Hunger
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 mi... Lire la suite...
Egypt still the world’s largest exporter of oranges
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... Lire la suite...
Composting of hogs in the United States
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 kilo... Lire la suite...
GENOTYPING CHIPS FOR WHEAT
We are not yet able to decode the full genomes for thousands of varieties of wheat. However, genotyping chips can provide a “genetic identity card” for these va... Lire la suite...
25 measures to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions
McKinsey & Company identified in a new report - Agriculture and Climate Change: Reducing emissions through improved farming practices- 25 measures to reduc... Lire la suite...
Slight decline in world wheat production
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 t... Lire la suite...
Coronavirus has not slowed down coffee consumption
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 t... Lire la suite...
Outburst of agricultural nationalism
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... Lire la suite...
Our planet is getting greener
A team of American, Norwegian and Chinese researchers has shown that CO2 emissions have contributed to an upsurge in vegetation growth since 1981. But is this n... Lire la suite...
One man’s happiness…
While many of their employees are victims of Covid-19, many slaughterhouses are closing their doors and the meat shelves of supermarkets remain desperately empt... Lire la suite...
Worse than the coronavirus, the drought…
For the time being, the planet is not in danger of suffering from food shortages and agriculture from production crises. However, the protectionist measures tak... Lire la suite...
A global food shortage is unlikely
"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... Lire la suite...
Billions rain down on agriculture
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 ph... Lire la suite...
In-ovo sexing
Across the world, wherever eggs are produced on an industrial scale, only the females are used. Males are destroyed, by gassing or grinding, at birth. France an... Lire la suite...
Masks: cows too
Agriculture is the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases after fossil fuels. Half of its environmental footprint is due to gas emissions from livestock far... Lire la suite...
Towards a worsening of the food crisis
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 ... Lire la suite...
Russia is putting a damper on the wheat market
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 c... Lire la suite...
Food production systems in West African towns and cities
There is no better place to get a sense of the bustling life of West African towns and cities than their major food markets. Nobody who has shopped in one of th... Lire la suite...
Massive destruction of food in the United States
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 ... Lire la suite...
Locusts threaten African agriculture
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 a... Lire la suite...
Lockdowns threatens crop pollination
Containment and quarantine measures and border closures, by restricting the movement of bees, are likely to have an impact on global agricultural production. In... Lire la suite...
Food vulnerability in the Gulf States
The coronavirus crisis reveals one of the Gulf States' greatest vulnerabilities: they import 90% of their food while global food chains are disrupted. The begin... Lire la suite...
UN Development Programme to measure tech with impact in agrifood
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) ... Lire la suite...
Biotech seeds and farmers’ seeds in Africa: the diversification route
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In December 2019, Kenya decided to authorise the commercialisation of transgenic cotton within the country. “This should help farmers... Lire la suite...
10.6 million acres of illegal farms in Ukraine
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 farmlan... Lire la suite...
UN organizations fear a risk of food shortages in most vulnerable countries
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 r... Lire la suite...
World coffee consumption, a victim of coronavirus
Global coffee consumption is likely to fall considerably as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. This was estimated by the International Coffee Organization (I... Lire la suite...
Blockchain in agri-food – somewhere between hope and doubt
Will blockchain be a breakthrough technology for the future or simply a source of false hopes? Revealed to the general public through cryptocurrencies, it is no... Lire la suite...
The index of certain agricultural products plummets over 9% in a month
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 ha... Lire la suite...
Panic buying may drive world food inflation
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 oils... Lire la suite...
Toward Food Nationalism ?
Some governments are moving to secure domestic food supplies during the conoravirus pandemic. Kazakhstan, one of the world’s biggest shippers of wheat flour, ba... Lire la suite...
Increase in global grain production, but risks of regional shortages
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 las... Lire la suite...
Coronavirus epidemic disrupting agricultural markets
The global spread of the coronavirus epidemic is significantly disrupting the functioning of agricultural markets. Operators fear a decrease in trade, while the... Lire la suite...
Tackling Animal Welfare during transport with micro climate sensors
The Canadian agtech startup Transport Genie is a precision monitoring company that is focused on monitoring microclimate conditions as animals are being transpo... Lire la suite...
A new variety of soja bean with up to 50% more protein
Benson Hill, the crop genetics startup based out of St Louis, Missouri, is working to improve the sustainability credentials of the leading source of plant-base... Lire la suite...
Efforts to combat locusts hampered by the fight against Covid-19
In East Africa the Coronavirus pandemic is holding up the fight against the swarms of locusts that have been devastating crops in several countries of the regio... Lire la suite...
African banana producers and Covid-19
Faced with the health crisis associated with the Covid-19 pandemic, African banana companies have taken action and are rigorously implementing all the health re... Lire la suite...