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Category: Agriculture

Mexico foreign ministry to speak with U.S. to end avocado conflict, president says

🇲🇽🇺🇸 Mexico foreign ministry to speak with U.S. to end avocado conflict, president says Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday that he would ask the country’s foreign minister to speak with the U.S. ambassador to the country to restart U.S. imports of Mexican avocados. The U.S. suspended inspections of avocados last week…
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June 20, 2024
Appropriation of Russian assets is illegal and contrary to UN Charter, Kenya’s President Ruto says

“The unilateral appropriation of Russian assets is […] unlawful, unacceptable, and a derogation from the UN Charter, especially for those who believe in freedom, justice, democracy, and the rule of law,” he said during a speech at the conference on Ukraine in Switzerland. The Kenyan president also called for peace, adding that Kenyan farmers have…
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June 18, 2024
Zimbabwe says 60% of it’s population needs Food Aid until March

Zimbabwe said 9 million people — more than half of its population — will need food aid until March after the El Niño weather phenomenon resulted in a drought that decimated the nation’s corn crop, a staple in the southern African country. That forecast is a 17% increase from its previous prediction of 7.7 million…
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May 28, 2024
Brewing Trouble: Ethiopian coffee industry faces impact of new EU regulations

🇪🇹🇪🇺 Regulations from the European Union (EU) that aim to stop deforestation globally will go into effect in 2025, with a focus on palm oil and soy as the two main risks to tropical forests. Soon, coffee importers will have to use satellite data to demonstrate that their supply chains do not contribute to deforestation,…
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May 27, 2024
Liberian Government Approves Rice Price Increase Amid Importers’ Pressures, Pledges Focus on Local Production

MONROVIA – The Government of Liberia (GOL), through the Minister of Commerce and Industry Amin Modad, has announced that it has agreed to a request from importers to increase the price of a specific brand of rice on the local market, describing the rice industry as a “cartel.” Rice is Liberia’s staple food. Major importers…
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May 22, 2024
Conseil Café-Cacao declares war on cocoa operators with Lebanese ties

Yves Koné, the head of the cocoa industry watchdog, has suspended the operations of several cooperatives that are suspected of buying and reselling beans above the regulated price. The Conseil Café-Cacao (CCC), which is run by Yves Brahima Koné, has removed sales and purchase codes from some forty cocoa cooperatives suspected of secretly working with operators belonging to…
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May 17, 2024
Nestle program to increase income of bean farmers in Africa leaves workers below living wage, report says

🌍 The Swiss food giant has enrolled 11,000 farming households in the leading agricultural region of Cote d’Ivoire in a program that pays farmers $535 in bonuses, and is expanding the program to neighboring Ghana. “Those in the program still earn almost $3,000 a year below the amount of just over $7,500 that’s needed to…
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April 30, 2024
Cocoa farming in Liberia risks undermining EU deforestation law

JOHANNESBURG, April 22 (panafrican.email) – Farmers are clearing forests in Liberia to create cocoa plantations and are trafficking the beans into neighbouring Ivory Coast, undermining European efforts to curb deforestation, research by a conservation group showed on Monday. A law approved by the European Union and set to come into force at the end of this year…
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April 23, 2024