Trade

In mid-January, Germany’s Ministry of Agriculture traditionally invites the Minister’s counterparts from all over the world to Berlin to discuss agrifood policy issues. This year, the role of trade in global food…

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Can international trade in agriculture contribute to sufficiently and sustainably providing the growing world population with high-value nutrition? This question was at the centre of the Global Forum for Food and…

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Bold policy changes are needed to make African businesses ready to reap benefits from the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), this year’s edition of the Africa's Development Dynamics report states.

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Russia wants to strengthen its trading relationships with African countries. The first Russia-Africa summit in October 2019 was a further step taken by Russia to gain more influence on the African continent.

 

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This report provides a comprehensive analysis around the main challenges and opportunities that could favour or hinder regional trade throughout Africa.

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World-wide tree seed trade is not as safe as previously assumed. Researchers of the Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI), the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL)…

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Africa plays a minimal role in German foreign trade. In 2018, trade with Africa totalled around EUR 45 billion. At the end of August, the think tank “Global Perspectives Initiative”, founded in Berlin in 2016 to support…

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Fairtrade certification benefits the employees of agricultural cooperatives but do not necessarily improve income of farm workers, say researchers who investigated the situation in smallholder farming in Côte d’Ivoire.

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This report highlights the role of diets, urbanization, emissions and trade in outlook for next decade. Thus, agricultural output growth is likely to keep food prices low over the coming decade, but many uncertainties…

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The African Continental Free Trade Area will cover a market of 1.2 billion consumers and a GDP of 2.5 trillion US dollars.
Trade

The intra-regional agreement of the African Continental Free Trade Area seeks to address the continent’s tough structural problems. So far, intra-African trade has remained well below its potential, and only accounts for…

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