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Agribook Agriculture Weekly is a weekly blog post that covers all the important news in the farming and agriculture industry. Each week we put together a list of important news articles, blog posts and industry developments both nationally and internationally. This week we continue our focus on the impact of Covid-19 and also provide updates on global produce markets.

 

National

 

INTERNATIONAL

  • The Fresh Produce Exporters’ Forum (FPEF) newsletter gave an overview on various countries to which South Africa exports, as well as to the measures announced in those markets and the implications for South African exporters.
  • Fresh Plaza looks at how garlic is doing worldwide at www.freshplaza.com/article/9210965/overview-global-garlic-market/
  • The USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) included a report on the South African and eSwatini sugar industries this week.
  • The Institute for Security Studies investigates progress with the intra-African trade agreement AfCFTA in “The AfCFTA gets locked down for the year“.
  • The 2020 edition of The Global Report on Food Crises produced by the Global Network against Food Crises, an international alliance working to address the root causes of extreme hunger. Although South Africa is not included in the study, all our neighbours are – Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
  • A report from UN World Food Programme and others warns that 265m people are facing acute risk of starvation as a result of Covid-19. The Guardian reports. RT America also carried the story. See YouTube video.
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