Tag: Wheat
Ukraine: the figures of the wheat war
Ihe planet’s “breadbasket” is at war. In normal times, Russia and Ukraine together account for almost a third of world wheat exports. The Black Sea ports are at a standstill,…
Egyptian delegation to visit India to discuss wheat imports
Egypt, often the world’s biggest wheat importer, is facing a spike in bread and flour prices after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine closed it access to wheat from the Black Sea…
No supplies from the Ukraine: Organic farms are running out of animal feed
No supplies from Ukraine Organic farms are running out of animal feed 03/29/2022, 05:25 am The war in Ukraine is causing difficulties for livestock farmers in this country. You have…
Egypt faces soaring wheat prices
A baker in Mokattam district in southeastern Cairo on March 16, 2022, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine pushed up commodity prices in Egypt. AMR ABDALLAH DALSH / REUTERS Since the…
Lebanon multiplies contacts to escape a wheat crisis
Wheat grains in a factory in Beirut, the Lebanese capital, on March 1, 2022. MOHAMED AZAKIR / REUTERS Fouad is distraught in his small bakery in mana’ish, popular cooked wheat…
Wheat spilled in Brittany after the blocking of a train: the Lorient prosecutor’s office opens an investigation
Nearly 1,400 tonnes of wheat were rendered unusable after the action on Saturday of activists from the Collective “Brittany against factory farms”. An operation that sparked outrage in a context…
Fed with Ukrainian wheat, Egypt shaken by inflation
The pound has been devalued by more than 15%, which will make imported goods more expensive. 2000 km south of the port of Odessa, Cairo suffered the brunt of the…
Wheat spilled after blocking a train: investigation opened by the Lorient prosecutor’s office
On Saturday March 19, demonstrators dumped nearly 1,400 tonnes of wheat transported on a freight train from Beauce. The Lorient prosecutor’s office said on Monday that it had opened an…
Indian agriculture to make up for lack of Ukrainian and Russian wheat
DECRYPTION – The Indian government aims to export 10 million tonnes. Several countries are in the running. New Delhi Tunisia, Lebanon, Egypt… While the invasion of Ukraine never ends and…
Doing without Russian wheat: the AfDB’s strategy for Africa
ATn Senegal, a country that imports half of its wheat from Russia, one question is currently occupying consumers: what will be the price of bread? For several years, the government…
Brittany Extinction Rebellion activists attack grain train, emptied tons of wheat
“Several complaints” were filed after the blocking on Saturday of a train carrying cereals intended for the manufacture of animal feed and the dumping on the tracks of part of…
Fear of a food crisis: “We also have to move towards meat consumption and biofuels”
The war in Ukraine blocks a vital supply line, are Ukraine and Russia agricultural superpowers. Not only Europe will feel this, says Sebastian Lakner from the University of Rostock ntv.de.…