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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.
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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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Nowadays, there are no end of shops that sell fairly-traded products. However, significantly more producers could benefit from this – above all if there was more support from the major brands.

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Will the world be able to feed itself adequately in 2030? Yes, our author maintains – provided that countries opt for lifting trade restrictions and thus ensuring an optimum and sustainable use of the world’s scarce…

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At first glance, global commodity flows and sustainable development do not exactly seem compatible. But the following article shows that international trade can indeed contribute to addressing critical food security and…

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