In South Africa, the avocado output could record a new performance in 2018. Indeed, according to latest data from the South African Avocado Growers’ Association (SAAGA), the fruit output is set to increase to 125, 000 tons in 2018, from 117, 000 tons in 2017 (+8, 000 tons) thanks to growing local and international demand. This figure remains above the five-year average (118, 000 tons) in...

In Tunisia, revenues from date exports reached TND402.4 million ($168 million) on March 15, 2018, for the 2017-18 season. The information was given yesterday March 19, by the minister of agriculture, water resources, and fishery.  This represents an increase by 22.2% compared to the revenues by the same period during the previous season. The country achieved this feat thanks to an increase...

On Monday 19, 2018, Iamgold announced that it had launched the hybrid plant of Essakane (15 MW) on March 16, which should supply its gold mine in the same region. Many officials such as Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, the Minister of Mines and Energy, members of the Government and local communities’ representatives were present for the launching ceremony. The construction of this...

In Morocco, the National Union of Small-scale Farmers and Forest Professionals denounces the risks faced by populations of Tamtatoucht (South-Eastern side) in the framework of the Toudgha “tourist port” project. In an open letter titled “Collective land grabbing and theft of public property in Morocco”, they expressed their feelings to the Secretary-General of the European...

It is estimated that around 143 million persons could become “climate migrants” by 2050, if nothing is done to combat climate change within  the specified period. This was revealed in a report published yesterday March 19, by World Bank. The major part of these people (86 million) will come from sub-Saharan Africa, the report indicated. This  flow in migration could be as the...

World Bank will grant $27.8 million to Mali to help it protect Niger river. This was revealed by the bank in a statement published on March 16, 2018. The resource is divided into a loan and a donation from International Development Association (IDA) worth $13.9 million each. This grant, which falls in line with the project for Economic and Environmental Rehabilitation of...

In Côte d'Ivoire, the National Agricultural Union for Progress (SYNAP-CI), made of 57, 000 producers, maintains its strike launched a week ago to denounce the blockage of coffee beans in Ivorian ports, reports RFI. “The managers in charge of the regularisation, commercialization, and stabilization must tell us what's amiss. We will continue to put pressure and denounce until the last truck is...

The Dutch banking group Rabobank forecasts a global coffee surplus of 3.2 million bean bags, down 900, 000 from initial expectations (4.1 million bags) for the 2018-19 season. This was revealed in the bank’s quarterly coffee outlook report published last week. According to Rabobank which specified that this surplus will entirely be the Arabica coffee variety, this surplus cut is due to...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced last March 16, that it has reached a staff-level preliminary agreement with Malian authorities on the conclusion of the eighth review of Mali’s economic and financial program supported by the Extended Credit Facility (ECF), and on the 2018 consultation under Article IV of IMF’s statutes. Once this review is approved by the institution’s...

Tokely Justin, the head of Madagascar’s national institute for decentralization and local development (INDD), asked mayors to make further efforts to achieve sustainable land tenure security, L’Express de Madagascar reports. Speaking during the award of certificates of completion to the land tenure office agents in Vakinankaratra region, the authority stressed...