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(Food and Agriculture Organisation) Both our health and the health of our planet depend on plants. Plants make up 80% of the food we eat and 98% of the oxygen we breathe and yet they are under threat.  Up to 40% of food crops are lost due…
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Prices for food commodities like grains and vegetable oils reached their highest levels in February largely because of Russia's war in Ukraine and the “massive supply disruptions” it is causing. The FAO said its Food Price Index, which…
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The last time I wrote about developments in the relationship between the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) and the European Union (EU) was in November 2021. As Tuesday, April 5, was marked as OACPS Day, I am…
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Manuel Otero, Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) The world is in a state of unrest amidst a headlong collision of monumental crises, with no end in sight. There has been a…
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(CARICOM Private Sector Organisation Press Release) The CARICOM Private Sector Organisation (CPSO) executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on 1 March 2022, in the lead up to the start of the Thirty-Third Inter-Sessional Meeting of the…
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