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FT Global Commodities Summit
Category: Commodity News/Commodity News
... of Industrials, EMEA, Credit Suisse Ray Key, Head of Metals Trading, Deutsche Bank Pierre Barbé, President Trading & Shipping, TOTSA Total Oil Trading SA Abdolreza Abbassian, Head of Grain Analysis, FAO ...
Saturday, 21 January 2012 -
FAO Food Price Index ends year with sharp decline
Category: Commodity News/Agriculture & Softs Commodity News
Rome, 12 January 2012 Food prices fell in December 2011 with the FAO Food Price Index dropping 2.4 percent, or five points from November, FAO said today. At its new level of 211 points, the Index was ...
Thursday, 12 January 2012 -
Major gains in efficiency of livestock systems needed
Category: Commodity Reports/Agriculture & Softs Commodity Reports
... resources, according to a new FAO report published today. Populations and income growth are fueling an ongoing trend towards greater per capita consumption of animal protein in developing countries, ...
Wednesday, 14 December 2011 -
Corruption undermining land access, development
Category: Commodity Reports/Agriculture & Softs Commodity Reports
... according to a paper jointly prepared by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and global corruption watchdog Transparency International (TI). "These developments have strained the rules, ...
Monday, 12 December 2011 -
Food prices ease marginally
Category: Commodity News/Agriculture & Softs Commodity News
Rome, 8 December 2011 The FAO Food Price Index in November was virtually unchanged from its October level. At the new level of 215 points, the Index was 23 points, or 10 percent, below its peak in February ...
Thursday, 08 December 2011 -
"Energy-smart" agriculture needed to escape fossil fuel trap
Category: Commodity Reports/Agriculture & Softs Commodity Reports
Durban, 29 November 2011 The global food system needs to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels to succeed in feeding a growing world population, FAO said today. "There is justifiable concern that ...
Tuesday, 29 November 2011 -
Scarcity & degradation of land and water: growing threat to food security
Category: Commodity Reports/Environmental Markets & Commodity Reports
... to the task of feeding a world population expected to reach 9 billion people by 2050, according to a new FAO report published today. The State of the World’s Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture ...
Monday, 28 November 2011 -
Traditional crops key to facing climate change: FAO
Category: Commodity Reports/Agriculture & Softs Commodity Reports
... (FAO) said today, as it observed the tenth anniversary of the international treaty to protect and share plant genetic resources. FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf called on countries to develop ...
Tuesday, 15 November 2011 -
FAO Food Price Index down in October
Category: Commodity News/Agriculture & Softs Commodity News
Rome, 3 November 2011 The FAO Food price index dropped to an 11-month low in October, declining 4 percent, or nine points, to 216 points from September. Nonetheless prices still remain generally higher ...
Thursday, 03 November 2011 -
Agricultural coops key to reducing hunger and poverty
Category: Commodity Reports/Agriculture & Softs Commodity Reports
... the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP) stressed today on the occasion of the launch of the International ...
Monday, 31 October 2011 -
FAO cautious on drop in food prices
Category: Commodity News/Commodity News
Source: Financial Times, 23rd October 2011 For food and drink companies more accustomed to battling input inflation, the 5.3 per cent drop in food prices - as measured by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation's ...
Sunday, 23 October 2011 -
Expert panel publishes reports on price volatility, land tenure and farmland investment deals
Category: Commodity Reports/Agriculture & Softs Commodity Reports
... Price Volatility and Food Security and Land Tenure and International Investments in Agriculture. The documents will feed into discussions at the upcoming CFS annual meeting at FAO headquarters in ...
Monday, 17 October 2011 -
Brazil as a commodity exporter – opportunities & risks
Category: Commodity Reports/Power & Energy Commodity Reports
... potential is huge. Its potential arable land is estimated at over 400m hectares (FAO), but only 50m are currently being used, and Brazil has more spare farmland than the next two largest countries combined. ...
Monday, 17 October 2011 -
FAO Food Price Index falls for third consecutive month
Category: Commodity News/Agriculture & Softs Commodity News
Rome, 6 October 2011 The FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) averaged 225 points in September 2011, down 2 percent, or 4.5 points, from August. The FFPI is only 13 points below the peak of 238 reached in February ...
Thursday, 06 October 2011 -
World cereal markets expected to stay tight
Category: Commodity News/Agriculture & Softs Commodity News
Rome, 6 October 2011 Despite improved production prospects, world cereal markets are likely to remain fairly tight in 2011/2012, FAO said today. FAO's quarterly Crop Prospects and Food Situation (CPFS) ...
Thursday, 06 October 2011 -
IDF and FAO Guide to Good Dairy Practice
Category: Commodity Reports/Agriculture & Softs Commodity Reports
Brussels, 4 october 2011 In collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Dairy Federation (IDF) has produced a revised Guide to Good Dairy Farming ...
Wednesday, 05 October 2011 -
FAO Food Price Index almost unchanged
Category: Commodity News/Agriculture & Softs Commodity News
Rome, 8 September 2011 World food prices remained virtually unchanged between July and August 2011 according to the FAO Food Price Index published today. The Index averaged 231 points last month compared ...
Thursday, 08 September 2011 -
Food inflation in focus amid lofty price outlook
Category: Commodity News/Agriculture & Softs Commodity News
Chicago, 25 July 2011: Reuters Grain prices will likely remain at elevated levels at the end of this year, a Reuters Poll showed, providing little relief to food prices while continuing to challenge ...
Monday, 25 July 2011 -
Dwindling global rice surplus prompts price surge fears
Category: Commodity News/Agriculture & Softs Commodity News
... the next three years is seen diving 90 percent to 200,000 tonnes by the end of the decade, under normal weather patterns, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says. The UN food agency and the ...
Monday, 18 July 2011 -
The Beginning of the Beginning of the End
Category: Commodity Reports/Power & Energy Commodity Reports
... as measured by FAO price index. I don't see any inkling of a sign that that situation will improve in the medium to longer-term., which brings me back to the title of this article, "The Beginning of the ...
Thursday, 14 July 2011
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