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Over the past several years, the African Union Commission (AUC) has explored the possibility of setting up a food safety body to help address many of the systemic food safety challenges across Africa.

On January 29, 2015, the government of Angola revoked import licenses for 25 agricultural products including poultry, effectively blocking imports of these products for an unspecified duration.

On January 27, 2015, the government of Nigeria (GON) in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, inaugurated: 1) Inter-Ministerial Committee on Food Safety and 2) National Food Safety Management Committee.

United States exporters of agricultural products to South Africa, especially meat exporters, face both tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade.

The Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement (CKFTA), which entered into force on January 1, 2015, will create new opportunities for Canadian farmers and ranchers in the Korean market...

Early outlook for 2015/2016 is for area seeded to wheat, barley, corn and oats to increase to more average levels as areas that were left unseeded the previous year due to inclement weather...

Post kept its estimate for the area planted with corn in the 2014/15 MY unchanged at 3.1 million hectares (including subsistence farming).

The start of a New Year brings a closer look at upcoming trends.