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The production of avocados in South Africa is estimated to decrease marginally by 2 percent to 130,000 Metric Tons (MT) in the 2020/21 MY, based on the cyclical on-year and off-year nature...

Kenya’s imports of consumer-oriented food products grew at an average annual rate of 11 percent between 2015 and 2019.

South Africa is continuing to experiencing a positive trend in the area planted with summer rainfall field crops during the past two decades.

China’s first National Plan to Adapt to Climate Change was issued in 2007 and was followed by a series of policy and strategy documents to manage the challenges caused by climate change...

On November 15, China joined 14 Asia-Pacific countries in signing the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement.

On February 8, 2021, China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) notified the U.S. Embassy in Beijing that on February 1, 2021, China detected highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI)...

In December 2020, the Government of Nigeria through the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) authorized guidelines on gene editing.

On February 1, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa partially lifted the ban on the domestic transportation and sale of alcohol beverages.

Effective January 27, 2021, Guangzhou became the latest city to implement requirements for imported frozen food to pass through and test negative for COVID at a ‘centralized supervision warehouse’...

The oil-rich Nigeria relies heavily on food and agricultural imports (mostly wheat, rice, poultry, fish, food services, consumer-oriented foods, etc.), valued about $10 billion to feed its...

On January 28, 2021, China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) notified the U.S. Embassy in Beijing that on January 21, 2021, China detected African Swine Fever (ASF)...

Post forecasts that China’s fluid milk production will grow slightly due to productivity gains on large-scale farms, but the overall herd size will remain unchanged in 2018.