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Despite the moderate predictability of most global risks, there are also extreme events, difficult to anticipate, but with devastating impact-known as "black swans.” In 2026, a few such hypothetical scenarios deserve consideration...

Hurricane Melissa, the most violent weather event to ever hit Jamaica, is considered by scientists to be a direct product of human-induced climate change. A new study published last week by researchers at Imperial College London shows that a...

Agroland Agribusiness, a company in the Agroland group that sells inputs for conventional and organic agriculture, reported a turnover of 34.2 million lei in the first six months of the year, 12% more than in the first half of last year, while...

Côte d'Ivoire officially launched the Agricultural Commodities Exchange (Bourse des Matières Premières Agricoles - BMPA) on May 28, the first of its kind in West Africa, allafrica.com reports.

Ukraine's 2025 grain harvest could fall by 10% to about 51 million tonnes, compared with 56.7 million tonnes in 2024, according to the most pessimistic estimates, Ukrainian Agriculture Minister Vitaliy Koval said yesterday, Reuters reports,...

Turkish archaeologists have discovered a loaf of bread that is approximately 5,000 years old, during an excavation at the Kulluoba site, located 35 kilometers from Eskişehir, in central Turkey. According to the coordinator of the excavations,...

Farmers in our country recorded a total production of 17.87 million tons of grain cereals last year, of which wheat ranked first with 9.29 million tons, according to a situation issued yesterday by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural...

Victor Ponta admitted on the podcast "Hai, live! cu Turcescu şi Andronic" that he had deliberately decided to flood some Romanian villages in 2014 so that Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, would not face major floods. Moreover, Ponta...

The "Apocalypse Vault', the global seed bank located on the island of Spitsbergen in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, has received another 14,000 seed samples to protect the planet's agricultural biodiversity. The facility,...

Klaus Iohannis is leaving Cotroceni today. Definitively, following his resignation, after having served two full terms as president of the country, plus an almost two-month extension granted by the Constitutional Court. Iohannis is leaving...

The price of Arabica coffee futures hit a new record high on Monday in New York, as weather forecasts show dry weather in the main regions of Brazil where this agricultural raw material is grown.

The presence of Asian workers on construction sites, in traffic on scooters and bicycles, in restaurant kitchens and in many other places has become a habit. Discreet, they go about their business and generally work seriously. We know very little...

The price of Arabica coffee futures on Wednesday topped $4 per pound for the first time in history on the New York Stock Exchange, as concerns about global supply have driven prices to double over the past year, Bloomberg reported.

Commodity prices have experienced significant volatility in recent years, caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, disruptions in the global supply chain and geopolitical tensions.

Coffee and cocoa bean futures prices have seen some of the biggest increases among commodities in 2024, fueled by a sharp drop in supply and escalating global trade tensions.

Climate change is causing milder winters, with a greater number of days in which temperatures exceed 0 degrees Celsius, according to a report published by Climate Central and cited by AFP. The phenomenon has major implications for tourism,...

Bee-killing pesticides have been found in 85% of rivers tested in England, an analysis of UK government statistics has revealed. Environmental groups analysed Environment Agency data on neonicotinoid pesticides present in rivers tested in...

Increasing subsidies, developing the irrigation system, access to financing and amending the lease law are the main demands of farmers in our country, according to the White Paper on Agriculture 2024 document launched yesterday by the National...

A record number of Americans have become entrepreneurs during the pandemic, with the demand for new businesses reaching huge proportions, according to a visualcapitalist.com analysis based on figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)...

Reporter: In EU Member States we are witnessing a debate on GMO and NGTs cultivation. Farmers would like to grow plants that give higher yields and are more resistant to climate change, frost and drought through genetic modification, while...

Ukraine's economy grew by 4.2% in the first ten months of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023, thanks to the construction, transport and manufacturing sectors, the country's Economy Ministry announced, according to...

Good news travels as fast as bad. The rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by 30.6% in one year, between August 2023 and July 2024, a development presented as a success for President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who promised to fight...

The law of retaliation (an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth) seems to dominate the conduct of the two main powers in conflict in the Middle East. Both the authorities in Tehran, which ordered 180 ballistic missiles to be sent to Israel on...

In the fall, the crops are gathered and the students are counted. The rector of the University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Sciences and Technology "George Emil Palade" from Târgu Mures, Leonard Azamfirei, declared during the opening ceremony...

Oil and products made from this raw material represent, on average, 30% of global merchandise exports, valued at 1.5 trillion dollars annually, according to a visualcapitalist.com analysis.

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• EU Harvest Decline 

The Federation of Associations of Energy Utility Companies (ACUE) requests the Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE) to establish for the operators of natural gas distribution networks a remuneration rate for the invested capital different from that...

Albania is not only the country of Skenderberg, or the coast of the Adriatic Sea or the tradition present everywhere in the cities of Elbasan, Berat or Korcea, but also the state where agro-tourism is in full development, despite the problems...

Heavy rainfall and flooding have caused severe damage in southern China, causing landslides and making roads impassable.

The world is meteorologically in a transitional phase. The probability that the La Nina weather pattern, characterized by low temperatures in the Pacific Ocean, will develop between July and September is 65%, a US government weather agency...

In May, Ukraine set a new record for the amount of sugar exported in a single month, 108,000 tons, of which 65% went to the EU and 35% to other countries, the acting president of The National Association of Sugar Producers of Ukraine (Ukrsugar),...