Interested in livestock feed, animal disease, global feed price movements, competitive analysis of Brazil ag. sector, NZ beef carbon foodprint study (see below and
type the addresses into your browser for download).
2) FOCUS ON...African Swine Fever (ASF) recent developments - timely updates,"
Worrisome dynamics: Steady spread towards unaffected areas could have disastrous impact"
African swine fever (ASF)
is now established beyond Africa, in the Caucasus and the Russian Federation, where it is having a particularly devastating impact on small-scale pig farmers, who are losing a valuable protein source and cash income. In the past, the virus was already detected
outside Africa from the 1950s to the 1980s in Europe, the Caribbean and Brazil. Go to:
http://www.fao.org/docrep/016/ap372e/ap372e.pdf (cut and paste the address into your browser)
4)
http://www.usitc.gov/press_room/news_release/2012/er0525kk2.htm):
Brazil: Competitive Factors in Brazil Affecting US and Brazilian Agricultural Sales in Selected Third Country Markets (authored by the US International Trade Commission). They have an interesting chapter on beef. Obviously, the conclusion of
the analysis misses the potential opportunities of Brazil to compete with US beef if market access where allowed in many of the high quality markets, as well as the US market (for manufacturing grade beef).
5) Check out FAO's September Global Food Price Monitor:
1) Price movements by region,
2) Wheat and maize import dependence (and per caput food consumption) by country/region--see Table 1
3) Largest changes in prices of key commodities (highest year-to-year price movement in Malawi for maize, millet in Mali, sorghum in the Sudan). Go to graphs on the last page.
Meanwhile, remember that domestic price movements are available at the GIEWS food price and analytical tool:
http://www.fao.org/giews/pricetool/ while international prices are available at:
http://www.fao.org/economic/est/prices?lang=en
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Global Food Price Monitor
12 September 2012 |
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prices of wheat increased in August and those of maize remained close to the record level reached last month. International rice prices showed different trends according to origin.
In several
cereal import dependent countries, in particular in Central Asia and Central America, prices of wheat and maize have increased following trends
in international markets with a slight delay, although they remained generally below their levels of a year earlier.
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Africa, cereal prices have started to ease in regions where they were at peak levels following reduced harvests last year. Overall, however, prices
are still at high levels.
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