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Zimbabwe’s corn crop for the 2017/18 MY is estimated at around 2.2 million tons, up more than 300 percent from the 2016/17 MY’s corn crop of 512,000 tons.

The outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in South Africa led to Southern African countries, including Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe suspending....

The German food service sector is large, fragmented and highly competitive. Food service sales continue to be led primarily by independent full-service restaurants.

The German food industry represents the fourth–largest industry in Germany. In 2016, Germany produced an estimated USD $196 billion of processed food and drinks.

On February 2, 2017, the European Commission launched a consultation on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in order to better understand where the current policy can be simplified....

Animal welfare is at the heart of the discussion regarding the farming’s future in Germany.

For MY 2016/17 (August to July) total cotton production for Burkina Faso, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Mali and Senegal is estimated to rise 18 percent to 1.8 million metric tons (MMT) due to higher area....

Germany is a member of the European Union (EU) and generally follows EU directives and regulations, including those relating to the importation of food products.

The 2016/17 MY production of citrus is estimated to increase as the country recovers from drought in the main growing regions.

Two studies conducted by Eastern European Members States (MS) have concluded that identically branded food products are being sold with lower quality in Eastern Europe than Western Europe.

As millions of east African smallholder farmers seek to recover from a devastating drought, they face a new threat-fall armyworms.