MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA/AFRICA – MEA REGION Regional Updates Due to the Ramadan Eid El Fitr holidays ending, there is no grain news or information from the MENA region this week.
SOUTHERN/EASTERN/WESTERN AFRICA Ghana’s government faces serious criticism from local farm organizations after releasing 14 GMO products – six types of soybeans and eight types of maize. The farm groups say that non-GMO high-yielding crops could be developed without resorting to GMO. They add that GMO seeds have “serious negative implications for health, the economy and the environment”. Sudan has received a donation shipment of 14,600 MT of Ukrainian wheat flour to be distributed by the World Food Pro...
What You Need to Know Today: Crude oil prices dropped sharply with traffic flowing through the Strait of Hormuz. There were reports that Iran was behind an attack on a cargo ship near the coast of Oman, which would be a violation of the memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran. Pr...
On Wednesday, the White House submitted a national security supplemental spending request for $87.6 billion. The majority of the request includes funding for the conflict in the Middle East, but there are agricultural provisions as well. The supplemental funding package includes more than $11 b...
