New dietary guidelines could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 1bn tonnes by 2030, and could lessen country’s problems with obesity and diabetes China now consumes 28% of the world’s meat, including half of its pork. Photograph: Wong Campion/Reuters The Chinese government has outlined a plan to reduce its citizens’ meat consumption by 50%, in a move that climate campaigners hope will provide major heft in the effort to avoid runaway global warming. Newdietary guidelinesdrawn up by China’s health ministry recommend that the nation’s 1.3 billion population should consume between 40g to 75g of meat per person each day. The. Read more...
Meat traders in Russia are exploring online operations, ushering in what experts claim is a new era of transparency for the sector and offering particular. Read more...
Demand for beef and other meat products remains strong in Africa, despite most producers in regions such as southern Africa and the Common Market for East and Southern Africa (COMESA) looking to grow exports into the European Union and other international markets, writes Tawanda Korombo. Africa is however battling a severe drought occasioned by the El Niño dry weather phenomenon. This has affected livestock production in most African countries such as South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi and others, leading to shortages of meat, dairy and other livestock products, officials and executives with cattle, poultry and dairy companies in the region said. This. Read more...
There have been 13 new outbreaks of African Swine Fever (ASF) reported across western Russia in both wild boar and farmed pigs. In total, 33 cases were reported in backyard farmed pigs and. Read more...
Meat production in Urkaine increased marginally in the first five months of the year, according to the. Read more...
Global poultry markets have faced a turbulent first few months this year due to intensive competition in global markets following the resumption of US exports after bird flu. Countries heavily exposed to global trade such as Brazil, Argentina and Thailand have been particularly affected, seeing prices tumble for legs and processed meat by 20% and breast meat by 6%. Price concessions in main poultry markets As a result, Brazil and the EU have been aggressively defending their market share but are having to do so through price concessions, according to the latest quarterly report from Rabobank. EU exporters have managed to increase export volumes by 5% but at. Read more...
The Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) plans to cut meat imports from non-EEU states by nearly two thirds, according to deputy head of. Read more...
There may be a light at the end of the tunnel for the beleaguered Russian economy; the World Bank’s latest forecastpredictsthe fall of GDP in 2016 to be 1.2 percent instead of the previously projected 1.9 percent. According to the bank, Russia's GDP will grow by 1.4 percent in 2017 and by 1.8 percent in 2018. The Russian economy is adjusting to the new environment better than expected, says Sergei Khestanov, an associate professor of the Department of Finance and Banking at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. According to him, the free float of the ruble, which led to the devaluation of the national currency, has become. Read more...
Ukraine has been rocked by an outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) which has left more than 700 pigs at risk of catching. Read more...
A culmination of factors including available markets and domestic production standards mean that a sharp reduction of pork exports is expected this year in Ukraine. Speaking at the ІІІ Agri Invest Forum, the Ukraine pig association chairman Artur Loza, suggested that there might be an almost 70% drop in exports compared to 2015, with only 15,000 tonnes of pork going to external markets. This figure is approximate, however as so-called gray exports still exist in the country, which is when pork is exported without appropriate custom clearance. Traditionally, this pork goes to Russia and rebel republics of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblast of Ukraine. Impact. Read more...
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