Since the discovery of large offshore oil and gas reserves in 2014, Senegal has set its hopes on fossil fuel export revenue to help fund its plans to become an emerging economy by 2035. Senegal is actively seeking investors to help develop its offshore oil and gas reserves – both …
More than 1.3-million live animals and plants, 1.5-million skins and two thousand tonnes of meat from CITES-listed species have been exported from 41 African countries to East and Southeast Asia since 2006, a ground-breaking new TRAFFIC report funded by Arcadia and published reveals. Exports included 975 different taxa listed under …
Russia and Ukraine are countries with relatively large untapped agricultural potentials, both in terms of abandoned agricultural land and substantial yield gaps. Here we present a comprehensive assessment of Russian and Ukrainian crop production potentials and we analyze possible impacts of their future utilization, on a regional as well as …
Provisional Coal Statistics 2016-17 is the latest Statistical Report on Coal in India based on the data received from various Indian coal companies. As the data provided here are based on pre-audited reports of the companies for the year 2016-17, the coal statistics has been termed as provisional. However, to …
Recolonization of benthos following dredging operations was studied in Mormugao Port Trust Harbour, Goa. Six stations were fixed for sampling within the radius of the dredging site. Three samples each were collected during dredging and after dredging.
This article mainly focuses on the approval process of drug import and export from India. Now a day’s foreign pharmaceutical companies have a better legal foundation for releasing new drugs in India. The Indian medical regulatory system has become more complicated, and new drugs can take a year or more …
Nigeria may suffer another disruption in crude oil exports if threats by Odimodi and Forcados communities in Delta State to shut down the Forcados Export Terminal are anything to go by. The communities threatened to shut down the facility over the spilling of over 40,000 barrels of crude oil that …
Sub-Saharan African exports of horticultural and processed agricultural products are growing in line with the major shift toward these products in world markets. Continued growth in such exports may be vitally important for expanding returns from African agriculture and for increasing Africa’s overall exports. Policy reforms such as reductions in …
US agriculture was modeled to determine impacts of removing farmed animals on food supply adequacy and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The modeled system without animals increased total food production (23%), altered foods available for domestic consumption, and decreased agricultural US GHGs (28%), but only reduced total US GHG by 2.6 …
An EU ban on the import of wild birds has cut the trade globally by 90 per cent, according to a new study. European countries accounted for the vast majority of bird imports before was the trade was outlawed in 2005. Two-thirds of animals were exported to Belgium, Italy, the …
Government has agreed to supply 100 megawatts of power to Burkina Faso after the country demanded for electricity from Ghana. Ghana has over the years supplied and received power from some West African countries, including Ivory Coast. Speaking at press conference in Accra, the Minister for Energy, Boakye Agyarko explained …
This study explores the potential links between specialization in cocoa exports and deforestation in developing nations through the lens of ecologically unequal exchange. Although chocolate production was once considered to have only minimal impacts on forests, recent reports suggest damaging trends due to increased demand and changing cultivation strategies. I …
Reed Beall and Randall Kuhn describe their findings from an analysis of use of compulsory licenses for pharmaceutical products by World Trade Organization members since 1995. Original Source
The Ugandan energy minister, Irene Muloni, has signed a deal that will require the Uganda Electricity Generation Company Limited (UEGCL) to export power to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the next three years. Muloni revealed this while speaking at the launch of the ISO certification of UEGCL in …
This paper, based on a primary survey of companies engaged in organic food business in India and the United Kingdom (UK), examines how organic food can attract more investment (domestic and foreign) across the entire food supply chain including manufacturing, farming, distribution and trading if supported by the right policy. …
Coal Directory of India provides Coal and Lignite Statistics spreading over eleven sections covering some general economy data, brief history of coal sector in India, present status, reserve, production, dispatches, pit head closing stock, price, export and import, trends of coal consumption in power, steel and cement production, captive coal …
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt is looking to reverse a series of bans on its agricultural products that has hit one of its most promising export sectors, Abdel Hamid al-Demerdash, the head of Egypt's Agriculture Export Council told Reuters. Egyptian crops from strawberries to peppers have been hit by temporary bans …
A UK-based private energy company, TuNur Ltd, has filed an application with the Tunisian ministry of energy, mines and renewable energy for a 4.5GW solar export project. The firm said in a statement that the project, which will be located at the newly established solar complex in the Sahara Desert …
JOHANNESBURG - The Botswana government announced on Tuesday that they have suspended export licenses for donkeys and donkey products such as meat and hides. Botswana Ministry of Agricultural Development and Food Security spokesperson, Geoffrey Pheko said the government has “noted with concern the indiscriminate and cruel slaughter of donkeys for …
The department of environmental affairs (DEA) has announced it has agreed to export 800 lion skeletons to Asia this year. Conservation groups, as well as the international organisations, are outraged by the decision. The DEA made the decision was made last Wednesday June 28. Government has argued that the absence …
Fair Trade Jewellery has announced the first export of conflict-free and traceable artisanal gold from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Canada. The milestone, which saw the export of 238 grams in three gold bars to Canada, comes a month after Partnership Africa Canada announced the Just Gold project had …
