Recent spikes in staple food prices resulting from the invasion of Ukraine have once again highlighted the difficulty faced by low-income countries that rely on imports for a substantial portion of their food supply. To better understand which countries are most affected by higher world food prices, we propose a …
About 20 million vehicles that require scrapping have accumulated in India, according to a report by an Indian think tank. The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), in a new report, said of the two billion global vehicle fleet, over 40 million vehicles -- 4 per cent of global automobile …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of M. C. Mehta Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/07/2018 regarding air pollution control in Delhi NCR. The Supreme Cout Order touched upon three key issues: 1. Ban on import of pet coke 2. Natural gas to be …
Food imports are placing an increasing burden on the world's poorest countries, a new FAO report says. The world food import bill has broadly tripled since 2000 to reach $1.43 trillion in 2017, while it has risen around fivefold for countries that are the most vulnerable to food shortages. This …
In Kenya, food consumption is outpacing food production. According to a new Institute for Security Studies report, annual agricultural production will need to increase by an estimated 75% from 2015 levels in order to meet consumption in 2030. Kenya’s agricultural sector, the eighth largest in Africa by volume, has struggled …
Members of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA), farmers’ representatives and civil society organisations have called for adequate budget towards agriculture sector so as to reduce huge food imports incurred by East African countries. The call was made on Wednesday in Nairobi Kenya, during the opening of 3rd EAC agriculture …
Achieving global food security is one of the major challenges of the coming decades. In order to tackle future food security challenges we must understand the past. This study presents a historical analysis of global food availability, one of the key elements of food security. By calculating national level dietary …
Economic globalization and concomitant growth in international trade since the late 1990s have profoundly reorganized global production activities and related CO2 emissions. Here we show trade among developing nations (i.e., South–South trade) has more than doubled between 2004 and 2011, which reflects a new phase of globalization. Some production activities …
The Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture decided to ban agricultural imports from South Africa over the outbreak of deadly listeria bacteria in South African agricultural products, official MENA news agency reported Thursday. The Egyptian ministry's Central Administration for Agricultural Quarantine also banned issuing any import permits related to agricultural products from …
Morogoro — High cost of renewable energy appliances and technologies and of alternative sources of energy due to import tax have been cited as some of the challenges standing in the way of expanding their use in Tanzania. Mazingira Network Tanzania's (Manet) executive secretary Frank Luvanda revealed this in an …
China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment announced yesterday that China will ban imports of 32 types of solid waste in its latest move to reduce environmental pollution. Sixteen types of solid waste, including compressed car scraps and scrapped ships, will be banned from import beginning from December 31, the ministry …
Order of the Madras High Court in the matter of M/s Shapoorji Pallonji Infrastructure Capital Co Ltd. Vs Ministry of Finance & Others dated 16/04/2018 regarding imposition 70% of Safeguard Duty on import of Solar Cells whether or not assembled in Modules or panels. Madras High Court while dismissing the …
Importation of timber and timber products has not been banned, the government clarified yesterday. However, a joint verification, at the border entry point, of the source and origin of the products and authenticity of importation documents must be carried out. Environment CS Keriako Tobiko, in a statement, said joint verification …
The report is the first detailed study of the currently-opaque trade in used car imports onto the African continent by De Jong and his team, due to be released by UN Environment later this year. The report also found that there were policy inconsistencies and ineffective policies in place that …
A research fellow at the Centre for Coastal Management of the University of Cape Coast Dr. Donaltus Agnorien has charged authorities to double up efforts aimed at saving the country’s water bodies. The country, he explains is heading for doom as water bodies in the country are at a stage …
A local organization that distributes seeds in South Sudan's Gbudue state wants the government to restrict international groups from importing seed into the country. The nonprofit Global Agriculture Innovation & Solutions Ltd. (GAIS) works with 200 farmers across Gbudue. GAIS Executive Director Mike Gaga says he does not understand why …
Cape Town - The United States remains the biggest importer of trophy-hunted endangered animals in the world in spite of Donald Trump’s recent public comments overturning a decision by the US Department of Interior to allow elephant trophies into the United States. In 2016 alone the US imported 3 249 …
Cape Town - In the last two years, China has imported more than 80 live Asian elephants from across its border in Laos and almost 100 juvenile African elephants from Zimbabwe. They were all destined for zoos throughout China. According to wildlife investigator and film-maker, Karl Ammann, the Laotian Prime …
One of China's biggest makers of solar panels said Tuesday it will invest $309 million to expand manufacturing in India in a move to guard against what it complained is a rising threat of import controls in the United States and other markets. Longi Solar Technology Ltd.'s announcement follows the …
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 …
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 …
