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France
Cameroon and Senegal are the main beneficiaries of Macron's FARM initiative

Backed by the European Union, France's FARM initiative has resulted in the creation of a system of concertation among public and private parties in the cereals sector. Egypt and Algeria have decided not to take part but Senegal and Cameroon have seized the opportunity. [...]

Published on 28/11/2022 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Cargill
Catherine Geslain-Laneelle
Célestin Kamanou Tawamba
Club Demeter
Emmanuel Macron
Food and Agriculture Resilience Mission
General Authority for Supply Commodities
International Fund for Agricultural Development
Invivo
Lecureur
Louis Dreyfus Co
Office des Cereales
Oxfam
Proparco
Sébastien Abis
Soufflet
United Nations
World Food Programme

West Africa
New WFP aid package for Ouagadougou, Abuja and N'Djamena

The UN World Food Programme decided on a new support plan for Africa in early February. The budget is close to €30m.

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Sub-saharan Africa
France gives helping hand to Céréalis' growing trade in Africa

Céréalis, the leading French wheat trader south of the Sahara, has been granted a new credit facility by a subsidiary of France's AFD development agency. West and Central African millers, who have turned increasingly to French wheat because of the war in Ukraine, had lobbyied for the measure.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Central Africa 08.02.2023

Egypt
Big players weather Egypt wheat crisis but many small firms may perish

Major disruption in Egypt's wheat processing sector continues as the country awaits an IMF loan due next month. Only a handful of major players are managing to get supplies, while many smaller flour mills may not survive.

Subscribers only Commodity traders 28.11.2022

Workers unload wheat at the Banha grain silos, in Qalyubia Governorate, Egypt, the 25th May 2022.

Senegal
Dakar flour production could grind to a halt over unpaid subsidies

Senegalese millers are threatening to stop flour production if the government does not pay them promised subsidies, which they say amount to €58m. They have already drastically reduced their supplies from grain traders.

Subscribers only Commodity traders 13.09.2022

France
FARM coordinator in Addis to work with AU on food security

France's Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle, who coordinates the international initiative FARM, which seeks to provide food security in the countries most dependent on agricultural imports, will be at the AU headquarters from 6 to 7 July. The pan-African organisation wants to lift the barriers blocking Africa's access to essential food products, even those from Russia.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Diplomacy 01.07.2022

Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle, from France, coordinator of the international Food and Agriculture Resilience Mission (Farm) initiative.

France
France discusses its FARM food security plan with major agricultural commodities traders

France recently brought together the largest international traders to support its initiative towards the countries most dependent on agricultural imports. But NGOs fear that the FARM Task Force overlooks longer-term agricultural issues in Africa.

Subscribers only Commodity traders 28.06.2022

Cameroon
Ukraine-Russia: faced with soaring wheat prices, millers unilaterally raise flour prices

Célestin Tawamba, head of Cameroon's employers' federation and owner of La Pasta, is leading the Cameroonian flour mills' revolt against the government. After failing to obtain tax and customs exemptions, he and his competitors have decided to flout their sector's regulations.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Business 01.03.2022

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Invivo
Lecureur
Louis Dreyfus Co
Office des Cereales
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Proparco
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Mali, Senegal, Togo
The secrets of Demex, the trader selling Russian oil in West Africa

France
Cameroon and Senegal are the main beneficiaries of Macron's FARM initiative

West Africa
New WFP aid package for Ouagadougou, Abuja and N'Djamena

Sub-saharan Africa
France gives helping hand to Céréalis' growing trade in Africa

Egypt
Big players weather Egypt wheat crisis but many small firms may perish

Senegal
Dakar flour production could grind to a halt over unpaid subsidies

France
FARM coordinator in Addis to work with AU on food security

France
France discusses its FARM food security plan with major agricultural commodities traders

Cameroon
Ukraine-Russia: faced with soaring wheat prices, millers unilaterally raise flour prices