Hammamet, Tunisia – The 29th Session of the African Commission on Agricultural Statistics (AFCAS29) has opened with a strong call to accelerate cooperation and innovation to meet Africa’s urgent need for reliable agricultural data. Organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and hosted by the Government of Tunisia, the gathering ...

NOAA Fisheries has confirmed that South Africa is among ten African nations granted full approval to export fish and fish products from all marine fisheries to the United States starting January 2026. The announcement follows NOAA’s enforcement of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), which sets stringent standards for foreign fisheries seeking access to the ...

Agriculture ministers and top-level policymakers from 14 African countries will meet with their counterparts from three Asian countries in Hanoi on 15 July 2025 to discuss making agrifood production more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable to reduce high levels of hunger, malnutrition and poverty in both regions. The High-Level Inter-regional Knowledge Exchange on One Country ...

The 4th Meeting of the Arab-Africa Trade Bridges (AATB) Board of Governors (BoG) alongside the 11th Meeting of the AATB Executive Committee (EC) will take place on July 1-2, 2024, in Tunis, Republic of Tunisia. In addition, AATB will be a strategic partner and sponsor the Tunisia Africa Business Meetings (TABM) 2024. This significant event, ...

A focus on Egypt and Tunisia Despite the noticeable growth in agricultural trade volumes between North Africa and the EU, stubborn issues such as food insecurity, escalating poverty and hunger rates, widening social and gender inequality, and the degradation and exhaustion of vital natural resources persist. These challenges undermine the region’s stride towards the Sustainable ...

A third consecutive year of drought conditions could push Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia to increase their wheat imports again in 2024/25 to meet demand and bolster wheat stocks. North Africa is the largest wheat-importing region in the world. Wheat imports to the area rose in 2023/24 to the highest level in seven years amid record-setting drought. Now, Gro’s Drought Index for the North African ...

The African Development Bank is providing Tunisia with financial support to improve the treatment of wastewater for reuse in agriculture and to improve climate resilience. The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group approved a loan of €81.9 million to Tunisia to implement the Treated Wastewater Quality Improvement Project For Climate Resilience Building ...

Tunisia’s Agriculture ministry announced Wednesday August 16 several financing plans for small farmers to the tune of $9 million in view of supporting the sector. The financing will come from State-run Banque Tunisienne de Solidarité (BTS), as result of the agreement with the agriculture department, “Tunisie Numerique” reports. The bank per the deal will provide ...

Tunisia’s ambassador emphasised the need to seek to strengthen bilateral cooperation through the exchange of experiences in the agricultural sector Tunisia – Minister of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries, Abdelmonem Belaati, stressed Tunisia’s desire to increase the level of technical and financial cooperation in agriculture and fisheries with South Africa and to enhance the promotion of ...

The mechanism initially concerns three collectors mandated by the Office des Céréales, including two seed collectors A new specific support mechanism for the agricultural sector in Tunisia has been set up by the European Union (EU) and the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICD), says a press release published Friday in Tunis. Launched as part ...