Blogs

Brazil: The Evolution of Cattle Farming and the Sustainability Challenge Lola Izquierdo, Agri Benchmark Beef & Alberto Menghi, CRPA | 16 December 2024 Brazil ranks as the world’s second-largest beef producer and a leading exporter, holding 27.7% of the global market. With a national herd exceeding 200 million, cattle farming

Why is WTO part of the Problem? Christian Häberli, WTI | 9 December 2024 MATS has repeatedly posited that WTO and, across the lake, the World Economic Forum are fiddling on the roofs of Geneva while Rome (FAO), New York (UN) and Paris (Climate Agreement) are burning. Umpteen “conversations” in

Pathways to Sustainable Agricultural Trade: Insights from the MATS Project Ariane Voglhuber-Slavinsky, Ewa Dönitz, Anna Kirstgen, Fraunhofer ISI | 15 November 2024 In our quest for a sustainable future, the MATS (Making Agricultural Trade Sustainable) project stands out as a pioneering multistakeholder initiative that aims to provide novel policy-relevant insights

Is state-led investment in agricultural research and extension still the answer to raising smallholder farm productivity for export crops in Sub-Saharan Africa? Hoseana Bohela Lunogelo and Maximillan Yanda, ESRF | 4 November 2024 What more needs to be done for smallholders to thrive independently in SSA? Most of the exported

Ethical trade initiatives in the South African wine industry: a brief comparison Ernst Idsardi, North-West University | 22 October 2024 Case Study 12 of the MATS project evaluated the social standard schemes in the South African wine sector. The sector is renowned for its “high-quality-good-value” wines and is highly export

Prioritizing SDGs, the case of the Algerian dairy sector Alberto Menghi, CRPA & Dorothee Boelling, IFCN | 22 October 2024 In the last few decades, Algerian governments have decided to stimulate milk consumption by setting a low affordable “political price” for most of the citizens/consumers. The result is a relatively