https://rbtfl.xyz/en/track/agriculture-food Grain, fertilizer, seeds and the price of a meal. https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/fao-food-prices-0807 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/fao-food-prices-0807 Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The UN Food and Agriculture Organization reported on August 7 that its global food commodity price index edged higher in July, driven by rising cereal, vegetable oil and sugar prices that outweighed declines in meat and dairy; Bloomberg separately reported global food prices rose to a three-year high [confirmed] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/black-sea-grain-0806 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/black-sea-grain-0806 Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Black Sea milling wheat fell to US$225.5 per tonne FOB for September shipments on August 6, 2026, its lowest level since June 2025, even as Ukraine's deep-strike campaign drove Russian refining to a two-decade low and attacks on both sides closed grain ports intermittently; analysts cited weak global import demand as the dominant downward price pressure; Ukraine's export corridors remained partially open despite ongoing attacks on port infrastructure [worsening] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/mexico-avocado-michoacan-0806 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/mexico-avocado-michoacan-0806 Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The US Department of Agriculture suspended avocado verification and shipment from Mexico's Michoacán state on August 5 after armed groups threatened its on-the-ground inspectors; without US inspection, Mexican avocados cannot legally enter the US market; industry groups said the halt 'directly impacts' the inspection system, and Mexico's trade confederation Cocena framed the suspension as US pressure to force Mexico into compliance with USMCA obligations [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/sudan-darfur-saf-drone-0802 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/sudan-darfur-saf-drone-0802 Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A rights group reported that Sudan's Sudanese Armed Forces struck Darfur by drone on August 2, killing 35 people; separately, a displaced-persons coordination body warned of imminent famine in Darfur as drought and soaring food prices cut off supplies [escalating] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/indonesia-mbg-poisoning-0804 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/indonesia-mbg-poisoning-0804 Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Food poisoning struck 707 students and teachers in Semarang on August 2, 13 of them hospitalised, after they consumed meals from Indonesia's flagship Makan Bergizi Gratis programme; the National Nutrition Agency suspended the Semarang distribution centre and declared a zero-tolerance policy on food-safety failures in the scheme [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/colombia-us-tariff-0724 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/colombia-us-tariff-0724 Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT A new US tariff on Colombian imports is exposing about 30% of Colombia's total US exports to higher costs, with flowers bearing the largest hit at nearly US$1.9 billion in annual shipments; Colombian flower growers and the incoming agriculture ministry are preparing support plans as the export sector warns of lost competitiveness [worsening] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/chile-floods-0727 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/chile-floods-0727 Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Chile's national emergency agency SENAPRED declared Red Alerts for at least 11 communes across three central regions on July 26-27 as intense winter rainfall combined with high-altitude snowmelt pushed the Perquilauquén, Chillán and Niblinto rivers above their red hydrometric thresholds; Chile's meteorological service forecast three consecutive weather systems bringing up to five more days of rain to the Santiago metropolitan area [worsening] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/europe-wildfire-0723 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/europe-wildfire-0723 Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Simultaneous wildfires across southern France, Spain, and Italy on July 23 killed three firefighters and forced at least 20,000 evacuations in France's Gironde region alone; a new fire near Bordeaux broke out as existing blazes burned in Spain and Italy, with Japan Times also reporting heat damage to Europe's grain harvest is the largest in decades [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/spain-wildfire-0722 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/spain-wildfire-0722 Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT A wildfire in central Spain burned more than 32,000 hectares by July 22 in what firefighters describe as one of the largest blazes in recent Spanish history, as a fresh surge of heat of up to 44C was forecast across the Mediterranean region and France's Var department continued battling the separate fire that killed firefighters and forced hundreds of evacuations [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/france-var-wildfire-0722 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/france-var-wildfire-0722 Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT A fast-moving wildfire in France's Var department on July 21-22 killed firefighters, destroyed 2,500 hectares and 10 homes, and forced hundreds of evacuations; the blaze was brought under control by July 22 as Spain's fires continued, part of a summer of back-to-back European heatwaves [stabilising] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/indonesia-free-meal-0722 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/indonesia-free-meal-0722 Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nanik Sudaryati Deyang, who took over Indonesia's National Nutrition Agency in June, resigned on July 22 citing a heart condition; Bloomberg reported she said the job left her 'traumatized'; the resignation marks the second leadership change in Prabowo Subianto's flagship nutrition programme in just over a month [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/pakistan-monsoon-2026-0722 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/pakistan-monsoon-2026-0722 Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Pakistan's cumulative monsoon death toll since June 26 rose above 100 by July 27, with at least 107 people killed and 344 injured as heavy rains and flash floods hit Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; the toll was 72 as of July 22, when rising Indus and Chenab levels triggered evacuation orders; Punjab's monsoon season typically continues through September, and authorities warned further rainfall was expected through the week [worsening] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/blacksea-russia-merchant-attacks-0720 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/blacksea-russia-merchant-attacks-0720 Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Russia stepped up strikes on merchant vessels and ports near Odesa in the Black Sea in late July 2026, killing at least ten people and disrupting Ukraine's grain export corridor; European wheat prices climbed above 230 euros per tonne at the Paris Euronext, with some readings reaching 240 euros, as traders priced in a sustained disruption to Black Sea grain shipments [worsening] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/nz-birdflu-0720 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/nz-birdflu-0720 Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT New Zealand confirmed bird flu in a poultry flock last week, prompting Mainland Poultry, the country's largest egg supplier, to put more than 550,000 free-range hens into precautionary lockdown; Woolworths New Zealand said egg supplies should hold [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/taylor-farms-cyclospora-0718 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/taylor-farms-cyclospora-0718 Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Taylor Farms recalled iceberg lettuce shipped to 27 US states on July 18 due to potential contamination with cyclospora, the intestinal parasite at the centre of a multistate outbreak that has now reached 34 US states; the recall follows an earlier link between cyclospora and shredded lettuce supplied to Taco Bell [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/tacobel-cyclospora-jul18 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/tacobel-cyclospora-jul18 Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified shredded lettuce from a single Mexico-based supplier, Taylor Farms, as the source of a cyclosporiasis outbreak at Taco Bell locations across five US states, with health officials still investigating the full case count [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/wheat-blacksea-vessel-attacks-jul16 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/wheat-blacksea-vessel-attacks-jul16 Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Ukraine's nine-day shadow-fleet campaign struck 116 Russian vessels; Russia struck civilian cargo ships under Tanzania, Liberia and Marshall Islands flags; the Kerch Strait has been closed since July 10 and EU wheat hit its highest price since February 2025 [disrupted] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/super-el-nino-food-prices-jul12 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/super-el-nino-food-prices-jul12 Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Analysts warned on July 12 that the developing super El Niño weather cycle could cause a 15.8 percent surge in global food commodity prices, compounding inflation already elevated by the Iran war, with the price shock potentially lasting into 2028; the Irish Examiner termed the effect 'climateflation', linking the phenomenon to drought risk across West Africa and Southeast Asia [worsening] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/indonesia-b50-biodiesel-0710 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/indonesia-b50-biodiesel-0710 Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto launched the B50 biodiesel program in West Java on July 9-10, requiring all diesel sold in Indonesia to contain 50 percent palm-based biodiesel; the mandate, an extension of a blending program that began at 5 percent in 2006, makes Indonesia the first country to mandate a 50 percent biofuel blend and is expected to raise domestic palm oil demand while reducing available exports [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/malaysia-thailand-seafood-jul9 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/malaysia-thailand-seafood-jul9 Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim and Thai PM Anutin Charnvirakul met in Putrajaya on July 9 and resolved a fisheries row that had soured bilateral trade since May, when Thailand restricted Malaysian-caught sea bass over chemical residue concerns and Malaysia responded by banning some Thai shrimp varieties; they signed an agriculture MoU and agreed to develop a special border economic zone. [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/fao-food-price-index-jun2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/fao-food-price-index-jun2026 Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The global food price benchmark averaged 130.3 points in June 2026, down 0.3% from May; wheat drove the drop while vegetable oils rose 3.8% and sugar and dairy also fell [easing] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/northern-nigeria-wfp-17m-hunger-jul2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/northern-nigeria-wfp-17m-hunger-jul2026 Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT WFP reported a 2-million increase in acutely food-insecure people across nine conflict-affected northern Nigerian states; Borno alone has 3 million in crisis, and WFP can reach fewer than 1 in 8 at-risk people [worsening] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/finas-nairobi-food-finance-jun30 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/finas-nairobi-food-finance-jun30 Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The three-day Financing Agri-Food Systems Sustainably summit opened at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre on June 30 with ministers, World Bank, FAO and private-sector leaders committing to close the financing shortfall that hobbles a sector employing more than 60 percent of Africa's workforce [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/west-africa-floods-jun30 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/west-africa-floods-jun30 Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Flash floods and landslides from a multi-day West African rain event killed 12 in Greater Accra and at least 12 more in Abidjan on June 29-30; June 2026 set Ghana's highest monthly rainfall on record, with 140mm falling on Accra in a single day, and President Mahama authorized emergency contingency funds [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/farmers-fertilizer-iran-lag-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/farmers-fertilizer-iran-lag-2026 Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Urea dropped by half from its April peak as Hormuz reopens, but USDA projects input costs elevated through 2027; farmers who cut nitrogen this spring will lose yields this fall [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/eu-barley-harvest-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/eu-barley-harvest-2026 Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The European Commission's June 25, 2026 cereals market situation report projected EU27 barley production at 52.2 million metric tonnes in 2026/27, a decline of 4.7 million tonnes from the prior year's record, with Spain facing the largest individual shortfall of roughly 2.4 million tonnes, followed by France and Germany; both area and yields are expected lower year-on-year across the bloc [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/ammonia-dossier https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/ammonia-dossier Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The world's second-most-produced chemical and the feedstock for all synthetic nitrogen fertilizers, supporting food production for roughly half the global population. https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/barley-dossier https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/barley-dossier Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Barley, the world's fourth-largest cereal by volume, is the primary feed grain for livestock and malt source for global brewing, with Australia, the EU, and Russia dominating export markets. https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/cocoa-dossier https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/cocoa-dossier Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana produce two-thirds of the world's cocoa, the tropical crop behind all chocolate, making West African harvests a global commodity price signal. https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/coffee-dossier https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/coffee-dossier Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The world's most-traded tropical commodity by value, connecting 25 million farming households across the southern hemisphere to import markets in Europe and North America. https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/corn-dossier https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/corn-dossier Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The world's most produced grain by volume, grown on every inhabited continent; US and Brazilian output, Chinese demand, and US ethanol policy jointly set the global price. https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/iuu-fishing-dossier https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/iuu-fishing-dossier Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Global catch-theft framework covering illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, worth US$10-23 billion in annual losses and increasingly entangled with organized crime and geopolitical fleet rivalries. https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/palm-oil-dossier https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/palm-oil-dossier Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The world's most-produced vegetable oil, grown primarily in Indonesia and Malaysia, underpins global food prices, biofuel mandates, and a deforestation dispute with the EU. https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/phosphate-dossier https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/phosphate-dossier Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The irreplaceable mineral nutrient at the base of all phosphatic fertilizers, with 70% of known global reserves concentrated in Morocco and Western Sahara, creating acute food-security dependency worldwide. https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/potash-dossier https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/potash-dossier Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Potassium-bearing mineral essential to global crop nutrition; Canada, Russia, and Belarus control roughly 70% of world supply, making it a geopolitical flashpoint. https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/rice-dossier https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/rice-dossier Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The world's primary caloric staple, feeding over 3.5 billion people; Indian export policy and Asian monsoon outcomes set the price that importing nations across Africa and Asia pay. https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/south-asia-monsoon-dossier https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/south-asia-monsoon-dossier Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The seasonal wind reversal delivering 75-90% of annual rainfall to nine countries between June and September, driving food security, flood risk, and public health across South Asia. https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/soy-dossier https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/soy-dossier Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The world's most-traded oilseed, produced mainly in Brazil, the US, and Argentina, and the protein backbone of global livestock feed and biofuel supply chains. https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/sugar-dossier https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/sugar-dossier Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT A globally traded bulk sweetener sourced from sugarcane and sugar beet; supply shocks from Brazil and India set food-import costs across South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/urea-dossier https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/urea-dossier Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The most widely traded nitrogen fertilizer globally, derived from natural gas or coal, with the Persian Gulf supplying 36 percent of exports and China's coal-based output setting the world price floor. https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/wheat-dossier https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/wheat-dossier Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The world's most widely traded grain, a daily staple for roughly 2.5 billion people; global prices hinge on Russian exports, US Great Plains weather, and Indian food policy. https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/ammonia-hormuz-price-surge-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/ammonia-hormuz-price-surge-2026 Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Iran's closure of the Hormuz Strait from February 2026 removed a third of globally traded fertilizer volumes, pushing urea up 54% in one month and threatening food-production costs into 2027 [ongoing] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/europe-heat-wave-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/europe-heat-wave-2026 Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT France logs its highest nationally averaged temperature ever; UK issues a rare red health alert; power prices spike 29%; crop damage projections for southern Europe [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/india-monsoon-2026-kharif https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/india-monsoon-2026-kharif Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT A 46% June rainfall deficit and El Nino-driven IMD forecast of 90% of long-period average has cotton and oilseed farmers in Maharashtra and Gujarat holding back planting [worsening] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/india-driest-june-monsoon-kharif-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/india-driest-june-monsoon-kharif-2026 Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT A 46% rainfall deficit by June 22 dries the soybean and groundnut belts even as Mumbai finally gets rain [worsening] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/fao-wfp-hunger-hotspots-june2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/fao-wfp-hunger-hotspots-june2026 Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The June 2026 Hunger Hotspots report flags Sudan, Palestine, South Sudan and Yemen at 'highest concern'; Somalia at famine risk; a 31% fertiliser spike from Hormuz runs through every figure [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/china-distant-water-iuu-fishing-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/china-distant-water-iuu-fishing-2026 Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT A January 2026 congressional report calls the ~16,000-vessel fleet a coordinated state instrument; Japan funds drone surveillance off South America [worsening] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/cotton-global-tightening-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/cotton-global-tightening-2026 Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The USDA's June 2026 Cotton: World Markets and Trade report projected 2026/27 global cotton output at 116 million bales, down 5.5% from the prior season, with world stocks forecast at their lowest level since 2018/19 and the stocks-to-use ratio at its smallest since 2010/11; ICE cotton futures were trading near 78 cents per pound in late June, up 15% year-on-year, with prices expected to reach 90 cents in 2026/27 [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/corn-global-stocks-low-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/corn-global-stocks-low-2026 Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Global maize ending stocks fall 19.4 million tonnes in the 2026/27 projection to 277.5 million tonnes, the tightest buffer in over a decade with world consumption now exceeding output by the same margin [ongoing] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/us-wheat-plains-drought-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/us-wheat-plains-drought-2026 Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT USDA's June 2026 WASDE report projects 2026-27 US winter wheat production at 1.048 billion bushels, down 25% from a year ago and the lowest since 1965, with hard red winter wheat in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas hardest hit; USDA projects the farm-gate average at US$6.50 per bushel for the marketing year [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/cotton-outlook-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/cotton-outlook-2026 Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT World cotton output forecast at 116 million bales for 2026/27, down from 121.9 million, as Australia, US and India post losses that China, Brazil and Pakistan only partly offset; mill use at a six-year high [concluded] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/mexico-cartel-timber-laundering-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/mexico-cartel-timber-laundering-2026 Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sinaloa and CJNG-allied factions match Chihuahua's legal logging output; PROFEPA shuts 25 sawmills as timber money buys Chinese precursors [worsening] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/india-sand-mining-mafia-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/india-sand-mining-mafia-2026 Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Supreme Court orders GPS tracking and CCTV in the Chambal sanctuary; 18 die in a mining blast as the sand mafia kills officials and reporters [worsening] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/fao-food-prices https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/fao-food-prices Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The FAO food index held near a three-year high in May; underneath, weather, fuel and fertilizer costs pushed all major grains higher [worsening] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/brazil-coffee-record-harvest-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/brazil-coffee-record-harvest-2026 Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT USDA and CONAB projections show a 14% production jump in Brazil's biennial high-cycle year, creating a global arabica surplus of up to 9.5 million bags; growers are holding back beans hoping for price recovery [ongoing] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/amazon-illegal-gold-laundering-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/amazon-illegal-gold-laundering-2026 Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Brazilian artisanal permits laundered 25 tonnes of gold from likely-illegal sites; mercury contamination pushes deeper into Cusco and Puno [worsening] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/india-palm-oil-import-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/india-palm-oil-import-2026 Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT India imports 60% of its edible oils and depends on Indonesia and Malaysia for 84% of its palm oil supply; a May 2026 Indonesian decree to route all palm oil exports through a single state-owned entity restructures the trade and raises supply risk [worsening] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/india-msp-farmer-politics-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/india-msp-farmer-politics-2026 Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Cabinet raised paddy MSP by Rs 72 to Rs 2,441 per quintal for kharif 2026, but SKM launched a protest cycle from May 27 demanding a statutory Swaminathan C2+50% guarantee; the Supreme Court issued notice in April on the legal-guarantee petition [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/india-sugar-export-ban-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/india-sugar-export-ban-2026 Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT DGFT moved raw, white, and refined sugar to the 'prohibited' category on May 13, 2026, after two consecutive seasons of consumption outpacing production and ethanol diversion cutting net output [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/lula-eu-meat-ban-g7-lobbying https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/lula-eu-meat-ban-g7-lobbying Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Brussels bans Brazilian meat, poultry and honey from September over growth-promoter use, weeks after Mercosur-EU took provisional effect [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/asf-germany-nrw-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/asf-germany-nrw-2026 Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT NRW has recorded 515 infected wild boar and 701 total casualties, while Saxony lost its newly regained disease-free status in April, leaving Germany's western border states under sustained ASF pressure in 2026 [disrupted] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/coffee-arabica-harvest-delay-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/coffee-arabica-harvest-delay-2026 Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT USDA projects a 71.9-million-bag Brazil harvest for 2026/27, but heavy rains delaying collection keep arabica futures elevated even as the market heads toward a 9.5-million-bag global surplus [ongoing] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/india-rice-exports-record-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/india-rice-exports-record-2026 Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT After a 14-month ban on non-basmati white rice exports that rattled global food markets in 2023-24, India progressively lifted all major restrictions; FY2025-26 exports are now forecast at 24 million tonnes, a record, and global prices are down 35% [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/india-fertilizer-urea-crisis-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/india-fertilizer-urea-crisis-2026 Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT An April tender priced urea at $959 per tonne, roughly twice pre-war levels, after Hormuz closure blocked shipments and China froze exports; a June NFL tender drew bids of $444, a 54% collapse as China re-entered the market [easing] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/wheat-rust-yr15-europe-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/wheat-rust-yr15-europe-2026 Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT A new race of wheat yellow rust, designated 'Champion' by the Global Rust Reference Centre in Denmark, overcame the widely planted Yr15 resistance gene across northern and central Europe in 2025-2026; nearly 50% of England's national wheat area carries Yr15, and similar foci were confirmed in France, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic, prompting AHDB to release emergency revised resistance ratings [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/fmd-cyprus-greece-sat1-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/fmd-cyprus-greece-sat1-2026 Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Outbreaks in cattle and sheep in Cyprus (February) and Greece (March) involve the SAT1 serotype, distinct from the 2025 European strains, raising the risk of a new introduction pathway from Africa via the Eastern Mediterranean [disrupted] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/australia-barley-china-exports-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/australia-barley-china-exports-2026 Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Australia's barley exports reached consecutive monthly records in the opening months of the 2025/26 (November-October) marketing year, with February 2026 setting the highest single-month volume on record; more than 80% of shipments went to China, which relies on Australia for roughly 57% of its total barley imports, as China's appetite for feed barley and malting barley rebounded strongly following the removal of Australian tariffs in 2023 [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/india-pmgkay-food-security-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/india-pmgkay-food-security-2026 Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT PMGKAY's five-year extension locked in free grain for 813.5 million beneficiaries through December 2028; a CBDC food-token pilot launched in Puducherry in February 2026, and a draft NFSA amendment proposes shifting from household to per-person entitlements [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/india-wheat-record-harvest-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/india-wheat-record-harvest-2026 Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The 2025-26 rabi season produced a record crop, procurement hit a four-year high, and February 2026 saw wheat exports permitted again for the first time since May 2022 as FCI stocks swelled to three times the buffer norm [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/yemen-wfp-shutdown-2026 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/yemen-wfp-shutdown-2026 Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The World Food Programme shut down all operations in Houthi-controlled Yemen in January 2026 after 73 UN staff were detained and offices seized; 18 million people in the north lost WFP coverage as Houthis resumed attacks on Israel in March [worsening] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/desert-locust-east-africa-2024 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/desert-locust-east-africa-2024 Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The 2019-2021 desert locust crisis, the worst in 70 years, destroyed crops across East Africa, Yemen, and South Asia; by 2022 the upsurge was officially controlled, but FAO's Desert Locust Watch through 2024-2025 documented continued breeding in Somalia, Ethiopia, and Sudan, localised outbreaks in Eritrea and Djibouti, and a spring 2025 surge in southern Arabia that required emergency aerial spraying across Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and Oman; the structural drivers of rapid population growth, La Nina rainfall patterns, and reduced surveillance capacity in conflict zones remain [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/panama-disease-tr4-latin-america https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/panama-disease-tr4-latin-america Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense Tropical Race 4 (Foc TR4), the soil-borne fungal pathogen that killed the Gros Michel banana variety in the 1950s, was confirmed in Colombia in 2019 and in Peru by 2022, placing it within the major banana export zones of northern South America that supply most of the world's Cavendish banana trade; the FAO-coordinated International Alliance Against Panama Disease estimates Foc TR4 threatens $25 billion annually in global banana trade with no commercially available variety-resistant replacement for the Cavendish [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/fall-armyworm-africa-asia https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/fall-armyworm-africa-asia Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Spodoptera frugiperda, the fall armyworm native to the Americas, was first detected in Africa in 2016 and had spread to all 54 African countries by 2018; it reached India and South Asia in 2018 and China by 2019; the FAO estimates annual maize and sorghum losses of $9.4 billion across sub-Saharan Africa alone, concentrated among smallholder subsistence farmers without access to pesticide or biological control inputs [active] https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/bluetongue-btv8-europe-2025 https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/bluetongue-btv8-europe-2025 Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Bluetongue virus serotype 8 (BTV-8) re-emerged in France in September 2023 following a 13-year absence and spread to Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands in 2024, while BTV-5 appeared simultaneously in Italy and France; by early 2025 three serotypes were circulating in continental Western Europe, prompting emergency trade restrictions on live cattle and sheep movements from France, Germany, and Belgium [active]