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Dossier February 2025

The wheat market.

The price of wheat on the entire global market, like that of other cereals, has always been very low, undergoing little change over the decades. For the 2024 harvest, the prices of bread-making soft wheat stood at around €225/t, thus falling to a level around 8% lower than in 2023, when the product was traded…

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Major producers.

Due to its particular climatic conditions together with the know-how of European farmers and the means deployed by the CAP for over half a century, the European continent is a particularly favourable place for the cultivation of wheat, to which it allocates approximately 22 Mha, or 10% of the world total. In recent years, European…

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Towards self-sufficiency.

The Asia-Pacific region is emerging as a key region in the wheat market especially that of flour. This is also due to the change in the diet of its consumers, who have switched from rice to wheat products, and also due to the presence of fewer carbohydrates in this cereal compared to rice. They are…

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The Geopolitics of Wheat. Resources as a weapon.

Since ancient times, food resources have played a decisive role in political dynamics both internally and externally. They constitute a key element on which the development and stability of states depend, as well as, migratory flows and conflicts over the possession and/or use of land and water. These resources can also take on geopolitical connotations…

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Advocacy

Maria Ressa. Information that gives hope.

“We want to create a federation of international journalistic organisations that collaborate in this effort, starting from the global South,” says Filipino journalist and 2022…

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Baobab

The Leopard, the Dog and the Tortoise.

Once upon a time, there was a leopard. He had a huge walnut tree that was full of nuts. Stingy as he was, however, he forbade…

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Youth & Mission

Mission. In the school of life and humanity.

Three young Comboni missionaries from three continents share their vocation stories and missionary experiences. Fr Victor Cunanan Parungao from the Philippines reflects on 15 years of…

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