7/11/13: Event: an update from the Perendale team attending IAOM Mid-East and Africa 2013

Now in to its third day, the IAOM Mideast and Africa 2013 conference and expo is in full swing at the Mövenpick Hotel and Marine Spa in Sousse,Tunisia. Delegates have been listening to a range of addresses from an abundance of diverse speakers. The 24th edition of IAOM MEA is truly an international affair.

Two of the Grain and Feed Milling Technology team - Tom Blacker and Darren Parris - are attending the event and distributing magazines. If you're at the event and get the chance, do stop by their stand and pick up a free copy of the magazine or browse the new International Milling Directory 2013-14. 

For a more comprehensive account of the opening ceremony and news from the team direct from Tunisia, visit our International Milling Directory blog here.

The registration desk remains busy at the IAOM Mid-East and Africa Conference and Expo which is in full swing in Sousse,Tunisia

 

Event: IAOM Mideast & Africa Expo

Taking place from 5 - 8 November 2013, the 24th IAOM Mideast and Africa Expo is the biggest gathering of milling experts in the Mideast and Africa district.

The expo will be conducted in a custom made marquee, boasting an area of 2500sqm stretched across the shores of Movenpick’s private beach in Sousse.

Sousse is the third economic region in Tunisia with olive groves stretching over more than 2,500 square kilometres. The agriculture sector is prominent throughout Tunisia, contributing to the country's export growth.

The conference will host a range of different speakers including:
- Martin Schlauri, managing director, Business Unit Grain Milling, Buhler AG, Switzerland
- Melinda Farris, executive vice president, International Association of Operative Millers (IAOM),  USA
- and Dr. Lutz Popper, head of R&D, Mühlenchemie, Germany.

The expo will also include a range of evening functions including a welcome reception dinner, trader's dinner, and a cultural cocktail dinner.

Two of the Grain and Feed Milling Technology team will be present at the expo, so do come and visit if you get the chance!

More information.
Exhibitor list available here.

Agriculture is big in Tunisia, a major contributing factor in the country's export growth



02/08/12: Anitox; CHS; Addcon

Hello, 

A business update for you all today:

• Anitox Corporation appoints New Concept Nutrition to distribute its products in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.  The agreement will further enhance Anitox’s ability to distribute its world-class range of feed safety and milling efficiency solutions in North Africa, whilst providing New Concept Nutrition’s customers in these countries with access to Anitox products, technologies, technical expertise and engineering support.  More information... 

• CHS (USA) acquires Atman (Brazil) to support commodity business expansion.  Read more... 

• Addcon registers FORMI NDF in Ukraine.  FORMI NDF will help the producers to guarantee efficient and sustainable broiler and layer farming.  Read more...

Igazu falls - Brazil (Photo credit: @Doug88888)

 

The impact of rising food prices on Arab unrest

As governments across the Arab world look for ways to calm their angry populations, one challenge in particular stands out: how to address the spiraling cost of food. Coincidence or not, the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt came just as world food prices hit a record high. The World Bank reported this week that the cost of food is now at "dangerous" levels.

High prices are far more burdensome for people in the developing world because they typically spend a much higher percentage of their income on food. Many also buy raw food commodities grain rather than packaged bread, for example and it is those commodity prices that have increased most dramatically. Wheat prices have doubled in the past six months alone. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine from Perendale Publishers.

Grain prices staying high, stoking unrest

Algeria and other wheat importers continue to buy grain even as prices rise, suggesting cereals will be costly in the coming months, a senior economist at the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization says. “Demand is not rationing even though prices remain high, and this is going to support prices for some time,” Abdolreza Abbassian at the Rome-based FAO said in an interview last week. “Countries are getting concerned as prices are staying high.”

Russia last year banned cereal exports after the country’s worst drought in at least half a century destroyed crops and cut 2010 production, sparking a surge in grain prices across the world. Ukraine also restricted exports. Paris-traded milling wheat futures have more than doubled in the past 12 months. Governments in Africa have faced protests amid rising costs and high unemployment, and a revolt toppled Tunisia’s leader.

“There’s also a question of instability in some countries, which could result in some countries purchasing more, and therefore adding more to the demand side,” Abbassian said. A surge in food and energy costs is stoking inflation in emerging markets and causing riots that may topple governments, Nouriel Roubini, the New York University economist who predicted the financial crisis, said Wednesday on Bloomberg Television’s “The Pulse.” Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine from Perendale Publishers.