By Gus Trompiz and Michael Hogan PARIS/HAMBURG, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Relentless heat and drought could halve this year's French ...

The European Commission on Thursday reduced its forecast for the drought-hit maize harvest in the European Union to a new 15-year low while also increasing again its outlook for EU maize imports.

Wandile Sihlobo is the Presidential Envoy on Agriculture and Land. He is also the chief economist of the Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa and a senior research fellow in the Department of ...

Maize is the preferred staple of most of southern Africa. In Malawi it supplies two-thirds of national calorie intake. Nine out of 10 farming households produce maize and devote over 70% of their land ...