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08 Nov 2024
In October 2024, wheat prices reached multi-month highs due to weather-related planting delays in parts of the northern hemisphere, although they later eased as field conditions improved. Maize prices also strengthened slightly despite swift harvest progress in the [...]
28 Jun 2016
The Group on Earth Observations Global Agricultural Monitoring initiative (GEOGLAM) became the eleventh member of the AMIS Secretariat. The AMIS Steering Committee unanimously approved GEOGLAM’s request for full membership at its meeting on Wednesday, 22 June, which formalizes [...]
15 Jun 2016
In an effort to increase the efficiency of Kazakhstan's grain sector, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) teamed up with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to promote the Agricultural Market Information System [...]
03 Jun 2016
In their 3 June meeting, G20 agriculture ministers acknowledged the heavy impact of extreme food price volatility on global food security and even global stability. Against this background, ministers renewed their commitment to fight extreme food price volatility [...]
25 May 2016
AMIS organized an international seminar on “Approaches and Methodologies for Crop Monitoring and Production Forecasting” in Dhaka on 25–26 May 2016, in collaboration with the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. Some 80 participants – a third of which from [...]
13 May 2016
The French Ministry of Agriculture, Agrifood, and Forestry signed a new grant agreement with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to support the work of the AMIS Secretariat. The grant, which will be channelled through the [...]