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08/10/2014 (The Star) - Malaysia’s exports grew faster-than-expected by 1.7% to RM63.88bil in August from a year ago, underpinned by sales of electrical and electronic (E&E) products, and exceeding economists’ forecast of a decline of 1.4%.

08/10/2014 (Nigerian Tribune) - FEMI IBIROGBA examines various policies aimed at entrenching agriculture in Nigeria since independence and factors affecting such, as well as how Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA) can avoid the same fate.

08/10/2014 (Channel News Asia) - The palm oil industry has long had a poor reputation - one fraught with deforestation, pollution and destroying the habitats of endangered species. Faced with widespread criticism, the industry has started to clean up their operations and the sector could be at a turning point.

08/10/2014 (FoodNavigator.com) - RSPO-certified sustainable palm oil now accounts for 18% of the total global palm oil market, up from 15% last year, according to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).

08/10/2014 (Bernama) - China will play an increasing role as an exporter of capital into Asean due to its high level of savings, saturation of domestic sectors, rising production costs and domestic deregulation of investment.

08/10/2014 (Reuters) - Indian soybean and soyoil futures dropped on Tuesday due to a sharp jump in imports of vegetable oils, shrugging off gains in the overseas markets where prices rose after a long weekend.

08/10/2014 (Jakarta Post) - It is not good to change the rules of the game while the match is still in play. But we should still commend the old House of Representatives for its approval of a new law on plantations one day before it ended its five-year term late last month even though the old law was only 10 years of age while plantation business licenses normally last for 35 years.

07/10/2014 (Reuters) - The following factors are likely to influence Malaysian palm oil futures and other vegetable oil markets on Tuesday.

07/10/2014 (Reuters) - Vegetable oil exports out of the Black Sea should fall significantly this year mainly due to a weather-hit sunflower seed crop, but they will remain the second largest on record, international trading house Bunge said on Tuesday.

07/10/2014 (Jakarta Post) - Indonesia is estimated to post higher economic growth in 2015 as the global economy improves, the World Bank says in its latest report on East Asia Pacific economies.

07/10/2014 (Center for Research on Globalization) - Since the global food crisis of 2008, there has been a massive wave of private sector investment in food production. The World Bank maintains that this money means innovation, jobs and more food for a hungry planet.

07/10/2014 (New York Times) - Walmart announced on Monday an initiative to reduce the environmental impact of the food it sells and to help customers improve the nutrition in their diets.