Cereal yields in Ghana have increased much faster over the past decade—

Crop yields across Africa have lagged far behind the rest of the world — the regional average is around 2.5 times lower than the global average.

But some countries in the region show that yields can grow much faster. Ghana is one example. In the chart, you can see its cereal yields compared to the average for Africa as a whole.

Several government programs contributed to this growth.

In 2008, the Ghanaian government launched a fertilizer subsidy program; it had some impact on yields but was relatively modest.

The largest shift came from the introduction of the Planting for Food and Jobs program in 2017, which dedicated large public funds to distributing improved seeds, fertilizers, and other inputs to farmers.

The data shown is based on nationally reported statistics, and some researchers question the exact size of the reported gains.

But the result that yields have gone up looks robust: independent modeled assessments estimate that maize and rice production are over 40% higher than they would have been without the program.

(This Data Insight was written by @_HannahRitchie.)

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The main EU export partners of agricultural goods in 2025 were:

🇬🇧United Kingdom (23.3%; €55.6 billion)
🇺🇸United States (12.0%; €28.5 billion)

Imports:
🇧🇷Brazil (8.5%, €18.2 billion)
🇬🇧United Kingdom (8.0%; €17.1 billion)

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In 2025 the EU exported €238.2 billion worth of agricultural products and imported €213.5 billion, generating a €24.7 billion surplus.↔️

🔹Compared with 2024, both exports and imports registered year-on-year increases of 1.6% and 9.3%, respectively.

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Sheep up 3% in the year to December 2025
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📊In April 2026, compared to March 2026, the average level of consumer prices increased by 0.6 %. The rise in prices of clothing and footwear, as well as in transport group, mainly of fuels for transport, contributed the most to the price change.

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🔸 Statistical Assistant - Income and living conditions; Quality of life

Application deadline: 08/06/2026, 12.00 CEST ⌛

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What factors will impact cost increases in the manufacturing sector in the coming time? Entrepreneurs from this sector agree:
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🛠 prices of components and services
💼 labor costs.

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What if inequality is higher than we think? Household surveys often miss the richest households—creating a gap with national accounts.

New evidence explores what happens when we adjust for the “missing rich."

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The world is warming despite natural fluctuations from the El Niño cycle—

In 2025, the world was around 1.4 °C warmer than it was in pre-industrial times. But temperatures haven’t increased linearly; there have been spikes and dips along the way.

Many of these spikes and dips are caused by the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a natural climate cycle caused by changes in wind patterns and sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean that affects global temperatures and climate.

There are two key phases of the ENSO cycle: La Niña, which causes cooler global temperatures, and El Niño, which brings warmer conditions.

The world cycles between El Niño and La Niña phases every two to seven years. There are also “neutral” periods between these phases where the world is not in either extreme.

As you can see in the chart, global temperatures during recent La Niña years were hotter than El Niño years just a few decades before. “Cool” years today are hotter than “warm” years not too long ago.

Our colleague Veronika Samborska recently updated this data, which she does every month.

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Consumer prices rose 3.8% in April from a year earlier, a clear impact of higher gas prices since the start of the war with Iran https://t.co/2bhNnT17dJ

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