{"id":104509,"date":"2024-10-08T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/10\/08\/ethiopias-coffee-and-cut-flower-producers-struggle-to-adhere-to-new-eu-regulations\/"},"modified":"2024-10-08T09:00:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T13:00:43","slug":"ethiopias-coffee-and-cut-flower-producers-struggle-to-adhere-to-new-eu-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/10\/08\/ethiopias-coffee-and-cut-flower-producers-struggle-to-adhere-to-new-eu-regulations\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia&rsquo;s coffee and cut flower producers struggle to adhere to new EU regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Ethiopia&rsquo;s coffee and cut flower industries are grappling with significant challenges due to new EU regulations. From January 2025, producers must comply with the bloc&rsquo;s Due Diligence Act, which mandates strict environmental standards for exporting to Europe. Millions of small-scale coffee farmers will need to demonstrate that their land is free from deforestation, while flower farmers will have to address a pest that threatens European markets or risk exclusion from the trade. This poses a major concern for Ethiopia, which exports 30 percent of its coffee and 8 percent of its flowers to Europe. Adhering to these new EU standards will be a daunting task, as FRANCE 24&rsquo;s\u00a0Clothilde Hazard and Olivia Bizot report.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia&rsquo;s coffee and cut flower industries are grappling with significant challenges due to new EU regulations. From January 2025, producers must comply with the bloc&rsquo;s Due Diligence Act, which mandates strict environmental standards for exporting to Europe. Millions of small-scale coffee farmers will need to demonstrate that their land is free from deforestation, while flower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,3],"class_list":["post-104509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afriqueune","tag-africa","tag-afrique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}