• How did sunflower maintain its competitiveness on Oilseeds markets?
  • Sunflower succeeded in maintaining its competitiveness on oilseeds markets in the previous decades, through continuous innovation in genetics, production and markets and a growing segmentation.
  • What is the growth rate of palm oil in 2030?
  • To summarize, the growth of palm oil production would range between 20 and 30?MnT until 2030. In the same period to 2030 the trend for edible oil consumption, due to the population growth and diets evolutions, would be to a growth of about 2%/year, i.e. +25 to 30?MnT depending on scenarios.
  • Is sunflower oil cheaper than rapeseed oil?
  • The last 3?years show a lasting inversion of this tendency, the sunflower oil FOB NW Europe being 41 to 48?US$/ton cheaper than soybean oil and 104 to 185?US$ cheaper than rapeseed oil (yearly average, October to September, source Oil World, 2019 ). It kept a premium between 30 and 130?US$ compared to palm oil.
  • Does the Democratic Republic of Congo have a mineral-rich Katanga region?
  • The Democratic Republic of Congo¡¯s mineral-rich Katanga region has long used its vast mineral wealth to simply import the food it needs, with relatively little investment in agriculture beyond smallholder subsistence farming.
  • Which countries import sunflower oil?
  • 75% of sunflower oil imports are bought by 8?countries (see Tab. 2 ). EU, CIS (mainly Ukraine and Russia) and Turkey are also exporters. The European Union is net importer of approx. 0.9?MnT /year; CIS is net exporter of 7.7?MnT.