The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
By adopting the sustainable development goals, the world has committed to ending hunger, achieving food security and improving nutrition by 2030. But climate change is already undermining the livelihoods and food security of the most vulnerable populations. Ensuring food security and good nutrition in the face of climate change is …
In the agricultural sector, risks are inherent and ubiquitous, posing potentially serious consequences for stakeholders and consumers. Risks disrupt supply chains, causing extensive financial and economic losses. Agricultural risks are also the principal cause of transient food insecurity, creating a poverty trap for millions of households across the developing world …
Low emissions development strategies (LEDS) are national economic and social development plans that promote sustainable development while reducing GHG emissions. While LEDS programs have helped to mainstream economy-wide planning for low emissions, planning for low emissions agriculture has remained nascent. Low-emissions development (LED) in agriculture acknowledges that the primary purpose …
NPF-2007 was formed after the recommendations of a National Commission on Farmers, headed by eminent agricultural scientist M S Swaminathan The government might form a panel to review the National Policy on Farmers, framed in 2007 (NPF-2007), said a senior official. Radha Mohan Singh, minister of agriculture, had also indicated …
Cooperative giant IFFCO has initiated a soil health card scheme while celebrating the “soil health fortnight” in the Abohar area. A mobile van has been provided by Chandigarh-based zone office to facilitate on-the-spot soil testing. At a gathering in Waryamkhera village near here, 50 cards were issued. Experts exhorted farmers …
While in the past, increased use of inputs and expansion of agricultural land accounted for a good part of agricultural growth in Africa, improvements in productivity will need to be a major driver of growth in the future. Thus, agricultural innovations are needed to sustainably increase productivity, i.e. output per …
On the National Press Day, a discussion on “Farmer Suicide: Killing or Suicide” was organised here on Monday. The panel which discussed the topic broadly agreed that farmers are committing suicides due to the faulty agricultural policy of the Government and its indifferent attitude towards drought-hit farmers. President of Western …
Twenty years ago, the first genetically modified (GM) crops were planted in the USA, alongside dazzling promises about this new technology. Two decades on, the promises are getting bigger and bigger, but GM crops are not delivering any of them. Not only was this technology supposed to make food and …
At a time when whitefly attack has sparked farmer suicides in Punjab and Haryana, nearly 250 farmers of Jind district expect bumper cotton crop and that, too, without using pesticides. Like previous years, an insects education campaign, “Know insects before killing them”, launched in 2008, helped farmers this year as …
A new report, the “2015 African Agriculture Status Report,” released at the African Green Revolution Forum, states that modernizing Africa’s agriculture sector to attract young people would help tackle youth unemployment and food insecurity. The report, produced by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), said outdated land-tenure …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced an Rs 3,094 crore package for rejuvenation of agriculture in poll-bound Bihar, which is part of his overall package of Rs 125,000 crore for the state. Funds for the sector will be spent on up gradation of Rajendra Prasad Agriculture University to Central …
State agriculture department has undertaken a 15-day publicity drive to raise awareness among farmers for cultivating plots that were damaged in floods. The department will spend around Rs.44 lakh for the initiative. This apart, it has also approached agricultural scientists for suggestions on alternative crops and farming techniques for cultivating …
This publication provides one of the most comprehensive insights into the organisations and initiatives working to build resilience in agriculture in Kenya. On the basis of the evidence arising from the case studies presented in this report, Greenpeace proposes to put climate change at the forefront of agricultural development and …
BHOPAL: State's horticulture department is yet to finalize horticulture plan for different cities in the state including state capital Bhopal. Officer-in-charge of the department has been summoned by green tribunal on July 21. On Wednesday, central zone bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) comprising judicial member Justice Dalip Singh …
Africa faces a myriad of hurdles on its way to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the post-2015 development agenda. Climate change, population growth, youth bulge, widespread unemployment, extreme poverty and hunger are some of the challenges that the continent is grappling with. Africa’s agricultural potential is immense. It …
The city's grain bowl is shrinking. In the pas one-and-a-half years about 700 acres of farmland in Najafgarh, southwest Delhi has been sold off for other uses officials at the sub-registrar's office say. One reason is the boom in property prices. Like their counterparts in Noida and Gurgaon a decade …
Latin America has the planet's largest land reserves for agriculture and had the most rapid agricultural expansion during the twenty-first century. A large portion of the expansion replaced forests, as shown by many local and regional studies. However, expansion varied regionally and also replaced other land covers. Further, it is …
This booklet is the second in the series on small and marginal farmers in India and presents the advantages of agroecological practices. Travelled far and wide to understand how farmers are growing what they want to grow, preserving indigenous varieties of seeds, eating nutritious and healthy food, increasing the quantity …
This year the plan would be implemented under Union government's RKVY scheme for the first time The Odisha government plans to scale up hybrid rice and maize seed production in state under Rashtriya Krishi Vikash Yojna (RKVY) to boost productivity in the state. Cultivation of hybrid seeds is being done …
PANAJI: The agriculture department has adopted 25 villages in a bid to restore the agro-system of yesteryears through a multi-pronged approach of catering to the whole range of the farmers requirements. The agro-climatic requirement in villages has eroded over the years due to lack of interest in farming, shrinking space …
