The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
An eminent ICARDA scientist has been awarded the World Food Prize in recognition of his significant contributions to global wheat production, helping to feed millions of people through the development of more nutritious varieties that are resistant to disease and adaptable to a wide range of climatic conditions. In a …
Food inflation in India has remained stubborn in recent years. A number of proximate factors such as increasing demand particularly arising from higher rural wages, rising agricultural cost of production, changing consumption pattern favoring protein items, increases in minimum support prices (MSPs) and droughts in certain years are believed to …
CHANGSHA -- A team led by Yuan Longping, known in China as "the father of hybrid rice" has made a record for hybrid rice production with an average yield of 1,004.5 kilograms per mu (0.0667 hectares). The new record was confirmed by experts from the Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center …
The government is likely to extend time given to states for a complete rollout of the food security law as majority of the states, including Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Gujarat, are yet to prepare beneficiary lists and have the logistical arrangements to implement the scheme. Last month, the government …
Rice production in Bangladesh would mark a fall by 1.6 per cent in 2050 and 5.05 per cent in 2100 due to climate change, according to a recent report of the Asian Development Bank. Citing a study of Bangladesh Agriculture University, the newly released ADB report titled, ‘Assessing the Costs …
The world is headed "down a dangerous path" with disruption of the food system possible within a decade as climate change undermines nations' ability to feed themselves, according to a senior World Bank official. Rising urban populations are contributing to expanded demand for meat, adding to nutrition shortages for the …
The climate change effect might eat up more than 27 per cent of the paddy yield in Bangladesh by 2050, experts said Wednesday.Besides, the rising natural calamities like salinity, flash flood, stagnant flood, tidal flood, drought, cold, heat could also reduce paddy yield by nearly 64 per cent within 2070, …
The world is headed "down a dangerous path" with disruption of the food system possible within a decade as climate change undermines nations' ability to feed themselves, according to a senior World Bank official. Rising urban populations are contributing to expanded demand for meat, adding to nutrition shortages for the …
Almost 50 years ago, Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri went on air to appeal to Indians to skip a meal a day. Foodgrain supplies had come under strain after the 1965 drought, and the patriotic ethos cautioned against over-consumption: what you ate left that much less for the rest. Today, …
A year after releasing the world's first zinc-enriched rice variety, Bangladeshi breeders have come up with another rice variety with higher zinc content and greater yield potentials. High-zinc rice -- Brri dhan-62 -- released late last year contains around 19 to 20 parts per million (ppm) zinc against 14 to …
A new kind of hybrid rice developed in China is expected to achieve a target yield of a thousand kilograms per mu, or 6070 kilograms per acre, this year. Yuan Longping, the leader of the development team, says the hybrid rice is growing quite well in test fields in Central …
An international team of researchers have sequenced the complete genome of African rice, enabling the development of new rice varieties that are better able to cope with increasing environmental stresses to help solve global hunger issues. The genetic information will also enhance understanding of the growing patterns of African rice. …
Climate change could pose an even greater threat to global food production than previously thought, according to new research. Rising temperatures will not only damage heat-sensitive crops – they’ll also increase toxic air pollution, which will harm crops even further. The study, out this week in the journal Nature Climate …
Ozone pollution, which worsens breathing problems and causes air quality warnings, may compound global warming's damage to the world's food crops, according to a new study. Ground-level ozone, formed mainly from pollutants emitted by burning fossil fuels for cars, industry and power plants, increases as temperatures rise. That's why air …
Salvadoran farmers are protesting a stipulation in a $277 million U.S. aid package that would have indirectly required them to purchase American agricultural giant Monsanto Corp.'s (NYSE:MON) genetically modified corn and bean seeds rather than source seeds locally, according to a report published on Tuesday but denied by the U.S. …
The Atlas of African Agriculture Research & Development gives African farmers and those working to serve them insights and resources to help boost agricultural production without degrading the region’s natural resources for future use.
The increasing demand for agricultural products and the uncertainty of international food markets has recently drawn the attention of governments and agribusiness firms toward investments in productive agricultural land, mostly in the developing world. The targeted countries are typically located in regions that have remained only marginally utilized because of …
Monsoon rainfall in India, the main source of irrigation for the nation’s 263 million farmers, will be below normal this year as El Nino emerges, weakening prospects for crops from rice to soybeans and sugar and potentially boosting inflation. Showers in the June-September season will be 93 percent of a …
Finance Minister Yair Lapid approved a decision on Sunday to declare 2014 a drought year in the Negev, as well as other parts of the South and the North. The decision came after agricultural areas damaged by the drought were examined and losses to farmers were evaluated. Farmers who produce …
Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) Ministry of National Food Security and Research (MNFS&R;) and Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences (YAAS) Yunnan Province China have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Wednesday. Purpose of the accord is to promote the development oriented scientific research in the field of agriculture and …
