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 …
The world's food supplies are at risk because farmland is becoming rapidly concentrated in the hands of wealthy elites and corporations, a study has found. Small farmers, the UN says, grow 70% of the world's food but a new analysis of government data suggests the land which they control is …
A research conducted by Renewable Natural Resources Research and Development Sub-Centre (RNRRDSC) in Tsirang has found that Baj and Agreem – two new wheat variety – to be more resistent to rust infection than Sonalika, the variety the farmers have been growing. Rust has been a recurrent threat to wheat …
The first ‘satellite remote-sensing laboratory’ of the country was inaugurated on Tuesday at the crop reporting services centre functioning in the agriculture extension division office. Agriculture Secretary Ahmed Bakhsh Narejo inaugurated the lab established in collaboration with the Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco) and the Food and …
The price of popular breakfast cereals is set to soar over the next 15 years as a result of climate change, argues a new report from Oxfam International. If left unchecked, the effects of climate change on basic crops—like rice, wheat and corn—could drive up the cost of Kellogg's Frosted …
An Obama administration program set up to reduce chronic hunger and poverty has contributed to rising incomes for farmers around the world and has helped save millions of people from starvation, according to a report released Monday by the United States Agency for International Development. The program, Feed the Future, …
El Nino events can have a significant impact on the yields of certain major food crops, a study has shown. Researchers say the climatic phenomenon, which triggers changes in temperature and rainfall, can reduce maize yields by more than 4%. El Nino episodes are caused by changes in the sea …
A new centre in Nairobi is exploring whether 100 traditional African crops could bring food security to millions of people Smallholders and the rural poor in Africa grow a huge variety of edible plants other than maize, wheat and rice. These other crops – including baobab, amaranth, breadfruit and the …
Bihari farmer produces bumper crop four times larger than average using system of rice intensification An Indian farmer has set a state and possibly a national record for growing rice using a neglected method of cultivation that has been dismissed by academic researchers and received little financial backing from agribusiness. …
Rising levels of CO2 around the world will significantly impact the nutrient content of crops according to a new study. Experiments show levels of zinc, iron and protein are likely to be reduced by up to 10% in wheat and rice by 2050. The scientists say this could have health …
Report of the Committee Constituted Under the Chairmanship of Dr.P.K.Mishra, Ex-secretary, Department of Agriculture & Cooperation to Review the Implementation of crop Insurance schemes in India. This report attempts to address some of the issues and challenges facing major crop insurance schemes being operated in India. Many of the issues …
A pilot study of American mothers' milk has found levels of the herbicide glyphosate around 1,000 times higher than allowed in European drinking water. Campaigners are demanding a ban on the use of glyphosate on food crops. In the first ever testing on glyphosate herbicide in the breast milk of …
Scientists and farmers make competing claims for cutting-edge science and low-tech sustainable farming to tackle the issue As governments meet in Berlin, scientists and farmers on the frontline of climate change in the Philippines are at odds over how best to adapt agriculture to the much higher temperatures and weather …
A field test has demonstrated for the first time that elevated levels of carbon dioxide restrict plants' ability to transform nitrate into proteins, indicating that the nutritional quality of food crops is at risk as climate change intensifies. Findings from this wheat field-test study, led by a UC Davis plant …
As IPCC report warns of climate impact on food security, researchers are looking at whether talking about food could break political deadlock on global warming Reframing climate change as a food issue as the world's leading scientists did this week could provide an opportunity to mobilise people, experts say. Academics …
This study examines recent documented experiences of biofuel projects to determine whether biofuel production in low-income countries (LICs) reduces food production and food security in the areas in which they are established. It is the second part of a two-stage analysis; the first stage of the analysis investigated the status …
Environmental group Greenpeace today moved the Election Commission, seeking annulment of the GEAC decision to revalidate the field trials for ten varieties of genetically modified (GM) food crops. In its letter to Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampath, Greenpeace India Executive Director Samit Aich also asked the Election Commission to …
Corn, wheat and rice yields will start to suffer from climate change in 2030, according to a study led by the UK's University of Leeds based on climate models and research on crop productivity. “Crop yields will be negatively affected by climate change much earlier than expected,” Andy Challinor, a …
This Report of the Committee on Agriculture deals with the action taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in the Thirty-seventh Report of the Committee on Agriculture (2012-2013) on "Cultivation of Genetically Modified Food Crops - Prospects And Effects" of The Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agriculture and Cooperation) …
Unseasonal rain accompanied by hailstorm in central parts of Maharashtra has claimed four more lives in day and more than 50% crops on 6.72 lakh hectares of agricultural land across the state has been damaged. The death toll due to the heavy rain and lightning has climbed to 12, including …
Pakistan continues to face the threat of ‘Ug99’, a disease that cause rust on wheat, as the country has not developed enough disease-resistant varieties, cautioned an official of the US Department of Agriculture. “The threat is enormous because Pakistan does not have many Ug99-resistant varieties,” Ian Winborne, Plant Health Adviser …
