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 …
Crop-killing drought deepened in Kansas over the last week, further jeopardizing this season's production of winter wheat, a key U.S. crop. Kansas is generally the top U.S. wheat-growing state, but the new crop planted last fall has been struggling with a lack of soil moisture. Without rain and/or heavy snow …
The parliamentary panel on food has indicated that the government may revise the prices of foodgrains distributed through the food security scheme to contain the widening fiscal deficit. “The government may revise the prices in five years, depending on grain production, procurement and stocks,” said Vilas Muttemwar, head of the …
Parliament's Standing Committee also proposed the State Food Commissions be vested with powers to check the quality of foodgrains before delivery from the central government. If the suggestions of Parliament’s standing committee on food are incorporated in the final version of the ambitious Food Security Bill, then beneficiaries of the …
The food security situation has deteriorated as compared to the previous quarter though the level of food insecurity was within a range of seasonal deterioration that is typically observed during the lean season, according to a report. According to the NeKSAP District Food Security Network (DFSN), out of the total …
The government has approved four major donor-funded projects worth US$ 134 million in the agriculture sector that aims to boost livestock and food production, address climate change and environmental issues and enhance communication technology. Of the total amount, donors have provided US$ 101.5 million in grants and soft loans and …
The Indian government is sitting on one of world's biggest hoards of food grains, about 667 lakh tons as of January 1, 2013. This is not some bizarre seasonal twist - monthly stocks of food grains averaged over 671 lakh tons for the whole of last year, including an all …
President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday presented Krishi Karman award to Bihar for a significant production of rice and paddy in 2011-12. Agriculture minister Narendra Singh received the award, consisting of a trophy, a citation and a cash of Rs1 crore, at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. The President also presented …
Harvests will fall dramatically during severe heatwaves, predicted to become many times more likely in coming decades The world's food crisis, where 1 billion people are already going hungry and a further 2 billion people will be affected by 2050, is set to worsen as increasing heatwaves reverse the rising …
Of the 234 pesticides registered by the Central Insecticides Board and Registered Committee 59 do not have set MRLs, shows this CSE study on the state of pesticide regulations in India from a food safety perspective in the light of recommendations made by the Joint Parliamentary Committee. The Joint Parliamentary …
Malnutrition still being the biggest malady of Odisha, the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) has come up with an innovative project to counter it. The Foundation will implement ‘Malnutrition Free Odisha Programme’ by April, the key component of which will be bio-fortification of farm lands, Prof MS Swaminathan, MP and …
Madhya Pradesh, on course for constant progress, has yet another feather in its cap lined up. The Krishi Karman Award for 2011-12 under the ‘Total Foodgrain Production Category First’ will be given away by President Pranab Mukherjee in Delhi on January 15, 2013. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Agriculture Development …
The Vidhan Sabha today unanimously adopted a resolution urging the Centre to help the state in promoting diversification and demanded a technology mission with an allocation of Rs 5,000 crore for Green Revolution states on the pattern of “Bringing Green Revolution to Eastern India (BGREI)” during the 12th Five-Year-Plan. A …
The amount of land needed to grow crops worldwide is at a peak and an area more than twice the size of France can return to nature by 2060 due to rising yields and slower population growth, a group of experts said on Monday. The report, conflicting with U.N. studies …
Farmers had sown rabi crops like wheat and pulses in 48.21 million hectare till last week, about three per cent higher than the year-ago period, according to the Agriculture Ministry. They had sown rabi (winter) crops in over 46.97 million hectare during the same period of last year. Sowing of …
Drought continued to expand through many key farming states within the central United States in the past week, as scattered rainfall failed to replenish parched soils, according to a report issued Thursday by state and federal climatology experts. Drought conditions were most pervasive in the Plains states, including in top …
The Punjab Government is likely to roll out the State’s first agriculture policy by mid-December, aimed to make the farming profession economically viable by suggesting measures to raise farmers’ dwindling income and promote crop diversification. “The farm is expected to come out by mid-December,” official sources said. “The draft of …
The European Union (EU) has announced on October 17 that the amount of biofuels that will be required to make up the transportation energy mix by 2020 has been halved from 10 per cent to 5 per cent. The rollback mostly affects first-generation biofuels, which are produced from food crops …
The Indian monsoon is likely to fail more often in the next 200 years threatening food supplies, unless governments agree how to limit climate change, a study showed on Tuesday. The monsoon rains could collapse about every fifth year between 2150 and 2200 with continued global warming, blamed mainly on …
India, which relies heavily on the monsoon rains for its vital agriculture sector, may suffer “frequent and severe” failures in its monsoon system due to global warming in next 200 years, a new research has warned. The effects of this unprecedented decline in rainfall by 40-70 per cent would be …
Food production accounts for up to 29 per cent of man-made greenhouse gases, twice the amount the United Nations has estimated comes from farming, a study published on Wednesday said. Looking at emissions across the food system - including forest clearance, fertiliser production and transport - rather than just farming …
