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 …
Officials here kicked off what promises to be more than a year of bitter wrangling over how to revise its $75 billion-a-year program to aid Europe's farmers, and the sniping began almost immediately. President Sarkozy, center, of France, a major recipient of farm subsidies. The European Commission on Wednesday released …
Grain output is growing as farmers chase high prices, according to US government figures, suggesting food inflation pressures may abate in the months to come. Farmers would harvest 681.2m tonnes of wheat and record crops of 860.1m tonnes of corn and 461.4m tonnes of rice in the current year, the …
India 67th In Global Hunger Index Among 81 Countries With Worst Figures New Delhi: India’s food security situation continues to rank as “alarming” according to the International Food Policy Research Institute’s Global Hunger Index, 2011. It ranks 67 of the 81 countries of the world with the worst food security …
Floods in Pakistan have damaged at least 880,000 hectares of standing crops, including rice, maize, cotton, sugar cane, fruit orchards and vegetables, which represent about 3.7 percent of total national crop area, the United Nations' food agency said on Tuesday, citing preliminary official estimates. "Damage to the current paddy crop …
MALKANGIRI: With over 90 per cent of standing crops in 40 gram panchayats in Kalimela and Podia blocks damaged, farmers, pani panchayat members and locals recently laid siege to Potteru Irrigation Division Executive Engineer’s office demanding that the region be declared ‘drought-hit’. Besides deficit in rainfall, the breaches in the …
World rice production is expected to touch a record 480.5 million tonnes this year on the back of higher output in Asia, Egypt, Argentina, Mozambique, the US and Russian Federation, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations. “The outlook for global rice production in 2011 …
Food commodity prices are likely to stay high and volatile during the next few years because of rising demand, more frequent extreme weather and the biofuel industry, according to a report from the UN’s agriculture agencies. Rising food prices and increasing volatility have become a big political and economic problem, …
The government has taken up Integrated Agricultural Productivity Project (IAPP) for ensuring food security by boosting agricultural production through proper management. The project would be implemented in 54 upazilas in eight districts at a cost of Taka 500 crore. The principal objective of the project is to increase overall agricultural …
World food prices fell 2 per cent in September, reflecting higher grain supplies and weakened demand, the United Nations’ food agency said on Thursday, easing inflation concerns ahead of an expected European Central Bank interest rate decision. The FAO Food Price Index, which measures monthly price changes for a food …
It is raining sops in Andhra Pradesh. The Congress government has unveiled yet another populist scheme envisaging interest-free crop loans up to Rs 1 lakh for farmers across the state. The new “zero interest” scheme, to be implemented from this agriculture scheme, will benefit 95 lakh farmers and cost the …
India's monsoon rains at the end of the June-September season Friday were 1% above the 50-year average, raising hopes of improved crop supplies at a time when the country is battling high food prices. The rains normally start subsiding in the first week of September, but they continued two weeks …
High food prices have put increasing inflationary pressures across the South Asian region and threatened food security. Bad weather in important food-producing countries and speculation in commodity markets have affected global food supplies and added volatility to booming commodity markets that have been fueled in the long-term by increasing global …
Genetic engineering has failed to increase the yield of any food crop but has vastly increased the use of chemicals and the growth of "superweeds". The GMO Emperor has no clothes empowers citizens to create a GMO-free world, rich in biodiversity and healthy food. It also advances alternatives that are …
Major British independent oil firm Greenergy sees its future as an exploration company, but one that hunts for fuel in piles of stale pork pies and cakes rather than under the ground or from food crops. The refined oil product wholesaler is still investing in the embattled European Union biodiesel …
The recent floods in Fazilka and Ferozepur districts has damaged infrastructure worth over Rs 28 crore — this excludes damage of crops which are still under water. According to Ferozepur Deputy Commissioner Dr S Karuna Raju, damage worth Rs 18 crore was witnessed in Ferozepur alone. While a 30-km stretch …
Bhubaneswar: The inter-ministerial Central team on Wednesday said that up to 80 percent crop loss was estimated due to floods that had also caused large-scale damage to kuchha houses. The crop loss varies from place to place. It could be about 50 to 80 percent in Sambalpur and Jajpur respectively. …
BHUBANESWAR: An inter-ministerial Central team estimated crop loss up to 80 per cent due to the recent spate of floods in the State. “The kharif crop loss varies from place to place. It could be about 50 to 80 per cent in Sambalpur and Jajpur,” M C Diwakar, Director, Directorate …
Rains in India will start subsiding in the next two days, the weather department said Thursday, calming concerns of crop damage due to the monsoon lasting longer than usual. The monsoon usually starts subsiding in the first week of September, but the season has been prolonged by about two weeks …
India will not impose export duty and other restrictions on food purchases by the United Nations World Food Programme, joining a global initiative to tackle scarcity of food and volatility in its prices. “The issue was discussed at the G-20 and the government will support the proposal,” a finance ministry …
The size of the State's 12th five year plan (2012-17) is expected to touch Rs two lakh crore - double that of the previous plan - with a thrust on agriculture, education, health and infrastructure. The State’s 11th plan (2007-12) size was pegged by the Planning Commission at Rs 1.01 …
