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 …
To protect consumers from foodborne illness, produce farmers should wait 24 hours after a rain or irrigating their fields to harvest crops, according to new research published in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Rain or irrigation creates soil conditions that are more hospitable to Listeria monocytogenes, which when ingested …
Global food prices will continue to decline over the next decade as a result of a combination of strong crop yields, higher productivity and slower growth in global demand says this new report released by OECD-FAO. Strong crop yields, higher productivity and slower growth in global demand should contribute to …
Climate change could spark catastrophic food shortages and lead to global societal collapse if society continues on its current course, according to a new scientific model. The model, developed by Anglia Ruskin University's Global Sustainability Institute, which does not take account of policy shifting in reaction to events and crises, …
Brewing for many years, India's agrarian crisis is now reaching its tipping point due to "vague" government policies, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) today said and warned if predictions on El Nino turns out to be true the economic damages will be severe. A new report of 'Down To …
Brewing for many years, India's agrarian crisis is now reaching its tipping point due to "vague" government policies, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) today said and warned if predictions on El Nino turns out to be true the economic damages will be severe. A new report of ‘Down To …
Australia has slashed forecast production levels for wheat, cotton and other agricultural commodities in 2015-16 as the El Nino weather phenomenon grips the country and dries out farmland. Meteorologists warn the current El Nino, the second in five years, will persist until the end of the year. "We should see …
A rice glut that sent prices slumping more than a year ago is shrinking, just as El Nino arrives to parch paddies across Asia. Global inventories were already heading for an eight-year low, including stockpiles so spoiled that top exporter Thailand may sell most for industrial use. Now, the first …
Sherpur, Jun 11 (UNB)-Production of BRRI-dhan 63, a fine quality high-yielding rice variety newly developed by Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI), has raised great optimism among farmers in Sherpur as well as agricultural scientists, after it has been released to farmers for growing in Boro season. ‘Soru balam’ or BRRI-dhan …
The worldwide demand for legumes, one of the world’s most important agricultural food crops, is growing; at the same time, their production has been adversely affected by drought. In an Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis research paper published today in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers provide information that could help agricultural …
The prices of major food commodities continued their downward trajectory through May as cereal prices dropped amid an increasingly favourable forecast for this year's harvests, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) confirmed today. According to the UN agency's monthly Food Price Index, the May 2015 forecast for the …
KATHMANDU, June 4: Around 1.1 million people in quake-hit districts are in highly food-insecure situation, a government survey reveals. A household food security survey, which was conducted by the Ministry of Agricultural Development (MoAD) between May 8 and May 20 in 11 quake-affected districts, revealed that granaries of quake-hit families …
Ugandans continue to pay more money for goods and services as a result of the drought and a weak currency, according to official figures. In May, headline inflation, which measures changes in prices of goods and services, rose to 4.9 per cent from 3.6 per cent in April, as a …
A report by the World Bank, entitled 'Ending Poverty and Hunger by 2030: An Agenda for the Global Food System' calls for pre-emptive action from governments across the continent to increase agricultural productivity. The year 2030 is of significant importance as it is the year in which Namibia aims to …
Indian scientists have completed final trials of a genetically modified (GM) variety of mustard and will submit a report to the government in a month, hoping to win over stiff opposition to make it the country's first commercial transgenic food crop. A powerful farmers group close to Prime Minister Narendra …
As concern remains over the need to convert millions of acres of crop land to meet the ever-increasing biofuel demand, a new study has found pumpkins could provide the answer to sharing between food and fuel. Researchers understand that biomass feedstocks will need to come from many different sources, including …
Observant aliens visiting Earth and studying its civilizations would probably be pretty obsessed with wheat. They couldn’t fail to note how staggeringly many people we feed with the crop on this planet. “Wheat is one of the main staple crops in the world and provides 20% of daily protein and …
China plans to increase its oversight of genetically modified crops due to heightened public concern over Beijing's ability to keep illegal GM products out of the food chain. Beijing supports genetically modified organisms (GMO) technology, which it sees as crucial to future food security. But critics have alleged the technology …
A Parliamentary panel stated here on Monday that the Food Ministry had a shortage of Rs. 81,000 crore to make subsidy payments and urged the Centre to take action. It also expressed concern regarding non-implementation of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) that was ratified in July 2013 but has …
Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development has projected low farm yields following its 2014/15 second Agricultural Production Estimate survey. Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, Dr Allan Chiyembekeza told Tuesday in Lilongwe today that the decline is mainly attributed to floods and prolonged dry spell that the country …
BEIJING - China is confident the nation's "rice bowl" will be firmly held in its own hands, an industry report said on Monday. The country will remain self-sufficient in producing its main food crops and food consumption will have guaranteed safety by the end of the next decade, according to …
