An Eye on Methane: the road to radical transparency takes stock of progress harnessing an imminent data revolution that can accelerate methane reduction on a global scale. Credible data has the potential to deliver the transparency needed for rapid climate action, but only if reconciled, integrated and put into the …
LAST week, many leading figures in business, government and civil society gathered in Davos, Switzerland, for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. And Kraft Foods was there, listening and sharing what we have learnt, and urging action to tackle three of the greatest challenges facing the world today: …
Something is stirring in paddy fields across India. New seeds, new crop management techniques and newly minted food security policies are about to hit the countryside. Not all of the changes that are being forged in Krishi Bhawan, headquarters of the Union agriculture ministry, in the top-flight research institutions across …
In more ways than one the calendar year 2010 would go down the memory lane as a watershed year for the food and agriculture front in the country which recorded unprecedented growth rate of 4.4 per cent in July-September quarter but by December unprecedented price hike of essential food items …
Udaipur: President Pratibha Patil on Wednesday said the country needed another Green Revolution as the population growth is set to increase on already scarce resources.
This report examines where, why, and how past interventions in agricultural development have succeeded. It carefully reviews the policies, programs, and investments in agricultural development that have reduced hunger and poverty across Africa, Asia, and Latin America over the past half century. The 19 successes included here are described in …
The Asian green revolution trebled grain yields through agrochemical intensification of monocultures. Associated environmental costs have subsequently emerged. A rapidly changing world necessitates sustainability principles be developed to reinvent these technologies and test them at scale. The need is particularly urgent in Africa, where ecosystems are degrading and crop yields …
Indo-UAE friendship got a new colour today with Indian President Pratibha Devisingh Patil urging industrialists from the two countries to partner in the initiative to
Overexploitation of groundwater coupled with rising temperatures may push agriculture to stagnation, says a satellite study mapping yields from 1982 to 2006 Amit Bhattacharya | TNN The monsoon bounty this year is expected to put the smiley back on the agriculture output graph. The government has quickly announced a target …
This new report by Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP) focuses on agriculture as the most vulnerable sector to climate change. It discusses how abrupt changes in the weather are threatening the livelihood of people in the Asia-Pacific region mainly small-scale and subsistence farmers and landless workers, …
MUMBAI: Appealing to the farmers and policy-makers not to emulate the Punjab model of Green Revolution, some farmers from Punjab said here on Sunday that the revolution had completely ruined the State.
This document is developed by GRAIN and the Pesticides Eco-Alternatives Centre (PEAC) to raise Chinese farmers' awareness about the broad historical context of industrial agriculture, and how it paved the way for the introduction of modern varieties of crops and agricultural technologies.
Sarajit Majumdar The second green revolution could be led by agribusiness multinationals and cause destruction of biodiversity Food standardisation and other features are aimed at meeting West- centric tastes of the urban elite and the middle class, provided by corporate retailers. So, domestic and foreign direct investors are vying for …
Guwahati, Sept. 21: The Centre has agreed to include Assam in the green revolution scheme and has asked the state to prepare an action plan. Bihar, Jharkhand, eastern Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Orissa and West Bengal are included under the scheme, called Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana programme.
The endemic of chronic renal failure (CRF) emerged in 2002 in the farming provinces of Sri Lanka. An estimate of dietary cadmium intake was between 15 and 28 microg/kg body weight per week. The mean urinary cadmium in patients diagnosed with stage 5 kidney failure was 7.6 microg/g creatinine and …
