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Insightful Reports

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‘Sweeping’ changes expected in North Korean agricultural sector

Kim Jong Un, the dictator-leader of North Korea has recently enacted some reforms in the agricultural sector of the country. Farmers will now be able to keep the surplus of their food to sell or exchange in barter, instead of selling it to the state. Read more here.

October 1, 2012

Nigeria: US to invest in the country’s agricultural sector

The US will be investing an amount totaling US$ 6 million in the agricultural sector of Nigeria. One of the outcomes of this investment would be two plants to be established for sugar cane production. Read more here.

October 1, 2012

FAO helps poor farming households in Zimbabwe

FAO, in conjunction with DFID and AusAID has committed itself to helping the poor farming households in Zimbabwe. A total of US$11.5 million will be spent on a relief programme to provide farm input for the the poor farming households. Read more here.

October 1, 2012

Haiti, fish farming and the Clinton Foundation’s help

This post talks about Dr Valentine Abe’s recognition of the potential for fish farming and fishing agriculture in Haiti, where lakes are severely overfished. A successful first hatchery made it clear that this could provide a means to sustainable livelihood to many Haitians and this is when he received help […]

October 1, 2012

India: Canara Bank makes Indian agriculture viable

Encouraging the idea that agriculture in India is not as low-productive as it has been for hundreds of years, Canara Bank, a commercial bank in India is launching a dedicated line of financial products and services to business projects which integrate farming into a viable and profitable business project, involving […]

October 1, 2012

Salarying Indian farmers

If there is one thing that is best known about the smallholders in the developing world, it is their inability to manage their income and make it run until the next harvest. Combine this with the problem of explotative middle men in the agriculture value chain in India, and the […]

October 1, 2012

Africa: A new type of agriculture to save Africa’s exhausted soils

Researchers at the Washington State University recently made a case for a new type of agriculture practice which can be practiced by small holders, and which can replenish the African soil, exhausted by heavy fertilizer and pesticide use, and bound by low yields. This system is called ‘perenniation’. Read more […]

October 1, 2012

India: Agriculture back in focus

With a slower growth rate, the downward pull caused by failed agriculture on the country’s GDP is not neutralized by higher exports, rising investments and fiscal action, as it usually was in the past. As a result agricuture in now at the centre of scrutinity to fix the growth rate […]

October 1, 2012

Mexico: Rural communities rich in resources, poor in capital

Communities in the rural parts of Mexico, especially in Oaxaca, one of the poorest states in Mexico are rich in resources but poor by means of capital. Natural disasters play havoc with the lands, farms and produce of the poor, and no help is available to train them in climate […]