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August 31, 2012
India: Farmer in India launches new onion variety
Balwan Singh of Haryana took 17 painstaking years developing a variety of onion that yields 30 tonnes per hectare, as against the common variety that yields about 20 tonnes per hectare. It has a longer shelf life and hence reduces storage related woes for smallscale farmers. He has recently been […]
August 31, 2012
India’s monsoons fall on dead crops
Rains this season in India came two months late, destroying crops across the country. Now that the rains have started, it seems they are too late to save the crops in India. Read more here.
August 31, 2012
Argentina to help fill the soya gap
In the coming season, the ‘grain powerhouse’ Argentina plans to produce a record soya output, thereby helping fill the supply gaps left by droughts in America and hence prevent a global food price crisis. Read more here.
August 31, 2012
Water for wealth and food security
This report states that smallscale irrigation schemes could potentially protect millions of farmers in South Asia and SSA (sub-Saharan Africa). Notwithstanding climatic conditions smallscale irrigation could increase yields by up to 300 per cent in some cases and enormously increase household incomes. Read the report here.
August 31, 2012
FAO: Water integral for food security, food prices must be manahed by the G20
According to Jose Graziano Da Silva, director-general of FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) global food security is a function of availability of water, and that there is no food without water. And hence, there must be an increase in innovations and businesses that scale food security […]
August 31, 2012
Tackling food wastage through social enterprise model
Jenny Dawson quit her lucrative fund management job to manage the notorious condition of food wastage in the UK. She runs a chutney and jam company called ‘Rubies in the Rubble’ which uses produce from farmers market that would otherwise be thrown away to make her […]
August 31, 2012
What one must know about food security in SSA (sub-Saharan Africa)
SSA has immense potential for agriculture, and can potentially produce enough to feed its people, yet the region performs poorly in rankings. See the overall food security parameters for different African countries here.
August 31, 2012
India: Starving slum dwellers dig up and eat rotten grain buried by FCI
1,206 bags of PDS rice belonging to the FCI (Food Corporation of India) were supposed to feed the poor but instead got wrapped in red-tape tussles between the railway and other authorities, and were ultimately buried after being rotten. However, they are now being dug up […]
August 31, 2012
Poor in India starve as politicians rob US$14.5 billion of food
According to data compiled by the Bloomberg, as many as 900 million Indians eat less than government-recommended minimums and many more are starving, even as government godowns near their respective villages bulge with wheat and rice which ultimately rot. Read more about the alarming statistics uncovered […]
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