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Mozambique’s agricultural fortunes rest on a choice between Obama and Annan

Mozambique is a development paradox. Rural poverty is increasing despite high growth rates and billions of dollars in aid. Now the country has been targeted by two contrasting models of agricultural development. The Barack Obama model was backed at the G8, while the Kofi Annan model was proposed at the AFP (African […]

August 11, 2012

Could Africa hold the answers to America’s drought woes?

The world’s poorest continent could offer clues to how America’s farmers might cope with a hotter, drier climate, leading agriculture experts say. In the African Sahel, farmers have successfully fought back an expanding Sahara and turned once dry, uncultivated scrub into highly productive farmland. Read more here.

August 11, 2012

India: Investment in farming at highest level in decades

Indian agriculture is witnessing a silent but significant change which could potentially alter the fundamental structure of farming in the country. According to available data, the share of investment in agriculture as percentage of farm GDP has climbed from around 16 per cent in 2007-08 to 20.3 per cent in […]

August 11, 2012

Bangladesh: Flood tolerant paddy farming becomes popular

The cultivation of flood-tolerant variety paddies has already become popular among the farmers after repeated successes they achieved in recent years ushering in a new era in the country’s agriculture sector and food security. Read more here.

August 11, 2012

Global rice production to fall due to low rainfall in India

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recently said that global rice paddy production for 2012 is expected to be lower than originally expected, owing to below normal monsoon rains in India (read here and here). The production is expected to total 724.5 million tonnes – a 7.8 million tonne […]

August 11, 2012

IFPRI: US drought could pinch the world poor

Drought in the U.S. farm belt may result in higher prices for poor people around the world, according to IFPRI. The head of IFPRI also recommended a halt to the ethanol production from corn both in the US and the UK, so as to help relieve the pressures on both […]

August 11, 2012

Chinese invested agriculture benefits poverty stricken families in Africa

Farmers in Zambia, who have signed a contract with China-Africa Cotton Corporation end up living better lives by planting cotton for the company, and getting more monetary returns that their other counterparts. Read more here.

August 11, 2012

India: Punjab dairy farming model exemplary for other states

The Progressive Dairy Farmer, an association of farmers with about 6,000 members, after experiencing success in Punjab are all set to promote commercial dairy farming in other dairy farming states as well. The association has formed the All India Progressive Dairy Farmers Association and has plans to provide dairy farmers […]

August 11, 2012

Relief work saves 1.2 million people in the Horn of Africa

According to Plan International, a relief and child welfare international organization, its timely intervention in the food crisis that is continually exacerbating in Africa, has saved about 1.2 million people from hunger and starvation. Read more here.