In many South Asian countries, rice straw burning is a common practice, resulting in bad air quality. In addition, agricultural production is often characterised by the overuse of natural resources as well as gender…
DLG-Agritechnica 2023, held from the 12th to the 18th November, welcomed 470,000 visitors from 149 countries at the fairgrounds in Hanover, Germany. The guiding theme of this year’s show was “Green Productivity”. …
Current challenges in agriculture such as food security, climate change and others were at the centre of the 6th International Rice Congress (IRC 2023), which took place in October 2023, in the capital of the…
Today’s grain production could be maintained with a significantly lower global level of overall fertiliser if the application of nitrogen fertiliser was evenly distributed across the areas under cultivation. This is…
Use of pesticides is rapidly rising in many parts of Africa. While farmers cheer them as powerful substitutes for manual weed and pest control, the precarious institutional environment has been resulting in the…
Balancing the planet’s resource base with the growing nutritional demands of an expanding human population in a just, equitable and inclusive way, while simultaneously reducing GHG emissions from the world’s food system,…
This report offers an in-depth exploration of the vulnerabilities, challenges, and transformative potential of Africa’s food systems. A combined response is needed from governments, the private sector, communities, and…
A new study finds that standalone solar photovoltaic irrigation systems have the potential to meet more than a third of the water needs for crops in small-scale farms across sub-Saharan Africa.
For many smallholders living in remote districts in Nepal, it is difficult to access agricultural inputs and agronomic advice. Therefore, there have been numerous public and private interventions to change this state of…
A two-year comparative study in Andhra Pradesh, titled "Natural Farming Through a Wide-Angle Lens: True Cost Accounting Study of Community Managed Natural Farming", has found that community-based natural farming offers…
10 Years of ProSoil: Sharing knowledge on good practices in soil protection and rehabilitation through the WOCAT Global Database on Sustainable Land Management
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