Sustainable Business
FAO Food Price Index down slightly in July
The overall drop after five months of growth reflects a slide in prices for grains and vegetable oils Wheat prices fell in July driven […]
Tag: farming
Education
Self-sufficient Cities May Hold the Key to the Future
Juan Vargas The Pukika Experiment consists of building a self-sufficient city for 3 million people By the end of the century, we’ll need to […]
Data & Reports
The plight of Vaigai river, India
Marianne Furtado de Nazareth A study, a conference, and a field visit along the stretch of the Vaigai river including to the temple town of […]
Environment
Rainwater harvesting brings hope to farmers in Pakistan’s Punjab
Aamir Saeed Punjab’s Small Dams Organisation constructed 20 mini dams during the year 2000 and 2010 to help farmers irrigate more acres of land […]
Climate
Odisha farmers join global mobilization movements to demand a climate deal benefitting Small Farmers
More than three hundred farmers in Nuapada and Bargarh districts of Odisha, India organised a “March To the Crop Field” on the Global Mobilization […]
Sustainable Business
What’s common between bureaucrats salaries, business persons tea and farmer suicides in India?
In the early 1990s, when the new economic policy of reforms was introduced in India, the trickle down theory was more aggressively propagated. Who […]
Education
If everybody hates wasting food, why do we do it (and how can we stop)?
Mary Hoff When it comes to reducing consumer food waste, guilt doesn’t cut it. Here’s what does. Orignially posted atEnsia, magazine showcasing environmental solutions […]
Biodiversity
Improving food security in mountains
Lipy Adhikari Climatic changes have added challenges for agriculture particularly in mountain areas Posted at SixDegrees as part of collaboration with Assam Times to share […]
Aid
Social protection can eradicate hunger: FAO
Poverty among those employed in fisheries remains widespread globally At least 368 million children receive food at school each day In Zambia, a cash-grants program led […]
Food
Malawi’s farm subsidy benefits the poor but doesn’t come cheap
Channing Arndt, United Nations University; James Thurlow, International Food Policy Research Institute, and Karl Pauw, International Food Policy Research Institute Malawi’s farm input subsidy […]
Sustainable Development
Urban farming is booming, but what does it really yield?
By Ensia│Elizabeth Royte City-based agriculture produces 15 to 20 percent of food globally. In the U.S., its benefits go far beyond nutrition. Orignially posted […]
Food
Could traditional plants hold the secret to saving crops from pests?
By Ensia│Rachel Cernansky Researchers build on age-old practices to reduce food loss in Africa Orignially posted at Ensia, magazine showcasing environmental solutions in action. […]
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