Laura Owings Demand for phone-based agricultural services has shot up almost 60 per cent across Asia and Africa this year, but many services struggle to raise the funds to survive longer than a couple of years. This means small scale farmers lose access to much-needed services and information, while promising small- and medium-sized agribusiness enterprises… Continue reading Start-ups ring the changes in farming phone-tech
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Agriculture has big role to play in curbing greenhouse gas emissions: 2016 State of Food & Agriculture report
Rapid action needed to put smallholders and food systems on sustainable paths: FAO ONE-FIFTH OF GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS ARE GENERATED BY AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND LAND-USE CHANGE The pledge to eradicate hunger and poverty must go hand in hand with rapid transformations of farming and food systems to cope with a warmer world, FAO said today… Continue reading Agriculture has big role to play in curbing greenhouse gas emissions: 2016 State of Food & Agriculture report
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