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ZDNet.com posted an article on the latest argument favoring 5G–that the next generation of information and/or communications technology will support a new wave of productivity in the workplace. That wave will bring forth a new foundation for cost efficiency and commerce that benefits, directly or indirectly, everyone in the world’s broader economy. Radio and network equipment company Nokia has released a report […]

Adams on Agriculture featured a podcast segment on agriculture sales to China (phase 1 trade deal with Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber.  Glauber said that “these are great purchases and it’s great to see us back on track. it would be great to get back to 2017 levels; we’re a long way from there, but certainly, with the outstanding […]

CGTN America (Chinese Government) broadcasted a brief story on the radio program Global Business (video) on the situation with agriculture and trade between the U.S. and China as the U.S. moves closer to the presidential election on November 3. How has agriculture been affected by the coronavirus? Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber stated that processing and manufacturing […]

Ilbolive (Italy) published an article on agricultural research and highlighted the Ceres2030 project. Ceres2030 works around eight priority issues and puts in place sophisticated automated analysis tools, in other words, artificial intelligence, to identify the hundreds of thousands of published researches in the agronomic, environmental field, geopolitical and economic that provide data, working hypotheses, innovative solutions and so on to […]

Nicaragua Today published an article on the latest meeting of the Regional Fund for Agricultural Technologies. IFPRI along with other major development organizations (Inter-American Development Bank IDB, International Center for Tropical Agriculture CIAT, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization FAO, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture IICA, and the Brazilian Company of Agricultural Research EMBRAPA) participated in the […]

Easy Money (China) published an article that discusses the integration of urban and rural areas. The strategy to integrate requires overall planning and scientific measures. The 12th CAE R-IFPRI International Academic Conference, jointly sponsored by China Agricultural University, IFPRI, and Southwest University School of Economics and Management conducted discussions and exchanges on the theme of “Deep Integration of […]

Herald (Nigeria) posted an article reporting on President Muhammadu Buhari’s request that Nigerians abide strictly by COVID-19 protocols as the country cannot afford a fresh lockdown. The total lockdown that lasted five weeks caused Nigeria’s GDP to suffer a 34.1 percent loss, amounting to USD 16 billion, with two-thirds of the losses coming from the services sector, according […]

Rinnovabili.it (Italy) posted an article about a new platform from FAO. The platform contains data and information from reports and studies measuring food loss and waste, at every stage of the value chain. To monitor food loss and waste, FAO examined available literature and collected data and information from different reports and sources, including international organizations such as […]

Nigerian Tribune posted an article on the GM Cowpea and that the Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology (OFAB) has stated that Nigeria could earn up to $638 million from the export of its genetically modified Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) grain, the insect Pod-Borer Resistant (PBR) cowpea. Country Director of OFAB, Rose Gidado explained that the OFAB’s prediction is based on a […]

Phys Org published an article stating that a new study finds that small farms in the developing world do not perform better than large ones if costs and labor are factored in rather than just crop production. Since the 1960s, researchers have consistently found that in developing countries crop yields per hectare drop as farms increase in size. […]