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IISD project published an article on climate change and how the world is getting warmer resulting in a decreasing crop yields and rising food prices are expected to strongly jeopardize the achievement of SDG 2 – ending global hunger. Climate change has consequences for food production worldwide .In times of crisis, countries are inclined to adopt a protectionist stance. For example, in […]

The Daily Star (Bangladesh) published an article on the devastation caused by flooding in the country. According to an IFPRI study, The making of a blue revolution in Bangladesh: Enablers, impacts, and the path ahead for aquaculture, aquaculture, which takes place on 800,000 hectares mainly in ponds, lifted more than 20 lakh people out of poverty between 2000 and […]

MSN published an article on the SDGs and COVID-19. The Covid-19 pandemic has come at a time when societies are already facing many challenges related to inequality, poverty, unemployment, and drought and/or lack of access to water, amongst others. The pandemic will also negatively affect global development objectives, specifically the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). According to […]

Business Day (Nigeria) published an article on how Low level of agricultural mechanisation on farms across the country has continued to limit the capacity of farmers to expand their cultivation areas, perform timely farming operations, and achieve economies of scale in food production.  In Nigeria, a significantly higher proportion of the farming area is still cultivated by hand tools. An […]

Handels Zeitung (Switzerland) published an article on environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors concept is enjoying growing among investors today Popularity. Investors have taken a clear position with their capital: they either want to make a difference with ESG investments, or they think that it will also reward them financially. Or even both. In India, for example, the authorities in […]

Money Control published an article on Exposure to tiny particles found in dust and smoke (particulate matter 10 or PM10), regardless of hygienic practices, increases the risk of adverse child health outcomes, said a survey of 184 Indian cities and towns.PM10 are particles ranging between 2.5 and 10 micrometers and common sources include vehicular exhausts, smoke from fires, […]

Successful Farming published an article explaining new subsidies from the Trump administration. The administration is showering U.S. agriculture with the largest farm supports ever, an estimated $37 billion, chiefly through stopgap programs to mitigate the impact of the pandemic.  As a result, farm income in 2020 would be the highest in seven years, not counting an additional $14 billion in […]

Daily Star (Bangladesh) published an article on how Prolonged and multiple monsoon floods have disrupted cultivation of Aman paddy, which provides around 36 percent of total rice production in the country. Senior Research Fellow and Country Representative Akhter Ahmed stated, “Aman is our second largest staple crop. It covers around 36 percent of our total rice production. But this year many farmers […]

New York Times published an article  on the findings from the study, Evaluation of linear growth at higher altitudes in the journal, Jama Pediatrics. Living at high altitudes may be associated with giving birth to smaller babies who grow more slowly through childhood. Researchers studied 964,299 children in 59 low- and middle-income countries in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Caribbean and Latin America. Among them, […]

Financial Times reported that farmers in the US are in line for record handouts from Washington this year, sparking accusations that Donald Trump is trying to buy the agricultural vote ahead of the November election. China’s imports of farm goods covered by the trade deal were $7.bn at the end of July. Still Beijing and Washington reached […]