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The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) produced a video on the Agriculture Technology and Innovation Policy launch. The Policy has ten thematic areas including synergy and MDA alignment; livestock development; knowledge creation, and transfer; rapid mechanization; revitalization of extension service delivery; strengthening value-chains for priority crops; fisheries, and development of marine resources. The project runs through […]

Más (Colombia) published an article stating that the world has had a difficult succession of crises in recent years. The response of some countries, in the face of the pandemic and especially the war in Ukraine, has been to prohibit or limit their food exports, to privilege their compatriots. Globalization, which seeks the free world […]

Krishak Jagat, India’s agriculture newspaper with the largest farmer subscription base, published an article on how the eastern Indo-Gangetic plains (EIGP) have a higher density of rural poverty and food insecurity than any other region. The region’s intensive rice-wheat cropping system has large yield gaps, which are far higher than anywhere in South Asia, coupled […]

Jacaranda FM published an article stating the reality is that climate change is causing problems worldwide, so clever thinking such as urine to feed the world is going to be needed if we are to ensure food security. According to IFPRI: ‘Food security, as defined by the United Nations’ Committee on World Food Security, means […]

The Cable (Nigeria) published an article announcing the six-year national agricultural technology and innovation policy (NATIP) from 2022 to 2027 to enhance agribusiness in the country. The policy also aims to increase resilience and digital agriculture, thereby, promoting agricultural investments.   Bedru Balana, country program leader, IFPRI, said women and youth should be mainstreamed across the […]

Nigerian Tribune published an article stating that the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development with support from the USAID Nigeria Agriculture Policy Activity implemented by IFPRI and Michigan State University (MSU) have launched the new national agriculture policy, National Agricultural Technology and Innovation Policy (NATIP) 2022 – 2027. NATIP is a policy envisioned by […]

Bloomberg published an article on how the world is desperate to replenish grain reserves diminished by trade disruptions in the Black Sea and unfavorable weather in some of the largest growing regions. Droughts throughout the world are having a major impact on food prices globally. A US crop tour revealed the damage done by severe […]

News Agency Nigeria posted an article on the launch of the National Agricultural Technology and Innovation Policy (NATIP) 2022 – 2027.  Agriculture is important to the growth and development of the economy, adding that in 2020, agriculture contributed over 25 percent to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The new policy is a deliberate effort by […]

Monitor (Uganda Edition) published an article stating that August 24 also marks six months since Russia launched its brutal, illegal invasion of the sovereign nation of Ukraine. Since Ukraine’s independence in 1991, a proud, internationally engaged country, and one committed to freedom and the principles of the UN Charter, has emerged. Ukraine has become a […]

Nature published an op-ed by senior scientist Elizabeth Bryan, deputy director of the Environment and Production Technology division Claudia Ringler, and Nicole Lefore, director at the Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture in College Station on how the global effects of the Ukraine war hit girls and women the hardest, exacerbating inequalities. Aid programs must […]