A new report titled “Girls Grow: A Vital Force in Rural Economies” from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs has called for girls and women to be prepared to become “major stakeholders in agriculture and natural resource management”.
The report identifies girls as key to unlocking the full potential of agricultural development in developing countries, and
We have won a Digital Communication Award for our interactive infographic “The Story of Agriculture and the Green Economy”.
We wanted to take some of the existing data on agriculture and food security and create a beautiful and engaging infographic.
The infographic is built up of 17 different graphics, all of which have been designed so they
The International Food and Agriculture Trade Policy Council (IPC) have released a new paper in their Policy Focus series looking at the future of direct payments in the US and EU.
Direct payments, or agricultural subsidies, are used as a means of phasing out agricultural market intervention in the form of maintaining high commodity prices and
The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development has released a study on policy coherence within the field of Agriculture and Rural Development (ARD) “Platform Knowledge Piece 1: Policy Coherence for Agriculture and Rural Development”.
The report explores the need for policy coherence to make sure that policies for development do not contradict one another but rather
A recent report by the Agriculture and Fisheries department of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) titled the ‘Agricultural Progress and Poverty Reduction Synthesis Report’ claims that achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving global poverty by 2015 looks increasingly likely.
The report’s authors found that increases in income earned from farming
A report published recently by the US Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service entitled “International Food Security Assessment 2011-21” lays out predictions for global Food Security over the forthcoming decade.
The study found that, despite global food commodity prices, strong domestic food production and low price transmission from global to domestic markets contributed to a decline
