Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) is a term that has been coined to position agriculture as vital in mitigating and adapting to climate change. Our previous blog post on the subject reported that agriculture is currently responsible for 70 percent of water use globally, as well as up to 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. As demand
Today’s report from FAO truly shows the huge untapped potential that women farmers hold. In it’s 2010-2011 edition of The State of the Food and Agriculture report, they wrote,
If women in rural areas had the same access to land, technology, financial services, education and markets as men, agricultural production could be increased and the number
Prior to next week’s Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change in the Hague, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation have released a report that calls for a “major transformation of agriculture” to deal with growing food needs in a changing climate.
Climate-Smart Agriculture: Policies, Practices and Financing for Food Security is divided into
CIARD, the global initiative on Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development, has recently launched their new website. The site provides an information hub for institutions and people involved in agricultural research to share information and make their research findings available to a wider public.
The new site follows the CIARD manifesto to establish a
CSIRO, Australia’s national science research agency, have achieved a major breakthrough for wheat farmers in salt-affected areas through developing a salt-tolerant durum wheat that yields 25 per cent more grain than other varieties in saline soils.
High soil salinity is a major environmental issue whose effects can cause difficulties for farmers growing crops in salt-affected areas.
Farming First Press Release in Recognition of International Day of Biological Diversity:
Farming First calls on governments to enable agricultural innovation and empower farmers to safeguard the world’s biodiversity while increasing global food production.
Sustainable agricultural production needs to be achieved through both accelerated research programmes and broader uptake of existing technologies by farmers. Public-private partnerships are key
