Tag: agriculture

In a new study, researchers said that rapid development of unexpected drought, called flash drought, could severely affect agricultural and ecological systems with ripple effects that extend even further.

Empowering women and ensuring gender equality in agrifood systems reduces hunger, boosts the economy, and reinforces resilience to shocks like climate change and COVID-19 pandemic, according to new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

Almost half of the world’s population live in households linked to agrifood systems,with the largest population found in Asia, according to a...

As the world struggles to nourish its burgeoning population, sustainable agrifood systems will be impossible to achieve without broader socioeconomic and environmental...

The shrinking value of currencies of most developing economies is driving up food and fuel prices, which ultimately could deepen the food...

With around 10 million hectares lost to deforestation each year, mainly for agricultural expansion, main-streaming biodiversity in production forests is of paramount...

When COVID 19 disrupted agricultural labour, supply chains and farmers’ access to credit and markets in India, the pandemic did not push...

Apart from fertilizers and water, what else is needed for a better agriculture yield? A new study shows that if air pollution...

With increasing uncertainty over the world food security leading to fragmenting global agrifood markets and magnifying hunger threats, experts call for a...

With Agrifood system emissions accounting for 21 to 37 percent of the total anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, environmentalists and experts called...