From Danielle Nierenberg This October, Food Tank is celebrating national Farm-to-School Month in the United States. In the U.S. alone, over 42,000 schools are changing their communities with farm-to-school programs, impacting the lives of over 23 million students. And schools…
Farmers of the district are expecting bumper yield of Aman paddy this year due to favorable weather and availability of agri inputs.
Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) has developed two new high yielding rice varieties having higher yield potentials over the two most popular existing rice varieties in the country.
In Lilian Gómez’s house, nestled in the mountains of eastern El Salvador, the darkness of the night was barely relieved by the faint, trembling flames of a pair of candles, just like in the houses of her neighbours. Until now.
San Francisco, Oct 7 (AP/UNB) — California voters are right to think they already weighed in on how big cages should be for egg-laying hens.
The government on Sunday announced a Tk 79.99 crore incentive for 6,90,970 farmers across the country, aiming to increase the production of 11 varieties of crops.
Mymensingh, Oct 5 – An Agri leaders’ summit program held at Syed Nazrul Islam building of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) on Friday at 10 am. The theme of the program is “Meet the Agri Leaders and wake up with a…
Experts have urged the rural people to start sheep farming commercially using modern methods and technology to meet nutritional demand and produce valuable wool to help develop wool-based textile in the country.
Geneva – Seventeen years of long and arduous negotiations later, peasants and other people working in rural areas are only a step away from having a UN Declaration that could defend and protect their rights to land, seeds, biodiversity, local…
Despite women being key figures in agriculture and food security, gender inequality is holding back progress towards ending hunger, poverty, and creating sustainable food systems.
When vulnerable young children in India eat foods prepared with wheat enriched with zinc, they spend significantly fewer days sick with pneumonia and vomiting, shows a study published this week. Diets in India commonly lack sufficient zinc and consequently, nearly…
Dhaka, Oct 1 – Agriculture takes up almost 40% of the planet’s ice-free land surface, accounts for 70% of the freshwater used in the world, and produces about 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions. It is also the single biggest driver of…
Farmers in the district are passing their days in deep frustrations due to widespread attack of stem borer, locally known as majrapoka, on their Aman croplands.
Dhaka, Sept 27 – Livelihood of people based on agricultural productions has turned commercial due to the introduction of modernized technology from traditional production system in the country, Matia Chowdhury has said.
Geneva, 25 Sep (Kanaga Raja) — The Government of Argentina should promote family farming as a high priority in order to achieve the goal of adequate and healthy food for all Argentinians, a United Nations human rights expert has said.
In early September 2018, about 2,800 delegates from 79 countries and high-level dignitaries, including current and former heads of states, international agencies, CEOs of global corporations and youth entrepreneurs, and techies involved in agriculture gathered in Kigali for this year’s…
With over 550 million people in Asia-Pacific predicted to move to cities by 2030, the food industry faces immense pressure to provide affordable and nutritious food that doesn’t cost the Earth.
Rashida Begum, 45, a resident of Beel Sohar village under Tanore upazila, has been able to break the poverty cycle after finding the way of a better livelihood though self-employment.
In this article, Olivier de Schutter calls for an agroecological revolution to achieve food democracy, which is the ability for people to make real choices about how to produce food, what to produce, and how to eat.
Chapainawabganj, Sept 17 – Farmers of Nachole Upazila in the district are showing more interest in cultivating dragon fruits commercially sensing its profitability and favourable growing condition. The juicy fruit is known as ‘pitaya’ in Thailand and the origin of…
by Sahana Ghosh A study forecasts that in the absence of interventions, groundwater contribution to Ganga river’s water flow would continue diminishing in the summer for the next 30 years. The dwindling of Ganga river would severely affect water available…
Co-Written by Ana Felicien, Christina M. Schiavoni & Liccia Romero Few countries and political processes have been subject to such scrutiny, yet so generally misunderstood, as Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution. This is particularly true today, as the international media…
Cultivation of transplanted Aman paddy cultivation is facing a setback because of a drought-like situation in Rangpur region.
Nearly 48,000 hectares of lands more have been brought under transplanted Aman paddy farming than the target in Rajshahi division comprising eight districts during the current season.
Canal water irrigation has been contributing transplanted Aman paddy in the high Barind tract Gausul Islam, 50, a farmer of Paharpur village under Godgari Upazila of the district, said during the rainless condition, the farmers transplanted paddy and subsequently protected it…
From Danielle NierenbergGreetings from Iowa! This weekend, I’m at Niman Ranch’s 20th Annual Hog Farmer Appreciation Dinner. I’ll have the honour of celebrating the work of amazing farmers like Paul Willis, Rancher and Farmer at Niman Ranch Pork Company. I’ll…
Just having better information about when and for how long it will rain is proving the difference between success and failure among smallholder farmers in southern Zambia. Empowered with timely information about the weather ahead of the 2017/18 farming season,…
Contributing Author: Katherine Walla Food Tank is excited to introduce the podcast “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg.” On the podcast, Nierenberg invites chefs, experts, and activists to outline their ideal food system—and how their projects are making a better food…
At New Delhi’s Savda Ghevra slum settlement, waterborne diseases have become less frequent thanks to solar-powered water ATMs that were installed here as a social enterprise venture three years ago.
By Aimable Twahirwa Kigali, Aug 29 2018 (IPS) – When Telesphore Ruzigamanzi, a smallholder banana farmer from a remote village in Eastern Rwanda, discovered a peculiar yellowish hue on his crop before it started to dry up, he did not…