Dhaka, Dec 21 – The Cabinet on Monday approved the draft of Bangladesh Agricultural Good Practices Policy, 2020 in order to ensure safe and quality agricultural products by applying good practices in the entire production-to-consumption chain.
Category: Food & nutrition
Tune Food, Nature, Human Rights to Offset Ecological Crises
The COVID-19 pandemic, global warming and the dramatic loss of biological diversity are clear manifestations of the ecological crises that threaten humanity and the planet. The 2020 issue of the Right to Food and Nutrition Watch entitled, “Overcoming ecological crises:…
La Niña Weather Could Endanger Colombia’s Food Security
By Carmen Arroyo NEW YORK, Dec 8 2020 (IPS) – After ten years without a strong La Niña weather phenomenon in Colombia, the climate pattern, coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic, could create a vacuum in food production and supply. Multilateral…
German support to IFAD to help avert COVID-19 food crisis
Rome, 7 December 2020 – In the face of a looming food crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Germany has committed funds to the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to help ensure small-scale farmers can continue growing food…
High price at harvest would sustain rice production
Prof. Dr. Md. Jafar Ullah Along the last three years, farmers have been getting agonized from serious deprivation of fair price as rice price in the market got down starting since August 2016. This drastic price decline discouraged many of…
Contribution of life in soil remains largely underestimated
4 December 2020 – Even though soil organisms play a crucial role in boosting food production, enhancing nutritious diets, preserving human health, and combating climate change, the real contribution of these tiny life forms remains largely underestimated, the UN agriculture…
How to Reap the Benefits of Food as Medicine
By Busani Bafana BULAWAYO, Dec 2 2020 (IPS) – COVID-19 has magnified global food insecurity and is driving unhealthy eating and worsening malnutrition, food experts say. They have called for deliberate global investment in food as medicine on the back…
How Do We Transition to a More Sustainable Food System?
Danielle Nierenberg In advance of tomorrow’s “Resetting the Food System” Summit co-hosted by the Barilla Foundation and Food Tank, we asked 30+ speakers to share inspiring insight on how to make the transition to a more sustainable food system. You…
Securing Freedom to Eat
By Busani Bafana BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Dec 1 2020 (IPS) – For Zimbabwean organic farmer, Elizabeth Mpofu, access to healthy food is liberation. Millions of people across the world go to bed hungry. Scores do not have access to nutritious food…
COVID-19 an opportunity to build resilience in food systems
By Mantoe Phakathi MBABANE, Dec 1 2020 (IPS) – The Barilla Centre for Food and Nutrition (BCFN) has appealed to the United Nations to educate citizens to use their roles as consumers to create a momentum for change. This was…
Sustainable steps help farmers gain positively amid Covid-19
By Stella Paul HYDERABAD, India, Nov 26 2020 (IPS) – As India continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic and a growing number of deaths, farmers here have been fighting a battle of their own against volatile pricing, uncertain demand…
Does WFP Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize?
By Jan Lundius ”If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, who am I? And if not now, when? That which is hateful to you, do not do to your…
Junk Agroecology Greenwashes Destructive Agribusiness Agenda
A recent report, “Junk Agroecology: The corporate capture of agroecology for a partial ecological transition without social justice” examines three major worldwide public-private initiatives driven by Nestle, Pepsico, Cargill, Unilever, and the World Economic Forum: (i) The Sustainable Agriculture Initiative,…
Farmers will (again) feed the world
By Danielle Nierenberg NEW YORK, Nov 23 2020 (IPS) – Wealthier countries struggling to contain the widening COVID-19 pandemic amid protests over lockdowns and restrictions risk ignoring an even greater danger out there – a looming global food emergency.
‘Act urgently’ to stave off catastrophic famine in Yemen
20 November 2020 – Yemen is in “imminent danger of the worst famine the world has seen for decades”, the UN chief warned in a statement released on Friday, calling for urgent action on the part of the international community…
Global Outrage as FAO Plans to Partner with Pesticide Co
Hundreds of civil society and Indigenous Peoples organizations call on the UN agency to renounce planned alliance with CropLife International
25 Organizations Building a More Sustainable Fishing Industry
In Celebration of World Fisheries Day Danielle Nierenberg Global consumption of fish and fish products has skyrocketed as eaters seek more environmentally-friendly alternatives to red meat and poultry. This is good news for greenhouse gas emissions, according to the World…
Heavy rains cloud prospects of Boro rice cultivation in BD
Dhaka, Nov 18 – These days, farmers in the haor areas (depressions) of Sunamganj district are worried. This is because they have not yet been able to prepare boro paddy seedbeds as breaches caused by heavy downpour in water channels…
Rising hunger, ‘an outrage in a world of plenty’: Guterres
16 November 2020 – “Hunger is an outrage in a world of plenty”, the UN chief told the governing body of the Organization’s food agency on Monday, highlighting the important role of food security in cementing peace.
€300 mn loan from AFD to IFAD for millions of small farmers
Rome, 13 November 2020 – In an effort to tackle the devastating impact of climate change on rural hunger and poverty, the French development agency, Agence Française de Développement (AFD), today signed a €300 million loan to the UN’s International…
Organizations Reviving Restaurants for Post-Pandemic Success
Danielle Nierenberg There’s no doubt that businesses across the globe have been deeply affected by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Perhaps none more than restaurants and bars. According to the Independent Restaurant Coalition, 5.9 million jobs were lost between…
Climate finance neglects small-scale farmers – new report
Rome, 12 November 2020 – Only 1.7 per cent of climate finance – a fraction of what is needed – goes to small-scale farmers in developing countries despite their disproportionate vulnerability to the impacts of climate change, according to a…
Public Dev Banks’ bigger role to tackle hunger, poverty eyed
Rome, 11 November 2020 – For the first time in history, today 13 Public Development Banks (PDBs) made a joint commitment to strengthen investments in food and agriculture in the context of a global pandemic and a changing climate, with…
Can Curry Help Your Diet?
It’s hard to deny how alluring curry can be to staple South/ South East Asian cuisines, even if it can be one of the most sinful things out there. The classic fish or chicken curry is undoubtedly decadent and having…
Sweet Potato Health Benefits: Organic Affordable Super Food
The second wave of COVID19 is knocking on the door. Many countries have already experienced an increased rate of viral infection. The authorized vaccine is yet to release. Now we must focus on healthy eating to strengthen our immunity system.…
Bangladesh promoting fish farming in cages: Minister
Dhaka, Oct 31 – Fisheries and Livestock Minister SM Rezaul Karim on Saturday said the government seeks to promote fish farming in cages, known as cage culture, in the country.
Can Agroecology Feed the World?
By Elena L. Pasquini ROME, Oct 23 2020 (IPS) – Producing food and ensuring nutrition security, protecting the environment and restoring biodiversity, building sustainable and fair food systems: That’s the promise of agroecology.
Acute malnutrition: A generation of Yemeni children, at risk
27 October 2020 – Yemeni children are suffering acute malnutrition at unprecedented rates as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis grinds on and funding falls far short of what is needed to offset the effects of conflict and economic collapse, UN…
Prices of daily essentials soar in kitchen markets
Although the government claims that the country has enough food reserves, the prices of daily essentials are rising in the kitchen markets, triggering sufferings to people of fixed and low income brackets in the metropolis.
Govt corporation TCB to start selling potato at Tk 25 a kg
Dhaka, Oct. 18 – Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi on Sunday said the Trading Corporation Bangladesh (TCB) will start selling potatoes at Tk 25 per kg through truck sales.