The world is currently experiencing a historic food crisis. High fertiliser prices are part of the problem. In addition to the necessary short-term aid measures, the crisis ought to be made use of to develop and…
The impacts of the Ukraine crisis on food prices world-wide have highlighted just how globalised the commodity flows have also become in the agrifood sector. This is of no benefit to most farmers, our author maintains,…
The global pesticide market is constantly growing and just a handful of corporations share it out between them. Now manufacturers are making ever stronger inroads into countries of the Global South, where pesticides are…
A web-based platform predicts African crop yields. The aim is to close Africa’s agricultural data gap and support effective decision-making and crisis planning.
Mechanical weeding and reduced fertiliser use helps ecosystems and boosts profits in industrial oil palm compared with conventional management, a new study shows.
Farmers in Kuttanad, in India’s southern state of Kerala, say that frequent flooding, being witnessed increasingly since 2018, has started telling upon their resilience of practising farming in an area lying below the…
The Board of Directors of the Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism (AFFM) has committed to mobilising funds for the implementation of the AFFM Strategic Plan 2022 - 2028 to improve the availability and appropriate use…
Decarbonising the production of synthetic nitrogen fertilisers can have the twin benefits of reducing both the industry's CO₂ emissions and its reliance on fossil fuel imports. But is such a process at all possible, and…
Switzerland and Ghana have signed a climate protection project to offset the CO2 emissions of the federal administration. This is the first climate protection project in the world to be implemented abroad within the…
Locally-relevant knowledge on agroecological and organic agricultural practices is a key ingredient for a successful transition to a sustainable food system. That is why the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture…
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