Agriculture

Participation in OCOP is said to be a great opportunity for all countries in the region to improve rural conditions through agricultural advances. (Image source: Adobe Stock)

Countries across Asia and the Pacific are joining an initiative to promote and showcase the ‘best of the best’ of their special agricultural products – a move designed to ensure a high level of participation from smallholders to producers to exporters and others all along the value chain

Nemo’s Garden is a startup focused on sustainable underwater-based cultivation of crops (Image credit: OceanReefGroup 2022)

Nemo’s Garden, a startup focused on sustainable underwater cultivation of crops, has come up with an underwater greenhouse

The report aims to identify change priorities to address financing issues in the agri-SME sector. (Image source: Adobe Stock)

A new report has been published by the Commercial Agriculture for Smallholders and Agribusiness (CASA) programme, titled ‘The state of the agri-SME sector – bridging the finance gap’

According to EASAC, the use of chemical pesticides can be reduced by using biological alternatives. (Image source: Adobe Stock)

A new report released by Europe’s National Academies of Sciences provides evidence that a transformation to regenerative agriculture holds promising keys to reducing climate risks while providing the growing world population with food and enhancing biodiversity

The first phase of the current plan focuses on aspects such as green agricultural development, modernisation and rural infrastructure development among others. (Image source: Adobe Stock)

The World Bank’s board of executive directors has recently approved a US$320mn loan to promote green agriculture and rural development in China’s Southwest region

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