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
Agriculture
Exploring underwater farming with the help of technology
Nemo’s Garden, a startup focused on sustainable underwater cultivation of crops, has come up with an underwater greenhouse
Closing the annual financing gap for agri-SMEs
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’
Healthy soil best bet for carbon storage: EASAC
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
Programme to promote agriculture and rural development in China’s Southwest
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