Agriculture

FAO, Japan collaborate to fight food insecurity in Myanmar

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today announced that it has successfully delivered emergency assistance to more than six thousand rural households across Rakhine State, a region of Myanmar where nearly half the population is engaged in the agriculture sector

ERL: half of world's calories is produced by small farms

ERL estimates that more than 50 per cent of the worlds food calories are produced in regions where the average farm size is less than five HA. (Image source: Mwanasimba/Commons)

A study published in Environmental Research Letter (ERL) estimates that more than 50 per cent of the worlds food calories are produced in regions where the average farm size is less than five hectares, particularly in South and East Asia

Wheat rust continues, new races found in Central Asia, Europe and Africa

Wheat leaf rust on wheat. (Image source: public domain/Commons)

Wheat rust, a family of fungal diseases that can cause crop losses of up to 100 percent in untreated susceptible wheat, is making further advances in Europe, Africa, and Asia, according to two new studies produced by scientists in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

G20 farm ministers discuss protecting water supplies

World leaders at the G20 summit last year. (Image source: Kremlin/Commons)

Greater global efforts should be taken to safeguard precious world water supplies to secure food production, the agriculture ministers of the group of 20 leading economies (G20) said on Sunday 22 January

Piñol: "Philippines are ready to export corn in 2017"

Pinol: "Philippines are ready to export corn in 2017." (Image source: Gerry Manacsa/Commons)

Emmanuel F. Piñol, Secretary of Agriculture of the Philippines, has stated on his official Facebook page that the Philippines is ready to export corn

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