Agriculture

FAO revives livelihoods and food security in Pakistan’s Sindh Province

In Pakistan’s rural Sindh province, livestock are an integral part of poor people’s livelihoods, contributing to household income, food security and nutrition. (Image source: Imran Sohail/Flickr)

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is taking steps to save millions of family farmers in Pakistan that have been affected by a series of natural hazards in the last 14 months and recent COVID-19

Plant behaviour translated into data to optimise algorithms

Team AuTomatoes. (Image source: Hoogendoorn)

The Wageningen University’s Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge aims to maximise the yield and quality of his crop while minimising the use of resources, to save costs

Nutreco commits to adopting Science Based Targets

The aim is to provide high-quality food to a growing population in a sustainable way. (Image source: Sasin Tipchai/Pixabay)

Nutreco is adopting Science Based Targets to help the world produce enough nutritious and high-quality food for its growing population in a sustainable way

IFAD makes US$9mn investment in impact fund helping rural SMEs

The fund aims to help rural SMEs to grow their business and income. (Image source: Heri Santoso/Pixabay)

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has announced an investment of US$9mn into the Agri-Business Capital (ABC) Fund, a blended capital impact fund to help small-scale farmers and micro- small and medium size rural enterprises in developing countries create jobs and increase incomes

Vertical farming getting popular across the globe

Vertical farming is a process where crops are grown indoors under carefully controlled environmental conditions. (Image source: BrightAgrotech/Pixabay)

Vertical farming is set to overcome the traditional complex and opaque supply chain of fresh produce, improving the quality of yields

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