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Rice bred to perform well in the toughest conditions where the poorest farmers grow rice is a step away from reaching farmers thanks to a major project led by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). Green Super Rice is actually a mix of more than 250 different potential rice varieties and hybrids variously adapted to difficult growing conditions such as drought and low inputs, including no pesticide and less fertilizer, and with rapid establishment rates to out-compete weeds, thus reducing the need for herbicides. More types of Green Super Rice that combine many of these traits are in the pipeline. With the world facing the double dilemma of rapidly increasing demand for agricultural commodities and changing climates that affect our ability to produce food, it raises our awareness of the importance of linkages. Under its mandate, FAO has developed strong experience and expertise not only to fight poverty and hunger and to ensure environmental sustainability, but as this report shows, the output of the Organization links across the whole MDG universe. Read the document>>>> For a large number of developing countries, agriculture remains the single most important sector. Climate change has the potential to damage irreversibly the natural resource base on which agriculture depends, with grave consequences for food security in developing countries. However, agriculture is the sector that has the potential to transcend from being a problem to becoming an essential part of the solution to climate change provided there is a more holistic vision of food security, climate-change adaptation and mitigation as well as agriculture’s pro-poor development contribution. What is required is a rapid and significant shift from conventional, industrial, monoculture-based and high-external-input dependent production towards mosaics of sustainable production systems that also considerably improve the productivity of small-scale farmers. International food prices have increased steeply in the past six months, bringing the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Food Price Index to its highest level since the high food price crisis in 2008 (only 16 points short from its peak in June 2008)
Global food insecurity remains a serious problem. In 2010, more than 900 million people are still hungry, and progress toward reaching the first Millennium Development Goal of halving the world’s proportion of malnourished people is off track by a wide margin. But the global environment within which food insecurity persists is changing in important ways. Emerging countries such as Brazil, China, and India, which have experienced rapid growth and increased integration with the global economy in recent years, have significant potential to contribute to global food security—not only by alleviating hunger among their own citizens, but also by increasing trade and financial linkages as well as technology and knowledge exchanges with developing countries. Continue reading The role of emerging countries in global food security Last year, 925 million people suffered from hunger. But the wide misconception is that there simply isn’t enough food to go around. On the contrary, experts argue, there is enough for everyone. “We have enough food for everyone, yet nearly a billion go hungry,” United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in a July message that marked population day. Experts blame people, not nature, for many causes of hunger. For example, climate change’s effects are linked to increased risks of droughts that hit harvests, while market speculation fuels food price inflation. And conflicts displace people or disrupt food-aid delivery, while broad economic disparities in many countries also cause hunger. Add to this the many people who lack the finances or the rights to buy or use enough land to grow their food. Continue reading There’s enough to feed 7 billion, but 1 Billion still hungry The winds carried ash clouds from a volcano in Chile thousands of kilometers across the Atlantic Ocean to affect flights in South Africa on 19 June, so it is possible that the spores of the variants of a deadly mutant fungus, Ug99, a wheat stem rust that surfaced in South Africa in 2009, could travel to Australia – one of the world’s four main wheat exporters – in the same way. (Source IRIN) Read More……. Banana and plantains are the second largest food-fruit crops of the world produced in the tropical and subtropical regions of mostly the developing countries. The two together are positioned fourth in terms of gross value. During recent years, growth of banana cultivation has witnessed great strides reaching 95.60 million tonnes in 2009 from 66.84 million tonnes in 2001. Continue reading Micropropagation for Production of Quality Banana Planting Material |
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