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This is another interesting article about the supertree, moringa oleifera.
This is the first of four planned papers on the nutritional, therapeutic, and prophylactic properties of Moringa oleifera. In this introductory paper, the scientific evidence for health effects are summarized in tabular format, and the strength of evidence is discussed in very general terms. A second [...]

This article from IGTN suggests that the recent collapse of the WTO mini-ministerial, July 2008, reflects the new geopolitics of the global economy. The emerging economies are approaching trade issues and negotiations differently. Particularly they place more emphasis on supporting women employed in agriculture. There is new conviction among negotiators that poverty and livelihood issues [...]

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The proceedings of the 7th AsiaDHRRA General Assembly is now available for download.
click here to read or download the proceedings…
visit the 7th AsiaDHRRA GA activity blog

HungerWednesday highlights this paper on the food crisis presented by AsiaDHRRA Chairperson Datuk Marimuthu Nadason during the Forum on Regional Strategic and Political Developments held in Singapore recently.
The devastating presence of food crisis in this millennium has undoubtedly shocked all walks of life, from policy-makers to housewives in all areas of the globe. Unexpectedly, an [...]

Heres’s an interesting reading for TechTuesday from the DevelopmentGateway about how ICT are becoming essential tools in providing agricultural extensions services.
This paper reports on the 6th Consultative Expert Meeting of the ACP-EU Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation Observatory (CTA) on ICTs. The summary report provides an outline of the main issues, developments and trends [...]

FarmFriday showcases this rice farming tips from Philrice on “Controlling water during the rainy season”
Don’t let your ricefields overflow with water.
“Too much water, like the lack of it, could cause stress on the rice plant, affecting its growth and yield,” explained Jovino de Dios of the PhilRice’s Agronomy, Soils, and Plant Physiology Division.
According to PhilRice [...]

Stumbled upon this worrisome article in reddit..
http://onthecommons.org | 17 Nov 2006 / Jonathan Rowe
In my wife’s dialect of kari-ya, spoken on the island of Panay, in the Philippines, there is a word, binhi, which refers to the grains of rice that are set aside and used as seeds in the next planting season. There is [...]

For HungerWednesday, we have this insightful interview over at grains.org, of Timothy Lang, a Professor of Food Policy at City University in London and a leading authority on food.  “The steep rise in the price of basic food commodities on the world market this year came as no surprise to him, for he has been [...]

This is big! and its all over the net. From IHT
GENEVA: A high-level summit meeting to salvage a global trade pact collapsed Tuesday after the United States, China and India failed to compromise on farm import rules, according to trade officials.
Trade diplomats, who were not authorized to speak publicly, said that the meeting of seven [...]

AsiaDHRRA, a network of social development organization focusing on rural development in south east Asia, joins the international civil society organization in expressing our deep concern regarding the crackdown of protesters happening in South Korea . We are sad to note the government has not been sensitive to the voice of the people. The current [...]

For TechTuesday we found this interesting tidbit. haven’t gotten around to testing them out yet though.
The first edition of the UNESCO “Virtual Laboratory Toolkit” has just been released on the World Wide Web and within UNESCO’s Public@ series of representative “open access” CD-ROMs that are giving access to information in the public domain or to [...]

FarmFriday again and we share this article from FFTC about the looming soil pollution problems in the Asian REgion associated with “contamination of heavy metals in soils due to rapid industrialization, urbanization and intensive agriculture.”
TSUKUBA, JAPAN - The Asian economy has been growing fast in recent decades, and environmental stresses are building up rapidly along [...]

HungerWednesday features this writeup by Greenpeace we found on Eldis outlining the underlying causes of the food crisis and recommendations for the G8 countries.
Millions of people around the world are suffering food shortages, unaffordable food prices and hunger, primarily due to industrial farming, bad harvests related to climate change, unjust terms of trade and the [...]