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Okay, i kid you not, now you can actually construct your house using cow dung bricks!  FarmFriday brings this cool technology developed by the cool guys and gals of  EcoFaeBrick, an Indonesian organization set up to tackle the problem of excessive waste in farming areas.

TechTuesday presents this newsbit from Open Acadaemy for Philippine Agriculture about their latest project to pilot test for effectiveness in terms of usefulness, appropriateness and clarity to farmers the use of videconferencing to “communicate or convey rice S&T information to OPAPA CyberCom farmers. continue reading about how videoconferencing is helping philippine farmers communicate with agri [...]

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We like farm equipments especially local inventions so for FarmFriday we showcase this updated version of the seeder produced by PhilRice. If you would like to know more or are interested in buying this machine please contact 0920-911-1398. Even with low-cost drum and precision seeders around capable of seeding rice seeds in rows at 20 [...]

HungerWednesday shares this interesting website we stumbled upon while browsing Grain. Visit http://farmlandgrab.org, website maintained by Grain, “that offers the most comprehensive information tool on the global land grab for outsourced food production” Grain says the website “provides an open, up-to-date and easy to search library of over 800 articles, interviews and reports on farm [...]

FrankenThursday goes back to that underreported tragedy that is the Indian Farmer suicides. Again from  Celsias. One of the least-reported tragedies that resulted from globalization and corporatization of agriculture is the farmer suicide story of India – a tragedy comprising several hundred thousand individual tragedies, and possibly the ‘largest wave of suicides in history’. Last [...]

HungerWednesday present this article from Celcias about the Oxfam Report that details how shifting seasons caused by climate change may severely impact food production and contribute to the rise in world hunger in the coming years. Shifting seasons are destroying harvests and causing widespread hunger – but this is just one of the multiple climate [...]

AsiaDHRRA is co-organizing the Regional Conference on the Impact of the Global Economic and Financial Crisis to the Vulnerable Sectors in the Region: Civil Society Voices and ASEAN to be held on July 28-29, 2009 in Jakarta, Indonesia. The regional dialogue seeks to strengthen a constructive civil society interaction with ASEAN and policy makers in [...]

FarmFriday found this interesting technology while browsing Celsias. So we followed the links and then ultimately came to Cleantech where they’re promoting this technology. High oil prices, the diversion of 30 percent of the U.S. corn crop for ethanol, and strong demand from China and India are causing food shortages in vulnerable countries around the [...]

HungerWednesday again and we highlight this interesting article from Celias about how “China ended its dependence on food aid, but almost overnight.. became the world’s third largest food aid donor.” And China got to this by dismantling collective farms and replaced them with family farms. Wow! Another convincing proof that family farming is the way [...]

One by one, biotech companies are steadily making GMO versions of our staple foods. We should stop this madness! Ya its FrankenThursday. Eat healthy today ok? From Grain: The looming GM sugar cane invasionOne of the most destructive developments in agriculture over the past two decades has been the boom in soya production in the [...]

Here’s an interesting tidbit shared by our good friends over at WRF. This IFPRI produced table illustrates the various deals by the private sector to rent or buy lands in other countries.  Read the full article here.

FarmFriday presents this report from ELDIS about the growing trend in public-private partnership in Latin America. Might provide us Asians some new perspective or approaches in agricultural development work. Abstract This report outlines how public-private partnerships (PPPs) constitute a new mode of operation in many fields of development, including the development of innovation in developing [...]

TechTuesday relates this interesting story about how mobile phones play a huge part in disseminating info about crop diseases in Uganda. Read the full article here…