Precision Agriculture and Food Security
FarmFriday is here and glad to share this article to help you brush up on latest agri technologies in use and how they can be instrumental in attaining food security… Abstract Precision agriculture comprises a set of technologies that combines sensors, information systems, enhanced machinery, and informed management to optimize production by accounting for variability […]
The State of the World's Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
Hunger Wednesday shares FAOs Second Report on State of the World’s Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture The Second Report on the State of the World’s Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture was published in 2010. The main objective is to update the First Report with the best data and information available, through […]
GM Mosquito out and about now
FrankenThursday’s where it gets a bit freaky. I’m not sure though if i like self-terminating mosquitoes. Surely some even more freaky mosquitoes would evolve from this. Anyways just tellin’ you all that frankenmosquitoes are available now. to. bite. you. Seriously though, why didn’t they just make those mosquitoes averse to human blood or to humans? […]
Meet the 2010 AsiaDHRRA ExeCom
Support for the IYFF Campaign continues to grow
Support for the International Year of Family Farming continues to grow worldwide. Among the latest endorsers are the Department of Agriculture of the Philippines and the Pan-African Farmers Association. We need your support dear readers, to encourage your states and governments to endorse this very noble campaign! Kindly visit the IYFF website for more information […]
2010 Diwali Greetings!
To feed the world, governments break new ground with civil society
An excerpt from the IPS interview with the AsiaDHRRA SecGen Ms. Marlene Ramirez… In an unprecedented nod toward civil society organisations, this year’s annual FAO event to shape global food security policy rolled out the welcome mat to some 150 activists who took part in the just-finished meeting – on equal footing with government delegates. […]
Is the "‘Culture of Poverty’ in fashion again?
an interesting read from IHT. i remembered intense discussions about this years ago. whaddya think of this? For more than 40 years, social scientists investigating the causes of poverty have tended to treat cultural explanations like Lord Voldemort: That Which Must Not Be Named. The reticence was a legacy of the ugly battles that erupted […]
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CSO Statement on the 30th FAO-APRC: Our Food, Our Future, Our Urgent Calls
We, seventy ( 70) representatives of organizations of small farmers, fisherfolk, indigenous peoples, rural women, pastoralists, youth, cooperatives, and NGOs from Asian Civil Society met from September 27-28 for the CSO parallel consultation to the 30th FAO-Asia Pacific Regional Conference in Gyeongju, Korea. We discussed the critical issues affecting global food security namely: climate change […]
