Agriculture

ISSUES

Yield and environment don't necessarily go hand in hand

Agricultural practices vary a lot. Industrialised countries practice heavily mechanised and subsidized intensive farming Intensive mechanised farming also exists in emerging countries and in the 19 industrialised Cairns Group countries, but it is not subsidized and to a varying extent utilizes agricultural inputs (pesticides, fertilisers) In developing countries, farming is also slowly becoming mechanised ; but it does not use many agricultural inputs and in some countries, such as India, it may be subsidized, For major producers (wheat, rice, coffee, etc.), this very much depends on the fluctuation of world prices. In mountainous regions and in semi-arid areas, animal husbandry conducted responsibly presents many advantages such as : upgrading of a poor biomass which cannot be used for other activities ; production of high quality goods ; good landscape management and creation of jobs and thus income for the farmers

NEWS

Farmers plant rice near crippled Fukushima site

Rubber boom fuelling SE Asia land grabs: report

US Supreme Court finds for Monsanto in seed patent battle

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DEBATES

Ethics and Agriculture

Peter Singer

MELBOURNE – Should rich countries – or investors based there – be buying agricultural land in developing countries? That question...

Think, Eat, Save: UNEP, FAO and Partners Launch Global Campaign to Change Culture of Food Waste

Consumers, Food Industry and Government All Have Role to...

Countries must do more to fight child labour in agriculture

The internationally agreed target of eliminating the worst...

FOCUS

Nobel Price of ecology

Designed to recognize grassroots environmental heroes, the Goldman Environmental Prize, founded by Richard and Rhoda Goldman in 1989 In San Francisco, is awarded annually to individuals from the six inhabited continental regions for sustained and significant efforts to...

VIDEOS

16/04/2013	n developing countries around the world, rural people are losing their...	10/04/2013	In Cambodia, de-mining transforms former battleground into field of hope....
18/12/2012	In South Australia, once caught, tunas are harvested in tuna pens where...	24/10/2012	Feeding the world sustainably, as the global population grows, is one of...

GREEN TIPS

Get women out of poverty

Women living in the countryside belong to the most vulnerable populations. They are the first victims of...

INDICATORS

Arable land
Undernourishment
Degraded soils
Pesticide use

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