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

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GERMANY - BERLIN - Le géant allemand de l'agrochimie BASF a avancé jeudi "une confusion" entre deux plants de pomme de terre...

GERMANY - BERLIN - L'utilisation des pommes de terre génétiquement modifiées développées par BASF, Amflora, a été interdite mardi...

MYANMAR - La collecte des taxes dans les zones rurales par les militaires birmans s’accompagne de violences et d’extorsion de...

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DEBATES

Why it makes more sense to invest in farmers than in farmland

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Farmland acquisitions – what are the risks? attracted new players to the sector, some investors?Some media reporting has...

Africa’s Urban Farmers

Even though Wangari lives in Kenya’s capital, she is able...

Fighting Biopiracy

The bean for which Proctor was granted a patent is a...

INITIATIVE

Farming For Hope in the West Bank

Canaan Fair Trade and The Palestinian Fair Trade Association In 2003, after years of living abroad in the U.S., Dr. Nasser Abufarha returned to his native land of Palestine for research related to his PhD dissertation on...

VIDEOS

17/08/2010	Jean Ziegler, qui a été rapporteur spécial pour le droit à l'alimentation...	17/08/2010	A video about biofuel in Brazil.
08/07/2010	Face au problème du prix du café, l'association Ubuntu aide les habitants...	20/04/2010	L'installation dans le Brabant d'une porcherie capable d'abriter 10 000...

GREEN TIPS

Farmers have a say/ their say

The organisation Radios Rurales Internationales, which is based in Ottawa is a local radio network installed...

INDICATORS

Arable land
Undernourishment
Degraded soils
Pesticide use

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