Africa agriculture trade monitor 2023
The 2023 Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor, a flagship publication of AKADEMIYA2063 and the International Food Policy Research Institute, provides an overview of trade in agriculture in Africa, including
Cotton
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Returns and economics of Bt cotton vis-a-vis traditional cotton varieties in the state of Maharashtra in India
The study examines the performance and returns to Bt cotton vs Non-Bt cotton in the state of Maharashtra. The study has been undertaken at the request of Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India.
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Greenhouse Effect
Sushanth Darekar, 24, lives in the village of Lonikalbhor, 20 km off the Pune-Solapur highway. It is the middle of summer but the sweltering heat does not bother him. After a hard day
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Uzbek farmers face criminal charges for not growing cotton, wheat
Farmers in eastern Uzbekistan are likely to face criminal charges for growing fruits, vegetables and other crops that they can sell instead of cotton and wheat demanded by the state. The
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A typology of the effects of (trans)gene flow on the conservation and sustainable use of genetic resources
This report gives an overview of current research regarding the full range of possible effects of transgene flow on human health, the environment, the various stakeholders in the food and feed product
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Historian Heather Goodall on indigenous people, water in Australia
Heather Goodall, a historian at the University of Technology, Sydney, has a special interest in Australia's indigenous people
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Competition and monopoly in the Indian cotton seed market
The private sector has become an important supplier of varietal technology in agriculture. This has given rise to concerns about competition in the seed market.
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Rural Distress
It was the year rural India's agony gnawed at the conscience of the Government after farmers took desperate measures to voice their plight. Over 8,000 farmers committed suicide in the last decade due to repeated crop failures, inability to meet the rising cost of cultivation, and indebtedness.
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The children behind our cotton
Many children in the cotton fields are exposed to what is termed hazardous child labour, which can result in them being killed, injured or made ill as a result of their work (agriculture is one of the three most dangerous sectors in which to work, along
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The deadly chemicals in cotton
In total almost one kilogram of hazardous pesticides is applied per hectare under cotton, and cotton is responsible for 16% of global insecticide usage
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India becomes second largest producer of cotton
India has toppled the us to become the second largest producer of cotton, after China, states the cotton fiscal of 2006-2007. Statistics also show that by October-end, the annual cotton farmers'