World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
During the conference several countries and international banks and donors pledged funds to fight hunger and help agricultural development.
The Food Security and Productivity Enhancement Programme of Small farmers has recorded a significant expansion reached 1012 villages costing Rs 100 million in Punjab. A spokesman of Agriculture department on Friday told Business Recorder that the federal, provincial and district governments in Punjab would jointly carry out the programme. The programme would be carried out in 72 villages of Sialkot while each village would be provided with funds amounting to Rs 1.95 crore for implementation of the programme while initial work on the project has already been initiated in the district.
By Anil Pandey India is being blamed for current food shortage in south asia. How far this is true? A couple of weeks ago Ameri can President George Bush made similar statement blaming the prosperity of the rising Indian middle class for the current food crisis. This is far from truth as the consumption of food grains has been growing three times faster in the US as compared to India, according to Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO).
The Punjab government gives top priority to agricultural research as reflected in its first budget out-laying Rs 940 million for agriculture. This will not be spent on routine research activities but in research projects selected on competitive basis to resolve targeted high priority issues of this sector.
New Delhi June 25: The Indian government's view that biofuels are responsible for current food crisis, stands vindicated by one more international report. A briefing paper by Oxfam released on Wednesday has blamed biofuels for contributing to the present food crisis. In its report named "Another Inconvenient Truth: How Biofuel Policies are Deepening Poverty and accelerating Climate Change", Oxfam warned that biofuels are not a solution to either the climate change crisis or the oil crisis. The cost of using biofules to improve fuel security are prohibitively high, the report pointed out.
The worst of the bird flu threat is over but the fight to eliminate the disease from poultry is weak
The draft of the second Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper has not adequately addressed two critical issues of food security
Carola Hoyos & Javier Blas Western countries have upgraded the food and fuel crisis into a national security concern as they fear record high energy and agriculture commodity costs are destabilising key developing regions of the world. The concerns come as the world suffers for the first time since 1973 from the confluence of record oil and food prices. Corn, soyabean and meat prices jumped this week to all-time highs, while oil prices hit a record of almost $140 a barrel.
Speakers at a view exchange meeting yesterday said that within 2088 there would be no cultivable land in Bangladesh if the present rate of conversion of farmlands into non-cultivable ones remains so. They urged the policymakers to adopt a master plan for using the land of the country for cultivation to achieve food security. The view exchange meeting on 'Recovering farm land, stopping non-farming use of farmlands and national food security' was organised by Forward Party at the Jatiya Press Club in the city.
Biofuels have failed to live up to their early environmental promise, but fuels made from plant waste and weeds may turn this around.