Are Industrial Agriculture and Genetic Modification the Answer to Feeding Humanity?
6 August 2017
Industrial
agriculture has made it possible to produce large amounts of food
fairly efficiently, but it also comes with numerous problems.
http://img.alternet.org/books/are-industrial-agriculture-and-genetic-modification-answer-feeding-humanity
India Set For Record Output of Kharif Crop Harvest: Agriculture Secretary
6 August 2017
Till
last week, farmers had sown kharif crops in 878.23 lakh hectare as
against 855.85 lakh hectare in the year-ago period, as per the
Agriculture Ministry's latest data.
http://www.news18.com/news/india/india-set-for-record-output-of-kharif-crop-harvest-agriculture-secretary-1484125.html / [ Top ] CLIMATE CHANGE
Precision breeding needed to adapt corn to climate change, ancient samples show
4 August 2017
The
US Corn Belt and European maize owe their existence to a historic
change: the ability of this plant, originally from the tropics, to
flower early enough to avoid winter. Research led by Cornell University
in New York and the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Developmental Biology
in Tuebingen, Germany reveals that indigenous people in the American
southwest started the process of adapting maize to temperate growing
seasons 4000 years ago and refined it over the following 2000 years.
http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life-sciences/precision-breeding-needed-to-adapt-corn-to-climate-change-ancient-samples-show.html [ Top ] DROUGHTS
Severe drought cripples Sri Lanka
4 August 2017
Lack of rain ravages rice harvest and reduces drinking water for poor villagers
http://www.ucanews.com/news/severe-drought-cripplessri-lanka/79928 [ Top ]
FLOODS
What is the impact of floods on India’s GDP?
Flood Waters Trap Drivers, Damage Homes in South Jersey
3 August 2017
Heavy
rain caused major flooding in South Jersey Thursday especially in
Burlington City and Burlington Township where the flood threat continues
due to Delaware River high tide at 1 a.m.
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/weather/stories/Rain-Flooding-South-Jersey-Pennsylvania-Delaware-438429093.html [ Top ] FOOD SECURITY
Madagascar Sets an Example for Land Reform
2 August 2017
The
World Bank is supporting Madagascar’s efforts to accelerate land reform
through two projects promoting food security, social protection,
agricultural growth, and secure land tenure.
http://reliefweb.int/report/madagascar/madagascar-sets-example-land-reform [ Top ] IRRIGATION
Satellites and SMS help Pakistan’s farmers with smart irrigation
7 August 2017
Using
data from NASA, Pakistan’s water research agency is sending rain
forecasts to 10,000 farmers, helping them to irrigate more efficiently
and increase their crop yields.
http://www.eco-business.com/news/satellites-and-sms-help-pakistans-farmers-with-smart-irrigation/ [ Top ] WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
BMDesign's concave roofs offer a solution to water scarcity in iran
According
to BMDesign, more than half of iran has an arid climate and
environment, each year expanding more and more. big lakes like lake
urmia have shrank to a fraction of their size, gradually disappearing,
or zayandehrud – the largest river of the iranian plateau – has parched
and left a metropolitan city like isfahan encountering serious
consequences. consequences like thousands of farmers losing their jobs
or the city itself on the brink of rationing drinking water.
https://www.designboom.com/architecture/bmdesign-concave-roofs-solution-water-scarcity-iran-08-07-2017/ [Top]
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
68th
IEC and 23rd ICID Congress on Irrigation and Drainage, 8-14 October
2017, on the theme: Modernizing Irrigation and Drainage for a new Green
Revolution, Mexico City, Mexico, 8-14 October 2017.
Website: http://www.icid2017.org/
Drainage and Flood Control Summit, 26 - 27 November 2017, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Website: https://drainagefloodcontrol.com/
8th
Asian Regional Conference, 2-4 May 2018, Kathmandu, Nepal, on the theme
of “Irrigation in Support of an Evergreen Revolution”
Website: http://nencid.org.np/
69th
IEC & Regional Conference, 12–17 August, 2018, Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan, Canada, on the theme: Innovative and Sustainable
Agri-water Management: Adapting to a Variable and Changing Climate.
Website: http://www.icid2018.org/
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LATEST PUBLICATION(S)
National Agriculture Policy, Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, September 2016.
Agriculture
remains the mainstay of Malawi’s economy, contributing significantly to
employment, economic growth, export earnings, poverty reduction, food
security, and nutrition. It also plays a critical role in ensuring
sustainable use of natural resources. All of these pose a threat to food
security and nutrition in the face of a growing population, increased
land pressure, and climate change. In trying to address these challenges
in the past, Malawi has over-concentrated on maize self-sufficiency for
food and tobacco as a cash crop, at the expense of other agricultural
commodities, including livestock and fisheries. Moreover, the sector
remains predominantly subsistence-oriented. In response, the NAP seeks
to sustainably transform the sector from subsistence to a market
orientation in order to increase agricultural production, marketed
surpluses of commodities, and real incomes.
http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/NAP_Final_Signed.pdf [ Top ]
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