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Making agriculture sustainable

Agriculture is possibly the most important sector of global activity. It is a source of foods, fibers and, increasingly, fuel. It provides livelihoods and subsistence for the largest number of people worldwide. It is vital to rural development and therefore critical to poverty alleviation. Up to 40% of the land’s surface is used for agriculture, along with 70% of the world’s fresh water supply. ...

Feb. 5, 2008

By Environmental News Network (ENN)

North Africa and the Middle East through to the year 2050: towards a greater dependence on agricultural imports

The North Africa and Middle East region (NAME) currently suffers from one of the highest food dependence levels in the world. On 28 October 2015, INRA presented the results of a study, commissioned by Pluriagri*, which was able to simulate the potential trajectories of the region's agri-food system between now and 2050. Based on a retrospective analysis (1961-2012), the experts (agronomists, ...

Oct. 28, 2015

By INRA - French National Institute of Agronomical Research

Engineering rice that needs less fertiliser

Genetic modification (GM) of crops is one of the more recent technological advances in agriculture designed to meet increasing demand for food. New research reveals that rice can be modified to use nitrogen more efficiently, thus reducing the need for nitrogen fertilisers while increasing yields. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has estimated that food production ...

Feb. 5, 2009

By European Commission, Environment DG

Iden Biotechnology develops new lines of corn tolerant to low temperature stress

In response to the growing global demand for agricultural products, the seed market uses modern and conventional technologies to develop new varieties with higher yield, resistant to stress and sustainable crop cultivation management. The challenge of the agri-food sector is to improve agricultural productivity through a combination of genetic and conventional improvement, to create crop ...

Jun. 25, 2018

By Iden Biotechnology

Uganda`s tea trade threatened by rising temperatures

Some of Uganda's most lucrative tea plantations could be "wiped off the map" under the 2.3 degree Celsius temperature rise predicted for 2050, a study has said. Even with the expected one degree Celsius rise by 2020, the 60,000 small farmers who grow Uganda's high-quality tea could face a 30 to 48 per cent decline in output, scientists at the Colombia-based International Center for Tropical ...

Sep. 13, 2011

By SciDev.Net

Patents fail to boost crop yields

Policies that secure intellectual property rights (IPRs) for agricultural innovations often fail to encourage technology transfer to developing countries or increase crop yields, a study shows. “Intellectual property rights are not all they are cracked up to be,” says David Spielman, a co-author of the study and researcher at the International Food Policy Research Institute, based in ...

Oct. 28, 2015

By SciDev.Net

World Agri-Tech Investment Summit 2016: Technology Showcases Finalised

Our Technology Showcase line up for the World Agri-Tech Investment Summit has been finalised! The line-up includes: Agroptima Ceradis Growcentia Iden Biotechnology MagGrow Plant Response Rezatec ScanTask Visual The Yield The Technology Showcase sessions at the World Agri-Tech Investment Summit are a great opportunity for early to mid-stage agri-tech companies to showcase their technology or ...

Jul. 29, 2016

By Rethink Events Ltd.

Clean-burning Cookstoves, Technology for Local Electricity Production to Be Developed for Africa

Development of clean-burning technology for household cooking and medium-scale electricity production in Sub-Saharan Africa is the focus of a new multiannual project by Bio4Energy researchers in collaboration with African actors, the Swedish Environment Institute (SEI) and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. As the researchers acknowledge in an application for funds to the Swedish ...

Nov. 13, 2015

By Bio4Energy

Finalists Announced for the World Agri-Tech Demo Day

Rethink Events, hosts of San Francisco’s upcoming World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit, together with Royse AgTech Innovation Network, are delighted to announce the twelve companies selected to pitch their ag and food-tech solutions to local VCs at the newly launched “World Agri-Tech Demo Day”. The Demo Day, taking place on March 27, offers an opportunity to very early-stage, ...

Feb. 17, 2017

By Rethink Events Ltd.

New crop of plant scientists emerges at CSIRO

Under the CSIRO Plant Industry Summer Student Program, 17 students are engaged in a range of important agricultural research projects designed to discover, for example, how high temperatures affect crops and the genetic bases of crop development. The Program, which runs from 6 December to 11 February, provides university students with real insights into the day-to-day working lives of some of ...

Jan. 20, 2011

By CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Are we running out of phosphate?

The scientific community has issued a stark warning that we may exhaust supplies of phosphate, a fertiliser that is crucial to ensuring global food security, in the next few decades. Along with nitrogen, phosphate comprises an integral component of the fertiliser that farmers use to spray crops and maximise agricultural yields all over the world. But while our atmosphere is composed of nearly ...

Oct. 22, 2019

By Environmental Technology Publications Limited

Has China’s Economic Shift Really Ended the Commodity Super-cycle?

The most recent economic “super-cycle,” a decades-long trend of rising commodity prices, has been influenced by the surging growth of China since the turn of this century. Now, as China begins its shift from an export-led growth model to a model based on internal investment and consumption, the super-cycle has slowed. Despite this shift, however, commodity prices suffered a notable ...

Nov. 18, 2014

By Worldwatch Institute

Agricultural technology innovations

Companies & breakthroughs helping the world produce more food with less Clean/green agtech: a report SAVE $300 - discounted until Friday Which companies and innovative technologies are best positioned to help boost the yields and sustainability of agriculture while lowering its environmental impact? How should the industry prepare to manage risk around disruptive clean/green agricultural ...

Nov. 8, 2012

By Kachan & Co.

Compost made by worms from livestock manure yields benefits when applied to maize

Vermicomposting livestock manure with maize can increase agricultural benefit by 304%, shows a new study. The combination of increased crop yield and the additional earthworms produced as a result of the process led to a substantial increase in output compared to a traditional composting system. As intensive agriculture and livestock production both increase, unique problems emerge. Heavy use of ...

Sep. 24, 2015

By European Commission, Environment DG

IFA2030 Launched at Strategic Forum

The global fertilizer industry provided in 2016 almost 190 million tons of nutrients to crops, and with global food demand increasing in line with population growth, it is clear that fertilizers will play an even larger role in global food security in the decades ahead. At the same time, forces impacting the agricultural sector, technological developments, environmental constraints, consumer ...

Nov. 13, 2017

By International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA)

Africa’s agricultural revolution from city to field

Across the globe, universities play a significant role in a nation’s socio-economic development. They contribute to the advancement and dissemination of new knowledge. Umezuruike Linus of the Opara Faculty of AgriSciences, at Stellenbosch University, in South Africa, suggests that African universities must take up the mantle of reflective, critical and evidence-based analysis to allow a ...

Sep. 30, 2013

By Inderscience Publishers

UNEA-4 Adopts Resolution on Sustainable Nitrogen Management: Global Fertilizer Industry Committed to Doing Its Part

The Resolution on Sustainable Nitrogen Management, adopted at the 11-15 March UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi, calls for coherent evidence-based, global policy coordination to address negative impacts of reactive nitrogen stemming from multiple sources. “With the numerous uses of nitrogen in industrial transformation, energy production, and, of course, plant nutrition, IFA welcomes this ...

Mar. 19, 2019

By International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA)

Increasing cropping frequency offers opportunity to boost food supply

Harvesting existing cropland more frequently could substantially increase global food production without clearing more land for agriculture, according to a new study from the Institute on the Environment (IonE) at the University of Minnesota. The study, published in Environmental Research Letters, tracked global harvest trends of 177 crops between 1961 and 2011. It found that the total amount of ...

Nov. 25, 2013

By University of Minnesota

Investments in women farmers still too low

Women farmers produce more than half of all food worldwide and currently account for 43 percent of the global agricultural labor force, yet few extension or research services are directed at women farmers,according to new research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute (www.worldwatch.org) for its Vital Signs Online service. Women produce as much as 50 percent of the agricultural output in South ...

Jul. 31, 2012

By Worldwatch Institute

Urgent Action Needed to Address Africa’s Soil Health Issues, Say Experts

One of the best prospects for feeding Africa’s rapidly growing population is to increase the sustainable use of fertilizers, a high-level panel of experts is expected to say today at an international meeting of the World Food Prize. Despite 10-year-old commitments to expand the use of fertilizer in African agriculture, the continent still averages around one-tenth of fertilizer use per ...

Oct. 20, 2017

By International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA)

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