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Excess production of foods: brings what - Positive or negative impact for farmers???
Recently in Bangladesh, some agricultural farmers showed their agitation against the government by through tons of paddy in the main road of capital city. The cause of their grief was that, they couldn’t make profit by selling...
Food price volatility: Implications for ACP countries
On the 13 th of November 2011, CTA organised a Briefing on ‘Food price volatility: Implications for ACP countries’ in cooperation with International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the New Partnership for Africa’s...
Worldwide Event of World Soil Day Conference: "Arable Land Protection Mechanism and Innovative Approaches in the Framework of Eco Civilization" 世界土壤日全球活动研讨会:“生态文明背景下的耕地保护战略与路径创新”
Arable land protection affects global and regional policies, including food security, climate change, social-economic livability and poverty problems. Under current circumstances of global and regional sustainable governance...
China Agricultural University, Editorial Department of China Land Science | 中国农业大学,《中国土地科学》编辑部
How IFPRI’s Food Security Portal monitors food prices volatility: the "Excessive Food Price Variability Early Warning System"
Food excessive price volatility is a significant concern in developing countries, with potentially negative effects for both producers and consumers. Poor consumers spend a large share of their income on food; for example...
POLICY COHERENCE AND FOOD SECURITY: THE EFFECTS OF OECD COUNTRIES’ AGRICULTURAL POLICIES There have been important changes to agricultural policies in many OECD countries over the past decade, with reforms in the past five years...
Can organic agriculture improve yields and incomes for smallholder farmers in Africa?
Organic agriculture has the potential to improve both crop yields and incomes of smallholder farms in sub-Saharan Africa substantially – this is shown in a unique collaborative study from the Research Institute of Organic...