Disaster Impact On Agriculture And Food Security
Disasters devastate rural livelihoods, destroy food, drive up hunger. Agriculture suffers and farmers bear the brunt of such shocks: FAO
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Available data shows that an increased occurrence and the intensity of disasters is the new normal, according to a recent report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
Within the first few months of 2020, huge swarms of desert locusts began ravaging countries across the Greater Horn of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and Southwest Asia - just one more hit to farmers already impacted by floods, cyclones, hailstorms, animal diseases, droughts, and other shocks.
Asia Pacific Records Region’s Best Performance In Food Affordability
EIU’s GFSI measures the drivers of food security through the underlying factors of affordability, availability, quality and safety, and natural resources and resilience in the region.
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The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) released the ninth Global Food Security Index (GFSI), sponsored by Corteva Agriscience earlier this month. The GFSI considers food security in the context of income and economic inequality, gender inequality, and environmental and natural resources inequality. This year’s report specifically calls attention to systemic gaps and how Covid-19 exacerbated their impact on food systems. Based on these findings, global food security has decreased for the second year in a row.
Agrochemicals Bounce Back Despite Covid-19 Fears
Between April and December 2020, production zoomed by almost 12%, compared to a negative 12.8% during the same period in the previous years: CARE Ratings
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After a dismal year in 2019-20, India’s agrochemicals industry has bounced back in this fiscal year (2020-21), despite the fears of COVID-19, and a series of economic lockdowns. Between April and December 2020, the production zoomed by almost 12%, compared to a negative 12.8% during the same period in the previous years.
According to a CARE Ratings update (March 11, 2021), the reasons for the buoyancy include domestic ones such as “two consecutive good monsoon seasons, remunerative (crop) prices”, “good sowing season”, and an “acceleration in agricultural activities”.
Women Farmers In Georgia Break Into Male-Dominated Agri Sector
Farming is considered rare means for women to find financial independence in rural Georgia; but some have proved otherwise. Outlook Web Bureau Mar 14, 2021
A small, but growing, number of women are breaking into the male-dominated field of agriculture in Georgia, a country at the intersection of Europe and Asia.
Farming is considered rare means for women to find financial independence in rural Georgia. But Tamara Dzandzava is one of those who have decided otherwise.
The 30-year-old recently described the time she spends working in her greenhouse full of strawberry plants in an interview to Institute for War & Peace Reporting.
‘Farm-To-Table’ Movement Will Benefit Local Farmers
Direct sourcing from farmers eliminates involvement of middlemen, reduces transport time and nutrition is kept as intact as possible
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From restaurants to online stores, ‘farm-to-table’ has become a social movement. The world has taken to it mainly for concerns over food provenance, the distance food travels to kitchen, and producers’ benefit.
It is said that American pioneer Alice Waters started a food revolution in 1971 with the opening of her restaurant, Chez Panisse, in Berkeley, California.
She championed the serving of local in-season ingredients grown by local producers.
Farm-to-table restaurants grow their produce in their own farms. Most acquire them directly from local farmers. This helps in boosting the local economy and reduce carbon footprint.