By: Swastika Singh

Date: September 21st 2016

Source: Fijivillage.com

Different varieties of dalo, yams, cassava and sweet potatoes are some of the climate change resilient crops.

Permanent Secretary for Agriculture Jitendra Singh says to achieve sustainable food security, land and water resources management has been identified as one of the priority areas.

By: Emmanuel Ntirenganya

Date: September 16th 2016

Source: New Times

Sitting in the doorway of her residential house in the remote Murundi Sector, Kayonza District in Eastern Province, Verena Uwineza is sorting beans for evening meal on a traditional basket.

It is Monday, September 12. By most accounts, everybody has been affected by prolonged drought in this area.

By: Dr. Hassan B. Sisay, USA.
Date: September 8th 2016
Source: The Patriotic Vanguard

Sierra Leone has a severe and complicated relationship with rice, exacerbated by its reliance on an obsolete land tenure system.

By: Bill Vorley

Date: August 31st 2016

Source: The Guardian

Global brands have attempted to work more closely with low-income farmers in Africa, but informal markets may offer better terms

Linking low-income communities to the supply chains of large corporations - so-called inclusive business - has been a major trend over the past decade.

By: Richard Hackett

Date: August 31st 2016

Source: The Independent.ie

Normally at this time of year, while the harvest is still being wrapped up, thoughts rapidly turn to the next cropping season.

By: Mahmoud Solh 

Date: August 26th 2016

Source: AllAfrica.com / Al Jazeera

By: Betty Mutesi (International Alert)

Date: August 23rd 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Rwanda's women have equal rights in law. But the government and regular Rwandans must confront the country's systems of discrimination

In rural Rwanda, as in most developing countries, owning and controlling land determines whether you are rich or poor. In a country where some 57% of the population live below the poverty line, land is a prime resource.

Tiempo Muerto, or “The Dead Season,” visits sugar plantations across the Philippines, when many farmers struggle with hunger and deprivation because there’s no work during this off-milling period of the year. The season can be so brutal on farmers that more than a quarter of a million people—a whopping 385,000 sugar workers, known as “sakada”—are affected on Negros Island alone.

By: Magdalena Mis and Isaiah Esipisu

Date: August 22nd 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Around the world, farmers are ageing as the sector fails to attract younger talent who head instead to cities in search of work

ROME/NAIROBI, Aug 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For Kenyan farmer Pauline Wafula, there was never a question that her children would have to get their hands dirty and learn how to grow their own food.

By: Sayantan Bera

Date: August 15th 2016

Source: Live Mint

New Delhi: Several states, including Gujarat, Odisha and Punjab, are adopting a model law that is aimed at encouraging owners of agricultural land to lease out their land for farming.

By: Clelia Daniel 

Date: August 10th 2016

Source: CSR Asia

By John Raphael

Date: August 3rd 2016

Source: Nature World News

A new study revealed that tree cover on agricultural around the world has increased, potentially helping in the mitigation of climate change by capturing nearly 0.75 Gigatonnes carbon dioxide every year.