Full Coverage: Agriculture

30.07.2007 ActionAid’s Hunger Monitoring project reveals that climate change and oppression in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh have worsened hunger and deprivation amongst the population. The study points out significant changes in weather patterns over the last four to five years which has adversely affected farming.

27.07.2007 NEW YORK, Jul 27 (OneWorld) - Calls for increased help from Washington are on the rise as global efforts to tackle the world's burgeoning water and sanitation crisis have largely failed to produce any meaningful results so far.

27.07.2007 The cotton has now been dubbed "the killer crop" as continues to take the lives of farmers in the Vidarbha region of western India. High cost of farming and poor returns have taken the lives of nearly 8,000 farmers in four years says activist farmer Kishor Tiwari.

26.07.2007 The Green Revolution has been a useful response to food insecurity at a certain point in India's history. But the strategy cannot be a permanent one for a country like India. The fact is that intensive agriculture could happen only with high a level of irrigation, with diversity of ecology, rainfall and water table on which India is lacking.

20.07.2007 Food supply could stretch tight for low-income food-deficit countries, says FAO’s latest report. After a relatively strong growth for four years in a row, production of cereals is predicted to go slow.

20.07.2007 A newsletter - Contaminated Irrigation Water and Food Safety for the Urban and Peri-Urban Poor - has been published by Toxics Link which talks about the shortage of fresh water and the use of wastewater for irrigation purpose.

20.07.2007 Recently, United Nations Development Programme, (UNDP) launched this years human development report for Zambia in Lusaka. The occasion, which was graced by the presence of the country's vice president, Nevers Mumba was rather sobering. There was just nothing to celebrate. Zambia finds itself in the unenviable 164th position in the world on social and economic performance.

16.07.2007 Despite threats from the Madhya Pradesh government, the adivasis in the Narmada dam affected areas have occupied the land in Taloon, near Badwani, divided among themselves and started co-operative.

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