Dinajpur, Bangladesh – In the northern district of Dinajpur, Bangladesh, farming is more than a livelihood — it is a way of life. But for many smallholder farmers, the journey from planting to harvest has long been a struggle marked by financial hardship. Most farmers are forced to take high-interest loans from moneylenders just to begin […]
Industrial agriculture is devastating our land, water, and air, and is now threatening the sustainability of the biosphere. Its massive chemical and biological inputs cause widespread environmental havoc as well as human disease and death. Its monoculturing reduces the diversity of our plants and animals. Its habitat destruction endangers wildlife. Its factory farming practices cause untold animal suffering. Its centralized corporate ownership destroys farm communities around the world, leading to mass poverty and hunger. The industrial agriculture system is clearly unsustainable. It has truly become a fatal harvest.
With biological carbon removal projects already receiving large parts of the increasing financial flows towards carbon offsetting, this deal narrative illustrates the ensuing trade-offs and potential benefits using the example of two land deals from the Land Matrix database in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), commonly known as Laos. To meet the global goals […]
The $250,000 World Food Prize, considered by many the Nobel Prize of food and agriculture, was awarded today to an Indian scientist credited with launching a "blue revolution" (a rapid increase in fish production) in the developing world.
Modadugu Gupta has spent 30 years creating a cheap and ecologically sustainable system of small-scale fish-farming using abandoned ditches and seasonally flooded fields and water holes smaller than the average swimming pool.
One of the important recent concepts in agricultural development has been the concern for sustainability. This concern originated with the high tech, high input and high yielding systems of the developed world and its meaning and appropriateness to the developing world. The presentation represents some reflections on the application of sustainability to the developing countries of Asia.
Sustainable agriculture is defined as agriculture that balances the need for essential agricultural commodities such as food, fibre, etc. with the necessity of protecting the physical environment and public health, the foundation of agriculture.
Nine representatives from the Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA) member farmers’ organizations and AFA Secretariat, namely Mr. Lilaraj Raut, AFA Regional Young Farmer Committee Chairperson and a secretariat staff of the Central Tea Cooperative Federation (CTFC) (Nepal), Mr. Aitkul Burkhanov, a forest user and Director of the the Kyrgyz Association of Forest and Land Users […]
Every four years in Rome, the global meeting of the Farmers’ Forum sees millions of small-scale producers represented on the world stage as farmers’ organizations gather at IFAD’s headquarters. The Forum allows farmers to have their say on IFAD’s operations, strengthen collaboration and discuss policy. At the eighth global meeting, we asked four farmers’ organization leaders from […]
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