Agri-Pulse published an article stating that the potential for increased trade with India is substantial, but the country has refused to commit to the trade pillar of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, leaving some in the U.S. ag sector pessimistic about changing the country’s direction. India is the only nation of 14 in the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework to refuse to join in the trade
Modeling the optimal energy solutions for irrigation in Ethiopia by Dawit Mekonnen and Hua Xie Open Access | CC-BY-4.0 Agriculture accounts for 34% of Ethiopia’s GDP and 67% of its employment, and development of irrigation is widely seen as a promising option to boost agricultural production and enhance agricultural resilience in the country. However, energy use in irrigated agriculture in Ethiopia is
No end in sight yet for the global food price crisis by Joseph Glauber, Manuel Hernández, David Laborde, Will Martin, Brendan Rice, Rob Vos Open Access | CC-BY-4.0 After the sharp rise in international prices of wheat and other staple foods in the wake of Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine, since May prices have fallen back to pre-war levels. Has the global food price crisis
India’s double-edged nutrition problem (East Mojo) East Mojo (India) published an op-ed by research fellows Kalyani Raghunathan and Derek Headey. In the op-ed, the authors wrote the nutritional quality of many Indians’ diets has deteriorated since the start of the pandemic. Three in four South Asians who cannot afford a healthy diet live in India. As India looks to fix malnutrition, it finds itself forced to
Hurricane Ian spares fertilizer plants but sends a warning to the U.S. industry (Marketplace) Marketplace produced a podcast on how Hurricane Ian narrowly missed landing a serious blow to the domestic fertilizer industry. About half of the phosphate fertilizer in the U.S. comes from three plants in the Tampa area. The hurricane could have been yet another headache for a fertilizer industry that’s
Scientists say One Health approach to plant health is vital to achieving sustainable global food security (Eureka Alert) Eureka Alert published an article stating that a team of scientists argue that a One Health approach to plant health is vital if we are to sustainably feed a growing population expected to reach 10 billion by 2050. The researchers, who published a commentary in
World Bank published a blog post written by research fellow Kibrom Abay and Sikandra Kurdi, Kibrom Tafere (Sustainability and Infrastructure Team of the Development Research Group), and Nishant Yonzan (World Bank). The blog post stated that there were lessons and warnings to take from Africa’s response to the Coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic was one of the largest global shocks in recent history. Fortunately, it did not
Connect rural areas with digital innovations to unlock climate resilience for hundreds of millions of farmers (CIMMYT) CIMMYT published a post by Jawoo Koo, IFPRI, and Andrea Gardeazabal, CIMMYT, who explained how smallholders in Africa, Asia, and Latin America will benefit from the CGIAR Initiative for Digital Innovation. Research shows that digital innovations can increase small-scale farmers’ incomes, boost the adoption of better practices,