Resources Tagged: Food Security

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  1. Effect of Planting Time on Growth, Yield Components, Seed Yield and Quality of Onion (Allium cepa L.) at Tehuledere District, Northeastern Ethiopia

    Abstract,Agriculture & Food Security, 2018 Background Onion (Allium cepaL.) is member of the family Alliaceae and the most widely grown herbaceous biennial vegetable crop. Quality planting material is one of the major inputs to successful vegetable production. However, it is one of the major...
    Onion Food Security

  2. The World Food Situation

    2009-04-01 This article is from ECHO Asia Note #1 What is the outlook for world food prices? In the immediate future (the next few months), some moderation in global food prices seems likely in response to very recent (since mid-2008) declines in world grain and energy prices. In the short-term (next 2 to 3...
    Food Security Asia

  3. SECURING GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY: What Role for Latin America’s Net Agricultural Exporters?

    2015-01-20 This report features the work of five distinguished specialists in agricultural economics. Shenggen Fan from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) begins with an examination of trends in global food security. Fan’s chapter is followed by analysis by Piñeiro and Myers of the...
    Food Security Export Latin America and ...

  4. Introducing A New Fruit Crop

    Key Resource
    2011-01-20 Over the past 30 plus years that we have been working with small-scale farmers in Central Africa, we have enjoyed the wonderful lushness of its forests, savannahs, and rivers. In addition, we have been privileged to get to know some of the many people groups, with their different cultures and...
    Nuts Tropical Food Crops Orchard Food Security Fruit Trees

  5. Lablab (Lablab purpureus) New Staple Crop for the Sudano Sahel

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    2013-01-20 About 98% of agricultural production in the Sudano Sahelian region of West and Central Africa is based on rainfed crops. With a mean annual rainfall of 300 to 800 mm/year, the number of staple crops is very limited. It includes two grain crops: pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) for sandy soils...
    Rain-fed Agriculture Nitrogen Fixation Forage Crop FMNR Food Security Intercropping Pulses Lablab

  6. Food Security, Self-Sufficiency, and the Availability of Amaranth in Mexico

    Abstract, UNAM , 2016 In Mexico, obesity and malnutrition have become a severe public health problem. As a result, a return to nutritional surplus crops, such as amaranth, has emerged as an alternative to improve the population’s diet and mitigate malnutrition-related problems in Mexico....
    Amaranth Malnutrition Nutrition Food Security Latin America and ...

  7. Controlling crop pests and diseases

    Key Resource 2001-01-01 This book is about global hunger, and our backyard garden. It looks at the opportunities that the future holds for people facing hunger all over the world, with these objectives: 1. To create an awareness that there is a world of potential beyond tomatoes and green beans. 2. To note what some of...
    Food Security Global Hunger Vegetable gardening Food Crops

  8. Pastoralism: Making Variability Work

    The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has published “Pastoralism: making variability work”(2021, Animal Production & Health Paper 185, 58pp) written by Saverio Krätli and Ilse Koehler-Rollefsen with comments and guidance from FAO staff and pastoralist specialists...
    Environmental Vari... Pastoral Land Mana... Pastoralism Pastoralist Pastoral Systems Food Security CELEP

  9. Inclusiveness for a Prosperous and Food Secure Drylands: ICRISAT Annual Report 2013

    2013-01-01 This is the 2013, 2014 annual report for the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics. 55 pages, photos
    Food Security Food Crops Dryland Farming Tropical Agriculture Semi-arid

  10. The Carbon Farming Solution

    Key Resource 2016-01-01 The 2015 Paris Climate Summit attempted to define specific actions related to the sequestration of atmospheric carbon, which continues to reach ever greater concentrations (currently over 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide). To curb climate change, 350 parts per million or less is regarded...
    Climate Change Carbon Sequestration Food Security Regenerative agric...