Tag: Agriculture

Jack Ma an agriculture tsar? (Lianhe Zaobao, Think China)

Alibaba founder Jack Ma seems set to add “agricultural tycoon” to his list of titles, going by his latest moves to break into the...

Climate finance meets low-carbon agtech (Jonathan Phillips, Victoria Plutshack, and Rob Fetter, Brookings)

Headlining the climate finance discussions next week at COP26 may be the shortfall in advanced economies’ $100 billion annual pledge to help low- and...

Why we need increased investment in food and agriculture in developing countries and international organizations that support them (Uma Lele, Brookings)

The Sustainable Development Goals are off track. The prospects of the SDGs being realized by 2030 are bleak. The rapid pace of consistent decline...

Space/Agriculture. Earth Observation Trainings for Agriculture (UNOOSA)

Space radar image of Dnieper River, Ukraine. Credit: NASA/JPL From the monitoring of natural resources to precision agriculture, Earth Observation (EO) and remote sensing play...

Space/Agriculture – NASA At Your Table: The Space Agency’s Surprising Role in Agriculture (NASA)

NASA writes: Everybody needs to eat. Food is a basic necessity, and it is at the heart of every human culture and our sense of...

TechInnovation – Modern farming is as much about data as digging. Here are 3 emerging agricultural skills (WEF)

Image: Roland Berger Raviv Itzhaky Modern farming is as much about data as digging. Here are 3 emerging agricultural skills | World Economic Forum (weforum.org)

Agriculture/Climate Change – Agricultural insurance: The antidote to many economic illnesses (Brookings)

Gracelin Baskaran and Barry Maher In recent years, the world has encountered a range of compounding shocks: droughts, floods, wildfires, cyclones, and most recently, a worldwide pandemic...

Why agricultural reform is needed to achieve net zero emissions (ODI)

Anna Locke A quarter of the way into the “super year” for climate and nature – and with eyes firmly fixed on COP26 – policy-makers and activists...

Transforming Agriculture (WEF)

Speakers: Purushottam Kaushik, Shiv Aroor, Susanna Hasenoehrl, Anir Chowdhury, Prateep Basu, Jayesh Ranjan The world needs to nourish 9.8 billion people by 2050, but current practices are neither nutritious nor sustainable....

(Climate Change/Agriculture) Regenerative agriculture is the next great ally in fight against climate change (TechCrunch)

Nancy Pfund It seems that every week a new agribusiness, consumer packaged goods company, bank, technology corporation, celebrity or Facebook friend announces support for regenerative...

(Agriculture/Big Tech) The Big Tech takeover of agriculture is dangerous (Al Jazeera)

Larissa Ambrosano Packer Grassroots lawyer at GRAIN Henk Hobbelink Coordinator of GRAIN Devlin Kuyek Researcher at GRAIN Kartini Samon GRAIN researcher https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/2/5/the-big-tech-takeover-of-agriculture-is-dangerous

(Agriculture) Unless we urgently rethink agriculture, more diseases will jump species (IFAD)

This article was originally published in Red Box on The Times website by Sabrina Dhowre Elba, IFAD Goodwill Ambassador and Lord Goldsmith. https://www.ifad.org/en/web/latest/story/asset/42418509