As India and Pakistan struggled to cope with soaring temperatures this month, experts warn lack of access to cooling tech like AC, fridges and fans will cost lives and livelihoods.
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Intensive tillage operations, indiscriminate use of irrigation water, chemical fertilizers, and pesticides and crop biomass burning have made the conventional rice–wheat (RW) system highly energy-intensive and inefficient. In the recent past, portfolios of climate-smart agricultural practices (CSAP) have been promoted as a potential alternative to improve the energy efficiency in conventional RW system. 
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The rapid adoption of digitalisation and robotics is making serious waves to amplify China’s status in the food and agtech sectors, claims a leading regional investment expert.
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Irrigated agriculture in South Asia depends on meltwater, monsoon rains and groundwater. Climate change alters the hydrology and causes shifts in the timing, composition and magnitude of these sources of water supply. Simultaneously, socio-economic growth increases water demand. Here we use a high-resolution cryosphere–hydrology–crop model forced with an ensemble of climate and socio-economic projections to assess how the sources of irrigation water supply may shift during the twenty-first century. We find increases in the importance of meltwater and groundwater for irrigated agriculture.
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Les blocages s'accumulent dans les sites de production et circuits logistiques chinois. Un phénomène qui pousse les marques occidentales à produire et acheter ailleurs. Les perturbations dans les supply chain risquent de durer un certain temps.
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New free trade agreements (FTAs) are reducing Australia’s tariff rate advantage for some agricultural products in Japan (ABARES 2022).
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The average return on grain cultivation in 2021 reached its highest level in five years, a senior official from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced during a Monday press briefing.
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Although China is dangling economic incentives in front of the Taliban, it does so to extract security guarantees while seeking to ameliorate development challenges in Afghanistan for fear that poverty may drive instability.
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To meet the ambitious target of a 30 per cent reduction in methane emissions, Vietnam will need to support a transformation in its rice farming practices.
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Agriculture ministers from the G7 industrialised nations immediately condemned India’s ban on wheat exports.
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Almost two-thirds of humanity live in a region heavily influenced by the monsoons. But for decades, they have been slowly drying up.
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Hundreds of Indonesian smallholder farmers staged a protest on Tuesday in the capital Jakarta and in other parts of the country, demanding the government end a palm oil export ban that has slashed their incomes.
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L'Inde a annoncé interdire les exportations de blé face aux vagues extrêmes de chaleur dans le pays.
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The Quad countries and others in Asia made clear over the last five days that while things like maritime defense are important, real security has to heed Asian countries’ economic wants and needs.
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Gordon Tam, cofounder and CEO of vertical farming company Farm66, wants to show that agriculture—combined with technology—has a promising future in cities, deserts and even in outer space.
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Scientists say South Asian heat wave is driven by global warming.
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Quel est ce mal mystérieux qui frappe les coupeuses de canne à sucre dans la région de Beed, en Inde ? Pourquoi un tiers d'entre elles subissent-elles, parfois très jeunes, une ablation de l’utérus qui provoque une ménopause précoce ?
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Half of India relies on farming to survive. Providing access to carbon credit schemes could secure the country's food supply while also making them money.
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It will be difficult to boost agricultural production without addressing the dwindling workforce in the sector.
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The first China Cellular Agrictulture Forum has been held, to bring together domestic players and international parties for sector progress.
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The latest analysis conducted by Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) warned that high acute food security persists across Afghanistan as a combination of collapsing economy and draught is depriving nearly 20 million Afghans from food. The analysis was conducted in February by IPC partners which includes the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, World Food Programme and UN backed NGO’s highlighting gravity of situation. The report places about 6.6 million out of a population of 40 million in its emergency IPC 4.
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Sky-High US Gasoline Prices to Lure More Imports From Asia. Most of the motor fuel shipments will come from India.
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China needs innovative solutions to satisfy its growing demand for meat and dairy.
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Countries across Asia and the Pacific are joining an initiative to promote and showcase the ‘best of the best’ of their special agricultural products – a move designed to ensure a high level of participation from smallholders to producers to exporters and others all along the value chain.
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Unhelpful short-term fixes are not the answer to spiking food prices
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