Rice

Agriculture

Liberia: 'New Farming Technologies Will Make Liberia Food-Secure'

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Publication Date:

08/03/2018

Source: All Africa

Tags:

Agriculture, Food Security, Liberia, Rice, Food Crops, Africa

Agriculture

Rice intermediate filament, OsIF, stabilizes photosynthetic machinery and yield under salinity and heat stress

Cytoskeleton plays a vital role in stress tolerance; however, involvement of intermediate flaments (IFs) in such a response remains elusive in crop plants.

Publication Date:

06/03/2018

Author(s): Neelam Soda, Brijesh K. Gupta, Khalid Anwar & et al

Source: Scientific Reports

Vol:

8

Issue:

4072

pp:

1-13

Tags:

Rice, Agricultural Research, Droughts, Water Salinisation

Health

Healthy, affordable and climate-friendly diets in India

India has among the highest lost years of life from micronutrient deficiencies. We investigate what dietary shifts would eliminate protein, iron, zinc and Vitamin A deficiencies within households’ food budgets and whether these shifts would be compatible with mitigating climate change. This analysis uses the National Sample Survey (2011–12) of consumption expenditure to calculate calorie, protein and the above micronutrient intake deficiencies and relate them to diets, income and location.

Publication Date:

01/03/2018

Author(s): Narasimha D. Rao, Jihoon Min, Ruth DeFries & et al

Source: Global Environmental Change

Vol:

49

pp:

154-165

Tags:

Nutrition, Consumption Patterns, Traditional Knowledge, India, Poverty, Nutritional Diseases, Green House Gases, Rice, Legumes, Millets, Maize, Animal Products, Milk Products, Statistics, Climate Mitigation

Agriculture

Generating employment and increasing income in agricultural value chains and thereby fostering food security: case studies of rice and cotton in Benin and Senegal

In this paper, use a case study approach to investigate the patterns of employment and income generation in cotton and rice value chains in Senegal and Benin.

Publication Date:

01/03/2018

Author(s): Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, Assane Bèye, Adama Guèye, Boris Lokonon, Yacor Ndione

Source: Center for Development Research (ZEF)

Tags:

Agriculture, Food Security, Rice, Cotton, Benin, Senegal, Africa, Unemployment, Women

Agriculture

The impact of adopting risk-reducing, drought-tolerant rice in India

This study evaluates the effectiveness of Sahbhagi Dhan as a drought-tolerant rice variety in India. The study used a randomized controlled trial to evaluate Sahbhagi Dhan by providing Sahbhagi Dhan seeds to randomly selected farmers in treatment villages in either 2012 or 2013.

Publication Date:

01/03/2018

Author(s): Takashi Yamano, Manzoor H Dar, Architesh Panda, Ishika Gupta, Maria Luz Malabayabas, Eric Kelly

Source: International Initiative for Impact Evaluation

Tags:

Rice, Droughts, India, Farmers, Agriculture, Climate Change

Water Resources

Exploitation of groundwater in India for meeting short-term demand can hamper long-term goals, expert says

CHENNAI: Rapid industrialisation during the last few centuries have increased greenhouse gas emissions, leading to global warming.

Publication Date:

01/03/2018

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi)

Tags:

Groundwater, Rice, Agriculture, Global Warming, Green House Gases, Rainfall, Groundwater Recharge, Water Resources

Agriculture

Tanzania and EU launch rice projects to boost production

DAR ES SALAAM Tanzania (Xinhua) -- Tanzania and the European Union (EU) on Wednesday launched three rice projects in Tanzania aimed at increasing competitiveness and improving the post-harvest valu

Publication Date:

19/02/2018

Source: Coast Week (Kenya)

Tags:

Agriculture, Rice, Food Crops, Tanzania, European Union (EU), Africa, Food Security

Agriculture

Crop munching pest in Africa raises hunger threat

A crop munching worm that can fly up to 100 km (60 miles) at night is spreading rapidly across Africa, threatening food production and the livelihoods of millions of farmers already struggling with

Publication Date:

29/01/2018

Source: Reuters (Africa)

Tags:

Agriculture, Crop Pests, Food Security, FAO, Maize, Rice, Sorghum, Africa

Climate Change