India: Farmer protest fuels opposition hopes of denting Modi’s appeal
RUPAM JAIN, RAJENDRA JADHAV and MANOJ KUMAR, of Reuters, take a more in-depth look at the ongoing farmer protests in India…
Climate stress: Soaring rice prices sow hope – and trouble – for indebted Thai farmers
DEVJYOT GHOSHAL, NAPAT WESSHASARTAR AND PASIT KONGKUNAKORNKUL, of Reuters, report…
Table Talk: Do you need to wash rice before cooking? Here’s the science
In an article first published on The Conversation, EVANGELINA MANYZIORIS, program director of nutrition and food sciences at the University of South Australia, takes a look at the evidence…
Trash for rice: Bali recycling scheme gives families pandemic lifeline
Gianyar, Indonesia Reuters For Balinese souvenir shop owner I Kadek Rai Nama Rupat, the past two years during the COVID-19 pandemic have been a fight for survival. The pandemic has prevented the foreign tourists that usually throng businesses like his on the Indonesian resort island from coming and rising food prices have compounded the economic pain. […]
Postcards: Fears for Kenya’s urban food supply as floods drown rice
DOMINIC KIRUI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on food security fears in the East African nation…
Can a hungry Mali turn rice technology into ‘white gold’?
Baguineda, MaliThomson Reuters Foundation When rice farmers started producing yields nine times larger than normal in the Malian desert near the famed town of Timbuktu a decade ago, a passerby could have mistaken the crop for another desert mirage. Rather, it was the result of an engineering feat that has left experts in this impoverished […]
Crop-munching armyworm could threaten millions of farmers in Asia, says UN
Thomson Reuters Foundation A voracious crop-chomping pest which has wrought havoc in Africa could threaten millions of farmers in Asia, UN experts warned on Tuesday, as India battles the continent’s first reported infestation of fall armyworm. The pest – a moth which devours crops in the caterpillar stage of its lifecycle – prefers maize but […]
GLOBAL HUNGER: DON’T TRADE AWAY THE RIGHTS TO FOOD-SAY CHURCH CAMPAIGNERS
STEPHEN BROWN reports for Ecumenical News International…