Can pre-disaster cash and aid help fix climate loss and damage?
DHAKA/KURIGRAM, Bangladesh – In northern Bangladesh, where annual monsoon floods on the Brahmaputra River often ravage crops and homes, farmers are limiting losses thanks to a system for early warning and aid. Hasan Ali, 50, a farmer from Chilmari in Kurigram district, received fodder for his livestock 10 days before last year’s flood from the […]
ANALYSIS-Can pre-disaster cash and aid help fix climate ‘loss and damage’? | Science-Environment
* Early action before disasters can reduce losses * In Bangladesh, pre-emptive aid saves farms from floods * COP28 due to set up new climate loss and damage fund By Md. Tahmid Zami and Mosabber Hossain DHAKA/KURIGRAM, Bangladesh, Oct 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – I n northern Bangladesh, where annual monsoon floods on the […]
Farmers in a fix as seed potato prices skyrocket
Farmers are in a bind as seed-potato prices have skyrocketed to Tk 70-Tk 90 per kilogram, which is set to raise the production cost of the tuber crop to a new high this year, insiders said. A large number of medium-and large-scale farmers, who typically preserve seed potatoes of above 75 per cent of the […]
Amid inflation, pre-elections, and dengue, Bangladesh is in a fix
August 2, 2023 DHAKA – The people of Bangladesh are currently facing several crises. On the one hand, the prices of commodities are increasing, with no moves from the authorities to bring them down. Different ministers have different things to say about this – while one says the people of the country are well, another […]
Traders seek World Bank aid to fix Tripura-Bangladesh trade barriers
Agartala: The India Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Tripura Industries have urged the World Bank to get rid of the trade barriers hindering growth of the trans-border movement of goods with Bangladesh through Tripura. A total of 44 trade articles that have great demand in the local markets of both countries are not allowed to […]
Our View: Will McCarthy help fix the broken immigration system?
Kevin McCarthy, the Bakersfield congressman and newly crowned House speaker, took a bit of a victory lap this month, as he brought his congressional cohorts to the opening day of the World Ag Expo in Tulare. It was also a bit of a love fest, as farmers gathered around the local-boy-made-good and his Republican colleagues. […]
Cabinet clears policy to fix minimum and maximum prices of agricultural goods
The Cabinet on Monday cleared the draft of the National Agricultural Marketing Policy, 2023 in order to modernise the marketing system and ensure the highest benefits for the farmers through different measures including fixation of minimum and maximum rational prices for the agricultural goods. The approval came from the Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh […]
‘Our food systems are broken’: Can COP27 help fix agriculture?
If you visited Sylvia Kuria’s farm in central Kenya right now, you’d find sweet potatoes, cassava and sorghum grain growing – despite the drought. “Now we’re really praying for the rains, because we’ve had four failed seasons,” the smallholder farmer and businesswoman tells Euronews Green. “Four times farmers have planted and four times it has […]
Off-farm Income: How to Fix the Farm Income Balance
https://hoosieragtoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/vilsack-off-farm-wrap.mp3 A recent CoBank report completed by the University of Missouri shows 82 percent of farm household income now comes from off-farm sources. Most farmers cited reliable income as the top reason for off-farm employment, as one-half of farm households have negative farm income in a typical year. Health and retirement benefits were also cited […]
USDA trying to fix farm income balance
Photo courtesy of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) A recent CoBank report completed by the University of Missouri shows 82 percent of farm household income now comes from off-farm sources. Most farmers cited reliable income as the top reason for off-farm employment, as one-half of farm households have negative farm income in a typical […]