The AGORA program, set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to an outstanding digital library collection in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. AGORA provides a collection of 1278 journals to institutions in 107 countries. AGORA is designed to enhance the scholarship of the many thousands of students, faculty and researchers in agriculture and life sc more...

Rural women have developed practices for the efficient and sustainable use of the resources available to them. Rural women make a tremendous contribution to food and agricultural production. They also play a crucial role in determining and guaranteeing food security and well-being for the entire household. Equitable, effective and sustainable agriculture and rural development cannot be pursued without an explicit recognition of these realities. In a global atmosphere of increasing poverty, food more...

The current crisis in food prices has riveted the attention of hundreds of millions of people, many of whom had not before realized the devastating extent of chronic hunger and the poverty, malnutrition, and poor health that are its inexorable companions.

When farmers get access to credit and reliable storage facilities for their grain, it gives them the option to sell it when they can get the best price. The warehouse receipt system, introduced in some districts of Tanzania through an IFAD-supported programme, is now being introduced throughout the country by the government.

'As African governments and tens of millions of poor African consumers faced a dangerous rice crisis in 2007, new rice varieties adapted to African conditions helped achieve a 6 percent increase in the continent's output. The new rice varieties, which are suited to drylands, were distributed and sown on more than 200,000 hectares during the last five years in several African countries.

“The rapid rise in global food and energy prices has created political and economic stress all over South Asia with serious strategic implications for India, Pakistan, and the region at large. The energy crisis is the most immediate. With oil hovering around $120 a barrel, developing nations with high energy demands like India and Pakistan are particularly vulnerable. The food crisis, on the other hand, is more systemic. While rising energy costs have exacerbated inflation and commodity prices more...

This report published by FAO on July 2008 provides the updated information about Asia Pacific food situation.

The purpose of this policy brief is to highlight a number of issues that countries ought to be aware of when designing national policy responses aimed at the market - and at microlevel. These policy responses address two basic challenges:
• To ensure the provision of adequate food supplies through domestic market management or trade,
• How best to provide direct support to consumers

Poor rural farmers and herders in developing countries that bear the brunt of land degradation and desertification are also part of the solution, according to the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

The rural poor and local economies of the developing world have had profound and devastating impact due to food import surges. This paper shows different issues such as in chapter 1 outline the extend of import surges, chapter 2 provides a brief synopsis of import surge cases studied both by the ActionAid and FAO, domestic as well as external causes are outline in chapter 3,chapter 4 provides the details of several cases chapter 6 conclude the report with recommendations.