Public-private partnerships enhance farmers’ digital literacy, ensuring fair pricing, efficient markets and sustainable cultivation The cultivation of sunflower in Pakistan…
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Global food insecurity deepens after over 800m affected as WFP seeks $16.9 billion in aid The world food crisis is…
Pakistan ranks 109th in 2024 Global Hunger Index, highlighting persistent food insecurity and malnutrition challenges Despite some progress, the nutrition…
* Investing in cold storage, logistics, and R&D can reduce food losses and enhance Pakistan’s potato competitiveness Potato is one…
Investments in modern farming and processing technologies can transform red chili industry As a crop, red chili has a distinctive…
Government injects Rs20 billion into livestock to boost economy and food security Sources recorded that the Government of Pakistan is…
Unpredictable weather patterns and rising temperatures threaten crop yields and water resources Adopting methods like Zero Budget Natural Farming and…
Written By Mansour AlMulla Deputy Group Chief Executive Officer, ADQ One third of all global greenhouse gas emissions are related to…
R&D helps overcome challenges through public-private partnership For the past half century, we have been hearing that agriculture is the…
Modern infrastructure and reformed policies can transform bumper crops into sustainable prosperity Pakistan has produced bumper crops of rice, maize…
Integrated approaches in agriculture and nutrition drive societal well-being and economic growth Food is a fundamental human necessity for health,…
Written By Will Brownlie, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology; Mark Maslin, UCL, and Peter Alexander, The University of Edinburgh…
Need for comprehensive plans to enhance food security in the country Many of the security experts are of the opinion…
The current world population is 8.1 billion. By 2050, it is expected that the world’s population will grow to nearly…
Comprehensive strategy needed to address food security challenges Ensuring food security is now a challenge for Pakistan given its huge…
Pakistan has developed in the services and manufacturing sectors, but agriculture still remains one of the most significant components of…
Written By Jamie Burrows Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Vertical Future This article is part of: Annual Meeting of the New…
Achieving food security through sustainable agriculture has become an important goal in a society dealing with the simultaneous problems of…
Pakistan’s Agriculture sector Potential: Opportunities Amid. Challenges Pakistan has one of the world’s most impressive agricultural systems but it has…
Written By Adam Amoussou Food security is one of the world’s most pressing challenges and we only have a short…
Written By Smriti Kirubanandan Global Director & Head, Strategic Marketing Healthcare and Lifesciences, Tata Consultancy Services This article is part of:…
Written By Bibi La Luz Gonzalez Impact Lead – Food & Development, UpLink, World Economic Forum Abdulrahman Al-Zamil Head of Sustainable…
Pakistan is among the few developing countries which are experiencing adverse effects of climate change due to excessive use of…
In the backdrop of massive damages to agriculture by unprecedented floods caused by historic monsoon rains, the State Bank of…
The significance of rice in agricultural crops cannot be ignored as it is the staple food for greater than 50…
Written By Gerd Müller Director General, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) This article was originally published by UNIDO. Innovation in agriculture…
This year Pakistan is celebrating Independence Day, when the clouds of imminent are getting thicker. While the people have complete…
John Hammond, University of Reading and Yiorgos Gadanakis, University of Reading We are currently witnessing the beginning of a global…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Kate Whiting Senior Writer, Formative Content[/box] China is the most populous nation on earth, but the…
Access to at least an adequate amount of nutritious food is the most basic of all human rights. However world…
In Europe, the high nutrient prices have farmers questioning whether to curb plantings. Canadian authorities cautioned that growers may cut back…
Human activities have increased carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, driving up temperatures. Extreme weather and melting polar ice are among the…
The overall impact of Covid-19 on food security and agricultural food systems was not known in the initial phases of…
Mehran Spice & Food Industries completely, strictly compliant of Covid SOPs and ensure the food supplies Interview with Mr Gul…
The fertilizer industry has expressed dismay over a recent decision of the Cabinet Committee on Energy (CCoE) to divert natural…
There is no denying the fact that Pakistan is an agrarian economy. Since more than 20 percent share in the…
In Pakistan the three most contentious issues facing the farmers are: low productivity, distress selling of produce and huge post…
The Punjab government deserves some commendation for initiating a digital solution to strengthen its wheat monitoring and regulation mechanism, and…
Food Security is the accumulative measure of people’s access, affordability and subsequent availability of food throughout the year in a…
To contain the spread of COVID-19, countries around the globe have enforced lockdowns. It has resulted in closure of most…
Food wastage is the sum of food waste and food lost.It is an astonishing fact that every year around 36…
Pakistan is an agrarian economy, which places great emphasis on national food security and self-sufficiency in grain production. With fast…
Fertilizer contribution to food production is around 50% and FFC is one of the major stakeholder of agriculture sector through…
As per the United Nations, the number of undernourished people has dropped by almost half in the past two decades…
Since 2013 the Government of Pakistan (GoP) has been working on introducing warehouse receipt financing for key food crops. Ideally,…
Our actions are our future So called agriculture country in food crisis, why? Pakistan is essentially an agricultural country given…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Jasmine Fledderjohann, Lancaster University; Elisabetta Aurino, Imperial College London, and Sukumar Vellakkal, Birla Institute of Technology…
Reportedly, postharvest losses range from 10 to 20% for different crops in Pakistan. To achieve food security, containing such colossal losses should be…
Pakistan being an agro-based economy has to adopt modern farming methods to increase the yield capacity. A deluge of efforts…
Fauji Fertilizer Company Limited (FFC) is the leading fertilizer manufacturing & marketing company of the country, with more than 4…
Achieving food and nutritional security has remained one of the core underlying objectives of all the policies, programs and strategies…
ADB approves $275 million loan to increase agricultural production and improve food security in Punjab To ensure progressive food security…