El sector de la agricultura es uno de los grandes implicados en el cambio climática. Por tanto, los agricultores deben participar en el desarrollo de las estrategias de mitigación y adaptación al mismo amparados con la ayuda de los gobiernos y administraciones pertinentes para cumplir con los objetivos establecidos

La bioenergía debiera ser un debate básicamente energético y ambiental es materia de oportunidades de negocios para el sector del agro pero en realidad allí comienzan los problemas.

General Eusébio de Brito Teixeira tem vindo a requerer a si próprio autorização para a legalização de terrenos destinados à agro-pecuária e à construção de condomínios. Através de um esquema habilmente montado, o governador e os seus filhos somam já a posse de mais de 30 000 hectares.

Significant strands within the ruling ANC appear to believe the answer to poor black marginalisation and de-agrarianisation lies in the recreation of a rural idyll of ‘vibrant’ local economies, disciplined workers, benign farm owners, virtuous peasant farmers and omnipotent chiefs.

As food supplies have tightened, a new geopolitics of food has emerged—a world in which the global competition for land and water is intensifying and each country is fending for itself.

Overnight, China has become a leading world grain importer, set to buy a staggering 22 million tons in the 2013–14 trade year. As recently as 2006—just eight years ago—China had a grain surplus and was exporting 10 million tons. What caused this dramatic shift?

Unfortunately, a growing share of the water that irrigates three-fifths of India's grain harvest is coming from wells that are starting to go dry. This sets the stage for a major disruption in food supplies for India's growing population.

In every society where incomes have risen, the appetite for meat, milk, eggs, and seafood has generated an enormous growth in animal protein consumption. Today some 3 billion people are moving up the food chain.

With desertification becoming more of an apparent issue, are we doing enough to stop it from becoming a widespread irreversible problem?

Newly released reports, academic papers and research with relevance to agriculture.

Over the past five years, at least 39 farmers have killed themselves rather than leave their land. The figures are a stark reminder of how China’s new wave of urbanization is at times a violent struggle between a powerful state and stubborn farmers.

It is a shame that many of those who care so deeply about the wellbeing of this planet and its people seem incapable of having a rational debate about modern food production.