One of the greatest challenges today is to end hunger and poverty while making agriculture and food systems sustainable. The challenge is daunting because of continued population growth, profound changes in food demand, and the threat of mass migration of rural youth in search of a better life.
This report presents strategies that can leverage the potential of food systems to become the engine of inclusive economic development and rural prosperity in low-income countries. It analyses the structural and rural transformations now under way, and examines the opportunities and challenges they present to millions of small-scale food producers.
It shows how an “agroterritorial” planning approach, focused on connecting cities and towns and their surrounding rural areas, combined with agro-industrial and infrastructure development can generate income opportunities throughout the food sector and underpin sustainable and inclusive rural transformation.
Access the SOFA 2017 digital report here.
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"Tweeting Growers"
Top 5 -yesterday
- “We have to involve the crop itself in the automation and the control”
- Square watermelons, hexagonal oranges, and heart-shaped cucumbers
- New and renewable: Raw material ‘Kompofibre’ can be mixed into substrates
- US (FL) Punta Gorda-based 250,000 sq. ft. greenhouse completes optimization process
- Drone catches pests
Top 5 -last week
- Whitefly prevention with liquid nutritional plant enhancer
- Derek Hargreaves ‘A Remarkable Man’
- "The number of high-tech greenhouses in Poland has grown significantly in recent years"
- CAN (ON): “We are moving into the strawberry category as a united front"
- "We can produce up to 2.5 times more from the same acreage"
Top 5 -last month
- "The container is essential to determine the quality of the plant"
- Finland: 11.000m2 hybrid vertical farm constructed near Helsinki
- Here are last year's best read articles: vertical farming, strawberries and sustainable initiatives
- “I have to throw away my crops because of energy prices”
- Whitefly prevention with liquid nutritional plant enhancer
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Other news in this sector:
- 2022-01-28 Fresh produce companies turning to automation during pandemic labour shortages
- 2022-01-28 Herbex purchased Magnani, a benchmark company in the Italian aromatic herbs market
- 2022-01-28 "Many open ends at cucumber season's start"
- 2022-01-28 Malaysia: Shortage of vegetables as crops destroyed by floods and heat
- 2022-01-28 IFPA announces Class Three of Produce Safety Immersion Program
- 2022-01-28 Campaign should encourage Australians to eat more veggies
- 2022-01-28 hubergroup launches sheet-fed offset ink series for direct food contact
- 2022-01-28 The value of Almeria's pepper and tomato exports increased by 9%
- 2022-01-28 The European Commission is studying the implementation of 44-ton cargo transport vehicles throughout the EU
- 2022-01-28 Global overview: bell pepper market
- 2022-01-27 Aigen raises a $4 mln seed led by NEA
- 2022-01-27 "COVID-19 infected staff currently shippers' biggest challenge"
- 2022-01-27 Strawberries become a hot item before the Spring Festival
- 2022-01-27 Europe: Challenges and opportunities in CEA
- 2022-01-27 Cajamar studies the cultivation of passion fruit in greenhouses
- 2022-01-27 Horticulture is Uganda's second economic growth driver
- 2022-01-27 Province of Huelva has largest growth in exports within Andalusia
- 2022-01-27 Community fruit and vegetable exports to third countries decreased
- 2022-01-27 Crespo assures that greenhouse cultivation is the Circular Economy Law's 'greatest ally'
- 2022-01-26 Frost risking greenhouse products in Albania
