Climate Change and Environment

Climate change and invasive species are threatening production in Türkiye’s agriculture sector, posing risks especially to cash crops, such as olive, hazelnut and pistachio. Atakan Akça The latest numbers from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) showed that the country’s citrus production increased, while there was a steep decline in olive, hazelnut, pistachio and cotton …

Press release… Sebahattin Arslantürk, Vice Chairman of the Hazelnut and Products Sector Committee of the Eastern Black Sea Exporters’ Association (DKİB), said that in order to maintain the superiority in international markets in hazelnut exports, which is the agricultural product that provides the highest net foreign exchange inflow of Türkiye, …

The National Water Council held its inaugural meeting to address the pressing issue of depleting water resources, with Agriculture and Forestry Minister İbrahim Yumaklı underscoring the widespread misconception of water as an unlimited global resource. Yumaklı highlighted the diminishing availability of clean water due to rapid consumption, pollution, industrialization, urbanization, climate change and …

The threat of drought is increasing day by day and Türkiye is no exception. Associate Professor Dr. Canan Acar, from the University of Twente of the Netherlands, has highlights that Türkiye consumes 60 billion cubic metres of water annually. She suggests that by changing the agricultural irrigation system and reducing …

Rome, Italy – IFIF and the FAO held their 22nd annual meeting in November 2023 to further strengthen their collaboration on critical issues to ensure safe, nutritious,  sustainable feed and food. Thanawat Tiensin The meeting was opened by Mr. Thanawat Tiensin, Director Animal Production and Health at FAO, together with Mr. …

Rising food costs in the past years have led farmers across the globe to increase the cultivation of grains and oilseeds. However, consumers are expected to encounter limited supplies through 2024 due to challenging El Nino weather conditions, export limitations and elevated biofuel requirements. Global wheat, corn and soybean prices …

The transformation of agrifood systems – a unique opportunity to tackle climate change, biodiversity loss and food insecurity – is under threat from reduced funding… Rome/Dubai – December, 2023 The amount of climate finance flowing to agrifood systems is strikingly low and continues to diminish compared to global climate finance flows, a …

Any Concrete Progress in Climate Change Meetings? Disappointment Again! The impact of global climate change, which has been increasing since the industrial revolution of our world, mostly due to the use of energy-based fossil fuels by human beings, has been felt more in the last 60 years. Since 1988, Rio …

December 6, 2023 Intensified farming practices to feed a growing population are having severe impacts on the environment. Regenerative agriculture can ease the impact on the planet, and if adopted correctly, could potentially increase yields as one of its many benefits. To implement scalable and efficient regenerative farming practices, systemic …

While the increase in the use of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas, which cause climate change, causes an increase in global average temperatures, this situation brings extreme weather events, flood disasters and drought. With the addition of the El Nino effect to the global warming factor …