Rural Development

Media release… DATE: March 28, 2023 The Forum for the Future of Agriculture (FFA) today used its Annual Conference in Brussels to issuea Call To Action to all stakeholders in the food and agriculture system in the face of aworsening forecast for the climate and the health of the world’s …

March 3, 2023GFAR by the GFAR Secretariat Agri-food heritage systems have been recognized for their potential to help address food security and to promote sustainable development worldwide. But significant progress in promoting and developing these systems remains to be made. Can the creation of a new digital knowledge environment help change …

African leaders recommit to increase financing from national budgets to agriculture… KIGALI, Rwanda…  James Tasamba… Africa’s development partners committed 30 billion dollars Friday to agricultural development and food sovereignty on the continent during the next five years.  The announcement came at the closure of a continental food summit in Senegal’s …

25 January 2023, Istanbul, Türkiye –  Small-scale family farmers can be instrumental in elevating human rights in the food and agriculture sector and in ensuring sustainable agrifood systems. To help create a supportive environment for peasants in which their inherent dignity and worth is recognized, Food and Agriculture Organization of …

Kazım Taycı, Chairman of the Board of Istanbul Cereals, Pulses, Oilseeds and Products Exporters’ Association (İHBİR), said, “We traveled to different countries of the world with our suitcase in one hand and samples of the products we produce in the other. We are one of the associations with the highest …

Establishing 733 honey forests in 79 out of 81 provinces, the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry is aiming to increase this figure to 790 by the end of 2023, stating that Türkiye ranks second in the world in honey production. Vahit Kirişçi In the statement made by the ministry to daily Hürriyet, it noted that …

The government wants to see more young people at every stage of agricultural production, Agriculture and Forestry Minister Professor Dr. Vahit Kirişçi has said. “I consider food safety as the first priority of the ‘Turkish Century’ in agriculture,” Kirişçi said at a meeting of the Agriculture-Forestry Workers Union in Ankara. “We need to shape our agricultural …

According to the farmer; Climate change is the biggest threat! One of the sectors most affected by global warming and climate change is the agricultural sector. A study conducted in 13 countries revealed that 98 percent of farmers in Türkiye see climate change as the biggest threat. Farmers state that …

Where there is water, there is life. A reliable source of clean water is necessary to grow nutritious food and to lead a healthy life. But climate change is wreaking havoc on rainfall patterns and causing surface water to be lost to evaporation. Sometimes there is not enough water, and …

The very first Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty by 2030… Today, seven years after the goals were agreed and on the heels of a global pandemic, conflict and economic crises, a world without poverty seems out of reach. The World Bank estimates that, by the end of 2022, 685 million …