Research / Food & Agriculture
Increasing food production is the main policy prescription for addressing food security, but this neglects the crucial importance of access and affordability for low-income urban residents. This according to the …
Food & Agriculture
Agricultural insurance improves food security globally
One in eight people in emerging markets suffer from hunger and malnutrition.
Agricultural insurance is an indispensable part of agricultural risk management and helps to smooth farm income as well as incentivise food investment.
Agricultural insurance...
Food & Agriculture
Small-scale farmers' decisions in globalised markets
There are some 435 million small-scale farmers in Asia, most of whom cultivate land parcels of less than 2 hectares for subsistence and require other livelihood activities to sustain themselves. …
Food & Agriculture
Latest Agricultural Technology Innovation
Changes in the way food is grown will soon represent risk to existing dominant players worldwide and create new opportunities in agriculture.
Food & Agriculture
Green Growth: Opportunities for New Zealand
Pure Advantage's new independent report, Green Growth: Opportunities for New Zealand, is the first robust analytical assessment of New Zealand's green growth economic opportunities within a global context.
Food & Agriculture
Farm to Factory: Technology in Reducing Water Risk in the Food and Beverage Industry
As the food industry focuses on water savings for sustained growth, Lux Research rates 39 companies with technologies that can help.
Food & Agriculture
Myanmar: Overview of Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade
Myanmar remains one of the world's only countries with no prohibitions on log exports. The country provides much coveted teak and other hardwood logs to the region and beyond. Sawn …
The Living Planet Report is the world's leading, science-based analysis on the health of our only planet and the impact of human activity. Its key finding? Humanity's demands exceed our …
Food & Agriculture
Food Price Escalation in South Asia – A Serious and Growing Concern
A spike in the cost of food staples like rice and wheat could push tens of millions more people into extreme poverty in South Asia but food subsidies targeted at …
In the 20th century, governments and businesses didn't have to worry about resource productivity; they were able to focus on capital and labor instead. Over the next 20 years, resources …
Transport
Green Economy in a Blue World
Healthy seas and coasts would pay healthy dividends in a green economy, according to a report released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and partners that highlights the huge …
Food & Agriculture
Design for sustainable fisheries—modeling fishery economics
The new McKinsey report, Design for sustainable fisheries, explores the best means of establishing sustainable fisheries around the world, based on a clear understanding of the options and their biological …
