Research Post September 2, 2020 Exploring farmer adoption of conservation agriculture using a lab-in-the-field approach Mike Murphy Kate Ambler Alan de Brauw Testing the role of subsidies in adopting techniques to build long-term resilience.

Country: World Sources: UN Development Programme, UN Women The poverty rate for women was expected to decrease by 2.7 per cent between 2019 and 2021, but projections now point to an increase of 9.1 per cent due to the pandemic and its fallout.

The Khmer Rouge commander who oversaw the deaths of thousands of people during the Cambodian genocide, and who was serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity, has died at age 77.

Insecticide has its uses in controlling harmful pests that could otherwise devastate crops. The trouble, of course, is that oftentimes the use of insecticides comes at grave environmental costs. By spraying harmful insecticides liberally on their crops, farmers can decimate species, including key pollinators like bees, and devastate fragile ecosystems. […]

Former Indian president Pranab Mukherjee has died at the age of 84, according to a tweet from his son.

As COVID-19 continues to threaten lives and livelihoods across many countries of the Asia-Pacific region, it has led to setbacks in the fight to end hunger and malnutrition, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) announced today. The Asia-Pacific region is home to more than half of […]

Boston – Global law firm K&L Gates LLP recently secured judgment in favor of Lenovo (United States) Inc., one of the world’s largest data center technology vendors offering expert capability in servers, storage, networking and software defined solutions, in a patent infringement action filed by Intellectual Ventures I [and II] […]