Highlights The production of the 2020 main season crops benefitted from expanded planting, which mostly offset yield losses due to floods and storms in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Production prospects for the 2020/21 minor early season winter/spring crops, for harvest [...]

Against the background of fast expanding trade and a surge in food import bills, which has come to characterise much of the developments shaping global food markets in 2020/21, early forecasts for 2021/22 point to resilient food trade and a [...]

Highlights Drought affected rainfed areas in northern parts of Iraq. Widespread crop failure in Ninewa Governorate and halved production in Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Decreased cereal production expected to cause loss of income, soaring feed prices and increased import requirements. 

This practice shows the services available to farmers by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries of Timor-Leste provides in pursuing the agriculture sector's modernization. It describes the importance of Conservation Agriculture (CA) and the CA model applied in Timor-Leste. It [...]

This practice describes the step-by-step approach to promote conservation agriculture implemented in Timor-Leste. It also describes the conservation agriculture (CA) principles and steps in adopting the CA package. This practice was tested in Timor-Leste, a tropical warm agroecologic zone. In areas [...]