U.S. lawmakers urge White House to inclu...

WASHINGTON, March 14 (Xinhua) -- A bipartisan group of 114 House members sent a letter Thursday to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, urging the Trump administration to include agriculture

IFAD launches global campaign to close g...

ROME, March 8 (Xinhua) -- Closing the gender gap and boosting the female role in agriculture was crucial to improve the wealth of rural communities, the United Nations International Fund for Agricult

VCs have growing appetite for “AgriFood”

Venture investors are pouring billions of dollars into feeding their hunger for food and agriculture startups. Whether that trend line is due to enthusiasm for the sector or just broader heavy investi

International agro-pastoral summit kicks...

YAOUNDE, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- A four-day international agro-pastoral summit organized by the Cameroonian government in partnership with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) opene

Fijians need to treat agriculture as bus...

SUVA, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- Fiji's agriculture minister Mahendra Reddy said on Monday that Fijians needed to treat agriculture as a business so it could survive. Minister for Agriculture, Rural and Mar