The UN trade and development agency UNCTAD has warned that a closure of the Strait of Hormuz could raise food prices and living costs worldwide, with Asia most affected.
The Burkina Faso Agricultural Transformation Project, approved by the World Bank, will raise productivity, modernise processing and open markets for rice and maize in four of the country's seventeen regions.
CookingRooh Afza, the rose-scented sharbat that grew out of the Unani physician Hakim Hafiz Abdul Majeed's Hamdard Dawakhana in old Delhi, founded in 1906, survived Partition to become a Ramadan staple in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. A March 2026 look at its history, a supply crisis and its court cases.
In Choluteca, women who began by filling bags and transplanting seedlings now sit on cooperative boards, run forklifts and preside over producer unions, backed by the ComRural II project.
FlowersThe 2024 Census of Horticultural Specialties, released by USDA on 26 February 2026, put American floriculture, nursery and specialty crop sales at $18.3 billion across 23,060 operations, with nursery stock the largest line.
International reports say many Medjool dates sold worldwide are Israeli produce grown on occupied Palestinian land, and Palestinian growers explain how shoppers can tell them apart.
Half of the Medjool dates sold worldwide are Israeli and grown mainly on occupied Palestinian land, a fact concealed when they are sold, Al Jazeera reported.
Much of the world's Medjool dates come from Israel, and a significant share is grown on occupied Palestinian land and sold with its origin disguised, Al Jazeera reports.
LivestockUS milk output rose 32 percent between 2004 and 2024 while the number of licensed dairy herds fell 63 percent, USDA economists found, as production moved to larger, more mechanised farms.
A commercial farm in Makueni County grows Maasai love grass for Kenya's 18 million cattle, backed by a World Bank programme that has put $40 million behind ten private ventures linked to pastoralism.
Police in Vietnam found two tiger carcasses in a household freezer and arrested two men on charges of illegally trading the endangered animal.
AgribusinessThe Government of Senegal and the World Bank Group launched the AgriConnect Senegal Compact in Dakar on February 10, 2026. Focused on grains, horticulture and livestock, it aims by 2029 for more than 90 percent food security, 800,000 formal jobs and 100 farm cooperatives.
LivestockIn early February 2026 Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture launched passports for camels, documenting each animal's identity, owner, breed and vaccinations. Government figures put the herd at about 2.2 million, worth more than two billion riyals a year to the economy.
