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Agricultural Production

Myanmar’s Agricultural Economy Amid Climate and Socio-Political Challenges

Nov 17th, 2024 • by Windia Soe

Myanmar faces significant agricultural economic challenges as climate risks and socio-political factors intensify, increasing the urgent need for resilience, sustainable practices, and effective disaster management to ensure food security and protect livelihoods.   

Key Takeaways:

 Myanmar’s agriculture, the backbone of the economy, faces severe climate risks, including floods that impact food production, GDP, and community stability.

Resource-poor rice farmers in Myanmar suffer double impact from political conflict

Nov 12th, 2024 • by Hiroyuki Takeshima, Zin Wai Aung, Ian Masias, and Bart Minten

History shows that as agricultural technologies have gradually improved, food production has grown. Yet adverse economic, political, or disaster-related shocks can disrupt this pattern. Since 2021, the political crisis in Myanmar has led to a deterioration in positive technological change, with particularly worrisome effects on smallholder farmers, a new study published in the journal Agricultural Economics shows.

FAO Food Price Index Sees Largest Monthly Increase Since May 2022

Oct 9th, 2024 • by Sara Gustafson

In September, the FAO Food Price Index saw the largest month-on-month increase since May 2022, rising 3 percent from August. While the Index is 2 percent higher than its September 2023 level, it remains over 22 percent below its March 2022 peak.

Reviving public extension for climate-resilient agriculture: Lessons and insights from India, Indonesia, and Nepal

Jun 16th, 2024 • by Suresh Babu, Yogendra Kumar Karki, Aniq Fadhillah, and Nandita Srivastava

With global temperatures already 1.2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, climate change is having major impacts on agriculture that fall disproportionately on the Global South—from crops, to livestock, to aquaculture. Agricultural systems endure frequent heat waves, flooding, and drought—often all in one season. Climate-related extreme weather events such as intense rainstorms pose a serious threat to crops.