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Do students in information technologies (IT) have a role to play in agriculture in Pakistan? The answer is yes for two main reasons: first farming today requires much more knowledge than it used to a few decades ago; because of degradation of natural resources, particularly soils, changes in climate, and...

Despite its importance in terms of income, trade, employment, livelihood and nutrition and share in agriculture GDP, livestock sector has not received the attention it deserves. In order to harness, livestock potential and development in Pakistan meaningful collaborations between organizations are required. Taking a step in this direction Food and...

 Impact-based forecasts and warnings are increasingly being used worldwide to communicate the risks and potential impacts of climate-related disasters to the end users, thus enabling anticipatory action planning and reducing the impacts of these disasters. Experts and participants expressed these views during the workshop on “Impact-based Forecasting (IBF) and Anticipatory...

FAO Pakistan arranged a four day training on pyWAPOR, a tool developed by FAO allowing the calculation of Evapotranspiration (ET) anywhere on the globe, including Pakistan. The training enabled 25 different stakeholders understand the ET concept and estimate ET at different spatial scales using remote sensing data or satellite images.The...

Closeout ceremony of the project “The Horticulture Advancement Activity” (THAzA), was held in Islamabad on December 8, 2022. Funded by USAID, THAzA improved the livelihoods of rural farmers in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). It supported 12,000 businesses and created 1,300 jobs. It also ensured that rural farmers in these...