Tens of thousands of farmers are bringing in their first rice harvest just six months after one of the worst typhoons to ever hit the Philippines left their fields in [...]

A Transform 2012 Dancelink team in Mondim, Portugal, clears the way for a Transform Transit team to see the Gospel bear fruit four months later.

Severe need and great openness meet OM’s workers during visits to an unreached region of Moldova.

Last July 16 - 31, OM worked together with six churches and another missionary organisation in an outreach that transformed hundreds of hearts in Irapuato. This city is located at the foot of Mexico’s Arandas Mountains, in the south central region of the state of Guanajuato. Five churches participated in sharing the gospel to individuals in the mornings and open airs in the afternoons, distributing over 10.500 brochures to 800 people who heard the good news.

OM EAST - Just before Easter 2010, the Hitchings travelled to Serbia with Simon (OM EAST) to deliver 1200 copies of "My First Bible" in Arli to the Arli church...

Meet Linda Villanueva, the first missionary sent out from the rural area of Talamanca, Costa Rica.

Workers see signs of awakening in one country in the Arabian Peninsula—where outwardly, the Gospel is prohibited, but inwardly, people are thirsty for truth.

An outreach team helps to harvest a field and a family.

Bandits, on Sunday night, attacked two villages – Kwaga and Ungwan Zako – in Birnin-Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State, setting fire to harvested maize on six farms. The devastating attacks caused anger in the villages as locals lamented their losses. The PUNCH learnt that the attack came barely 48 hours after a peace

With many media events getting pushed back, the news is a little trim this week. But we still manage to pull together our basket of zany personalities for a podcast we hope brings a smile to your face.

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One of my favourite satires is the Screwtape Letters, an epistolary novel by Narnia scribe C.S. Lewis. It consists of messages from an oily elder demon to his nephew about how to correctly groom the soul of an unsuspecting human being. It's a claustrophobic send-up of managerial politics and nepotism, with World War 1 unfolding in the background. A real pick-me-up. Sintopia is the Two Point incarnation of that premise - in other words, brighter and breezier and definitely more slapstick than Christian. It puts you in charge of a world divided between Earth and hell, and challenges you to ensure a steady movement of optimally sinful souls between one and the other. Say your prayers and watch the trailer.

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A quantum computing protocol makes it possible to extract energy from seemingly empty space, teleport it to a new location, then store it for later use

Each and every day new mobile games are hitting the App Store, and so each week we put together a …

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Harvest Moon: Home Sweet Home has been a very interesting game to follow pre-release. I say this not only because …

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Sep 3, 2015

The New Harvest argues that Africa can feed itself in a generation and help contribute to global food security despite its history of persistent food shortages and the rising threat of climate change. This new edition provides ideas on how to place agriculture at the center of the continent's long-term economic transformation. It demonstrates how policy coordination can help realize agriculture's full potential as a motherboard for other economic activities.

The full text of The New Harvest is available here.

Dec 8, 2016

"The goal of the book was to invest in thinking. It doesn't have a list of recommendations but generates options for action that are backed by evidence. We chose to forgo credit by adopting this approach, but it’s been very encouraging to see some key impacts that acknowledge the book."

Beloved Las Vegas Chef Roy Ellamar crafts creative market-driven dishes that celebrate regional produce at Harvest at Bellagio.

IWMI's Deputy Director General, Rachael McDonnell, spoke to NPR's Goats and Soda about fog harvesting, a traditional technique that is now being expanded.

The post How to harvest water from clouds of fog first appeared on International Water Management Institute (IWMI).

Inadequate infrastructure, together with rural and poor populations, makes Zambia highly vulnerable to droughts, according to the UN. But the drought monitoring system developed by IWMI helps to better prepare the country to cope with its impacts.

The post Prolonged droughts: Need for water harvesting first appeared on International Water Management Institute (IWMI).

A joint project educating Uttar Pradesh farmers on sustainable agriculture practices has helped improve output

The government subsidised the sale of a few commodities to improve domestic supply and arrest the sharp spikes in retail prices of wheat, rice, edible oils, pulses, tomato, and onion

A poor harvest could force the Centre to import wheat, palm oil, sunflower oil and soybean oil

The lockdown has impacted the pace of procurement, driving prices below MSP in MP and Rajasthan, even as costs incurred due to transport and harvesting have increased

The subjects are rarely discussed and have great potential, says its MD Munishwar Vasudeva

A local man shares his testimony, endures persecution and encourages others in the Near East to stand firm.

Local OM worker plants a church in a conservative Muslim village and sees fruit after ten years of prayer.

OM Ecuador experiences God’s awesome hand as they witness the transformation in people’s lives on Santay Island.

Private e-mandis, farm-to-fork startups and location tracking & geo-fencing tech platforms are helping farmers sell their produce amidst the lockdown.

The Netherlands has strongly benefited from globalisation, which boosted international trade, cross-border investment and economic growth over the latest decades.

Is contract farming the answer to the current woes confronting the nation's farmers, as various corporates claim? Or has the agri-business sector played the right trick at just the right time, with traditional agriculture in the doldrums in so many regions? Gagandeep Kaur reports.