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Food is part of nature, and nature is inherently regenerative – it can renew itself. For billions of years, organisms in living systems have grown, thrived, and died, becoming food for a new cycle to begin. We can redesign our food system to reflect this natural cycle more closely and …

Isolated during the Cold War, Russia is once again experiencing the same fate during the conflict it started with Ukraine. Since Russia has a major role in the world’s energy production, agricultural commodities and metals, the country’s exclusion from global trade and finance due to the stifling Western sanctions has …

Some countries tend to restrict food product exports to protect domestic markets with concern over possible global food crisis… Sugar Food protectionism gained traction across the world because of fear of a possible global food crisis amid a continued war between the world’s two largest food suppliers, Russia and Ukraine. …

Ukraine world’s top exporter of sunflower seeds, 4th-biggest wheat exporter, 5th-largest corn exporter, report says… Wheat The Ukraine-Russia war is to likely cause major disruptions in global food markets, the World Bank Group said in a report published Wednesday. The two countries combined produce a quarter of the world’s wheat, …

New FAO and ITU study highlights the benefits from the use of digital technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa… The digital revolution currently underway in Sub-Saharan Africa offers enormous potential for economic growth and agricultural productivity. Coastal countries benefit from fast internet, thanks to undersea cables, and 4G mobile networks are expanding …

With climate change, global warming and changing land use patterns, wildfires like those that have scorched Turkiye, Indonesia, California and vast swathes of Argentine wetland are set to occur more frequently in coming decades, causing spikes in unhealthy smoke pollution, death and destruction and other problems that governments are ill-prepared …

A recent article published on the website of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply reveals that since the 2000s, Brazil has been leading the world agricultural productivity among 187 countries, obtaining an increase rate of 3.18% per year.The study was released in October by the Economic Research Service, an …

Amid Russia’s war on Ukraine and rising commodity prices, wheat prices up by 30% on weekly basis… The price of wheat on Tuesday hit a historic new high of $13.63 per bushel. Amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war and rising commodity prices, wheat prices have climbed 30% on a weekly basis …

The continued steep rise in food price inflation, from 3.4% in 2019 to 5.7% at the beginning of this year, remains a major concern for South Africa, as it is exacerbating poverty and food insecurity among the country’s poorest households. The sharp rise in food inflation is driven by both …