Developing countries have been slow to react to the alien species problem. Its impact can be massively reduced if policies are developed to deal with the issue.
The minimum wage is rising in many parts of Canada, but it masks the impact of seismic changes to the agriculture, food and retail industries brought about by new technologies.
Technology, like this tea-picking machine in Kenya, can harness agriculture’s power to change lives.
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Climate change, rising food demand and globalization are putting pressure on world food production. New research explores the risk of failures in several of the world’s breadbasket regions at once.
Ugandan worker picking tea as exports in the country grows.
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Kenya’s high consumer food prices are worrying because they are unresponsive to the policies pursued. The country needs to address this and improve planning to attain stability.
Tlou Masehela, South African National Biodiversity Institute
Beekeeping cannot depend on a single forage source. This makes the business of ensuring bees have what they need to stay healthy a precarious business.
Workers harvesting from a commercial farm in Ethiopia.
Reuters/Barry Malone
Many African countries are still searching for inclusive commercial farming models that can bring in private investment without dispossessing local people.
Africa’s scientists are doing remarkable work.
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Managing Director, Triple Helix Consulting; Chief Executive Officer, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research; Professorial Fellow, ANU Fenner School for the Environment and Society, Australian National University