About 416 million people working across the global food system earn too little to meet their basic needs, according to a new analysis by the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food
Located some 45 meters above ground in central Tokyo, the rooftop garden at Roppongi Hills complex on Saturday welcomed city-bred children and residents in the area to experience reaping rice. Around 170
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Even after toiling hard for an entire year, Shivaji Rao, a 37-year-old farmer, would find it hard to cover the basic expenses of his family. He cultivates maize from his one-and-a-half-acre land
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by Edgardo Ayala In his green cornfield, Salvadoran farmer Medardo Pérez set about filling the hand-held spray pump that hangs on his back, with the right mixture of water and paraquat, a
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Thirty years ago, in my economics textbook in India, the section on international trade referred to Argentina. It would be better, according to the textbook, for Argentina to concentrate on the production
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As for food security, the foundation would do better by supporting agroecological (agrochemical-free) approaches to agriculture, which various high-level UN reports have advocated for ensuring equitable global food security. This would leave
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