At the bustling Indian Ocean port of Beira, in Mozambique, steel cranes stack containers full of raw tobacco leaves into ships’ holds, ready for export to processing plants around the world.

China has come to crave milk. Demand that had been steadily growing has spiked further after doctors touted its health benefits amid the coronavirus pandemic and dairy firms across the country have embarked on a farm-building frenzy.

When Boris Johnson became prime minister of the United Kingdom in 2019, he pledged to “liberate the U.K.’s extraordinary bioscience sector from anti–genetic modification rules.

If Bill Gates has his way, the food in our future will little resemble what’s on our plates today. Gates and his agribusiness industry partners are proposing to radically transform our food and how it is produced. 

African universities need to increase investment in postgraduate training to produce the knowledge and human resources needed to support the agriculture sector.

Climate change is a global threat and so only global solutions will help mitigate its worst effects. Yet some countries will have far more of a role than others, seeing as their carbon footprints are far larger than those of other nations