London/New York/Singapore — It’s time for some 2020 foresight in raw materials. After commodities posted a 10% advance in 2019, how will crude to coffee fare in the months to come?

The Rwanda Agriculture Board (RAB) has started testing True Potato Seeds, which are produced by Solynta, a Dutch firm that develops hybrid potatoes.

Why did we take so long to invent civilization? Modern Homo sapiens first evolved roughly 250,000 to 350,000 years ago.

With another new year coming in, it is always a good time to start reflecting on the previous year and looking ahead to what is next.

Something over 82 million more people are alive this Christmas than have ever been alive before, as our world population moves inexorably towards the eight billion mark, due in now just over three years.

Given the change in global agricultural production and trade patterns that followed the Carter grain embargo in 1980, it is worth considering what changes may emerge in the years after the Trump era tariffs.