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Feeding 10 billion

17 March 2016

  • Salmon

    Methane-eating bacteria could reduce the impact of our big appetite for fish

    Conventional fish feed is hard on the environment. A California-based company is aiming to produce a non-animal, non-vegetable alternative

11 March 2016

  • A shopkeeper and his sales assistant wait for customers inside a family-owned grocery store in an alley in the old quarters of Delhi.

    Walmart and Tesco won’t help India’s food security problems

    Foreign supermarkets are looking to gain ground in India but a western-style retail sector may not improve food security

27 February 2016

  • Malawian subsistence farmer Rozaria Hamiton plants sweet potatoes near the capital Lilongwe, Malawi February 1, 2016. Late rains in Malawi threaten the staple maize crop and have pushed prices to record highs.About 14 million people face hunger in Southern Africa because of a drought that has been exacerbated by an El Nino weather pattern, according to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). Picture taken with fish eye lens. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings

    New index ranks Monsanto, Dupont and Syngenta on efforts to help smallholders

    The word’s leading seed companies traditionally have a poor record of reaching farmers in food insecure regions

18 February 2016

  • Lettuce in indoor farm

    Automated farming: good news for food security, bad news for job security?

    New technology is revolutionising modern farming, but this brave new world of robot farms and hi-tech sensors could have consequences for rural livelihoods

11 February 2016

  • Vegetable market

    The rise of internet veg box schemes in sub-Saharan Africa

    Online grocery startups in Kenya, Rwanda and Gambia help farmers cut out the middleman, but challenges such as low internet access may hinder profitability

3 February 2016

  • A boy walks through a field of crops

    How much do you know about the world's food security challenges? Take the quiz

    Demand for food is growing but arable land is being lost, millions are obese but millions still face hunger. Can you put exact figures to these problems?
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