To avoid domestic food price spikes during COVID-19 lockdowns, major agricultural producers such as Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia temporarily capped exports of staple crops. The resulting market distortions underscored import-dependent countries’ vulnerabilities to food supply… [Read more]
Tag: Agriculture
Seed Patenting and the Threat to Food Security: The losers of global seed market consolidation
“A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab and can’t travel any way but sideways and backwards,” wrote American novelist Mark Twain. A patent formalises the right of the… [Read more]
Deforestation Is The Highest in Over 15 Years – Industry Actors Must Commit To Its Mitigation
Professional Year student Luke Sherman discusses the increasing importance of deforestation mitigation and actor responsibilities as a vital area, necessary to stop the climate from reaching its next tipping points. It is difficult to determine an… [Read more]