Japan must support young farmers and improve conditions for foreign agricultural workers to save the industry, writes Yusaku Yoshikawa (JIN Corporation).
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We're a major agricultural producer, but with supply chains increasingly battered by COVID and climate change, how solid is food security in Australia?
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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “shock and awe” invasion of neighboring Ukraine, the biggest attack on a European state since World War II, has been met with…
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What Xi Jinping’s latest comments on food security suggest about China’s priorities for 2022.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is about to face his biggest test in years in upcoming elections in the nation's most populous state.
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