SINGAPORE, May 2 2022 (IPS) – Amidst a backdrop of rising food insecurity worldwide and a global food supply chain crisis, many countries are attempting to increase the level of food self-production. One improved input for farming which is receiving renewed attention is improved seed. The two most populous countries in the world, China and India, have recently made ground-breaking moves to improve their competitive position by developing new seeds which will improve their food production and increase resilience to climate change. So far, in 2022, new regulations on using biotechnology () have been put in place by both countries to ultimately allow smallholder farmers to benefit from these new seeds.
TORONTO, Canada, Dec 22 2023 (IPS) – The year 2023 has brought so much tragedy, with incomprehensible loss of lives, whether from wars or devastating ‘natural’ disasters, while our planet has seen yet more records broken as our climate catastrophe worsens.
And so as the clock ticks towards the (mostly western) New Year, readers are traditionally subjected by media outlets like ours to the yearender —usually a roundup of main events over the previous 12 months, one horror often overshadowed by the next.
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So forgive us if, for 2023, IPS takes a somewhat different approach, highlighting how humanity can do better and how the big depressing pi…