This week: Ronald Guendal, Bayer Crop Science’s global head of food security and advocacy, on the factors influencing change in food supply security, and emerging trends in farming techniques and use of inputs that are designed to sustainably boost productivity. And CottonConnect CEO Alison Ward on how to develop engaging projects – such as CottonConnect’s partnership with Primark – that can empower smallholder farmers at scale.
Plus: climate change at the UN, Bolsonaro hits back at critics, IPCC assesses warming impacts, Japanese seafood, and Coca-Cola’s switch to cardboard packaging, in the news digest.
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