Food Security and Inflation are Increasingly Drivers of Geopolitical Action Food security is becoming a critical factor in geopolitics. The US seems better positioned than most as a net exporter of …
The Global Food Security Crisis: Russia Pulls Out of the Black Sea Grain Initiative (But Continues to Smuggle Grain)
Russia has notified Turkey, Ukraine and the UN that it will not renew a deal that allowed Ukraine to export grain through the Black Sea. Ukrainian wheat production plays a significant role in global …
Blockchain Technologies are the Future of Food Security and Food Safety
A shout-out and a thank you to the Ontario, Canada-based Blockchain Research Institute (BRI) and the authors of this research. BRI allows for the distribution of a high percentage of its blockchain …
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Global Food Security, Grain Shipments from Ukraine and Tracking Russia’s Phantom Ships
Bellingcat, aided by satellite imagery service Planet, and CNN, with imagery from Maxar Technologies, both provide evidence that Russia continues to steal grain shipments from Ukraine - rerouting the …
The Future of Food Security: The Precision Farming Project and NASA Harvest
Following are case studies of state-of-the-art advanced computational platforms - specifically computer graphics, multi-player networking, and high-resolution, satellite-based earth imaging - …
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Global Drought Conditions and Food Security: Follow the Fertilizer
These days, you never know where the next strategic metric will emerge. As OODA CEO wrote in the OODA Alamanac 2022: "In 2022 our national decision-making apparatus will be significantly stressed …
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World food security risks growing, Chatham House says
"The world's food security is increasingly reliant on 14 'chokepoints' for seaborne trade, a think-tank report has warned." Source: World food security risks growing, Chatham House says - BBC News …
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Mozambique destroyed its last landmine. That’s a victory for food security
"Last week, deminers in Mozambique detonated the country’s last-known landmine. It took 22 years to rid them all, more than 200,000 total. Decades of conflict had ruptured the country, with a 10-year …
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Ebola threatens food security in West Africa
The world's worst Ebola epidemic has put harvests at risk and sent food prices soaring in West Africa, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Tuesday, warning the problem would …
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U.N. warns food security a risk to Asia-Pacific
"The world must increase its food production by 60 percent by mid-century or risk serious food shortages that could bring social unrest and civil wars, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) …
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