Agriculture
Finance & economics
Japan is obsessed with rice. And prices have gone ballistic
Politicians are reaching for increasingly extreme measures
Science & technology
Climate change will hurt the richest farmers—and the poorest
Even with realistic adaptation, crop yields will fall as temperatures rise
The Americas
Brazilian supercows are taking over the world
What a bovine beauty pageant says about the future of the world’s beef supply
Asia
Japan faces a reckoning over rice
A crisis over its staple reveals cracks in the country’s food system
United States
America is facing a beef deficit
Donald Trump’s tariff plans will make it worse, and burgers dearer
Middle East & Africa
Abiy Ahmed’s agricultural revolution is too good to be true
The prime minister claims to have made Ethiopia Africa’s breadbasket. The numbers disagree
United States
Donald Trump’s foreign-aid cuts threaten his rural voters
The teardown of USAID threatens a programme that benefits farmers
Middle East & Africa
How to go from fish lover to fish farmer
Expanding aquaculture in Africa could have many benefits
Science & technology
Heritable Agriculture, a Google spinout, is bringing AI to crop breeding
By reducing the cost of breeding, the firm hopes to improve yields and other properties for an array of important crops
International
What has four stomachs and could change the world?
Technology is transforming cattle farming, but not fast enough
