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agriculture

Key advantages of long-read sequencing make it the technology of choice for many new scientific projects. : DNA sequence by ssalonso is available at https://bit.ly/3YaOmDL CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Cost, availability and sample preservation are the main concerns but progress is rapid.

Gene screen

The race to improve DNA sequencing

Cost, availability and sample preservation are the main concerns but progress is rapid.

Economy
New sequencing technologies bring valuable benefits but equitable access may be a challenge. : ‘Strawberries at Out Standing in the Field’ by SanFranAnnie is available at https://bit.ly/41mGl16 CC BY-SA 2.0

Advances in the field are revolutionary but require safeguards to curb misuse.

Gene screen

DNA could ensure strawberry fields forever

Advances in the field are revolutionary but require safeguards to curb misuse.

Economy
Wheat, grown in vast fields, cannot easily be protected by glasshouses : Dag Endresen CC 2.0

As climate change enters uncharted territory, we will need all the skills of the past, and some from the future, to keep feeding the world.

Science against the clock

Future food depends on the cutting edge

As climate change enters uncharted territory, we will need all the skills of the past, and some from the future, to keep feeding the world.

Environment
Dialogic accounting would better serve women’s empowerment in the microfinance context. : ‘Guatemala – Rural Women’ by UN Women is available at https://bit.ly3SIqx4b CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

Microfinance doesn’t always empower the women reliant on it, but a different form of accounting could help level the playing field.

Empowering women to reduce poverty

Accounting for microfinance’s flaws

Economy
The nutritional quality of many Indians’ diets have deteriorated since the start of the pandemic. : Melissa Viiron, Unsplash CC BY 4.0

One in five children in India are too thin, and yet at the same time obesity levels are on the rise.

Affordable nutrition

India’s double edged nutrition problem

Health
Corn in the USA is often grown to feed cattle : Ammodramus (Wikimedia) cc 4.0

The world’s farmers grow crops for food as well as other uses. Those other uses threaten to crowd out our chance to feed the world’s hungry.

Affordable nutrition

Non-food crops are eating up our food

Environment
Affordability of nutritious food is a major problem in many parts of the world. : Michael Joiner, 360info CC BY 4.0

Backgrounder: 602 words

360info is exploring the evidence on nutritious and affordable food from multiple country perspectives.

8 perspectives

9 perspectives
Special Report

Affordable nutrition

Economy
A precise mix of policy and intervention is needed to foster innovation without pricing people out of accessing essential goods and services. : Michael Joiner, 360info CC BY 4.0

Backgrounder: 697 words

Global perspectives on the state of intellectual property

7 perspectives

7 perspectives
Special Report

Who owns IP

Law
The rights of Indian farmers are in black and white in Indian law and an international treaty. : Ben Sutherland, Flickr CC BY 2.0

A battle between PepsiCo and Indian farmers highlights the gap between international trade law and countries seeking to protect their farmers' seed rights.

Who owns IP

You say potato, I say property rights

Economy