By Martin Liu Edited By Courtney Schneider Introduction With a projected global population of 10 billion by 2050,1 countries face the difficult task of providing enough food to meet growing nutritional needs. Protein–a macronutrient vital to human health and development–is a key component of nutrition, with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the… Read more »
The trade war has caused farmers to stockpile grain, hoping for higher profits after the Chinese tariffs were lifted. Massive flooding in 2019 destroyed these stockpiles, leaving farmers to foot the bill.
It is a well-known fact to Mexican citizens, journalists and academics that, beginning 2007 when former President Felipe Calderon declared war on the drug cartels, Mexico became an extremely violent country: going from an average of 9,000 people killed a year to over 27,000. While the country’s murder rate still lags behind that of… Read more »