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Studies on challenges to agriculture in Southeast Asia include one that analyzes the current concerns surrounding a potential rice crisis due to attacks on the infrastructure of Ukraine’s food export system and the onset of a severe El Niño in Asian rice-producing regions. The paper, titled “Back in the Soup:…
The demand for equitable access to quality education and healthcare should complement agriculture reforms in the country.
-- this post authored by Emily Green The COVID-19 pandemic hit meat processing facilities in the United States suddenly and dramatically. Between April 9 and April 27, more than 4,900 COVID-19 cases were reported among 115 different meat and poultry processing facilities. Rising cases and contamination fears led major processors, such as Smithfield, Va.-based Smithfield Foods, to shut down plants in April. During this period, large retailers like Kroger and Costco implemented meat rationing. These developments prompted President Donald Trump to invoke the Defense Production Act on April 28, c...