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Tech will transform emerging market farm productivity

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INTERNATIONAL

Agritech is addressing some of the long-standing problems of applying traditional agriculture business models to smallholder farmers in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs)…

Climate risks are spurring innovation in agriculture

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EUROPE

Innovation in agriculture.

CPEC may boost agriculture prospects in Pakistan

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PAKISTAN

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor's impact on agriculture.

New deal will raise biodiversity as a global priority

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INTERNATIONAL

Biodiversity loss is as much of a threat to life on earth as climate change. Without action, millions of species face extinction and ecosystems will cross irreversible tipping…

Hezbollah and Israel will avoid intentional escalation

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LEBANON

Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah -- a Shia militant group and political party -- last month announced that the organisation would shoot down any Israeli drones in…

Solar panel food output to rise alongside solar energy

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INTERNATIONAL

Agrivoltaics hold out the potential to lessen the competition for land between agriculture and solar power in net-positive ways. Crops help to cool solar panels, boosting their…

Technology delivers mixed development gains in Africa

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AFRICA

However, early hopes that digital technology would rapidly overcome the continent’s infrastructural weaknesses and enable governments to achieve 2030 UN Sustainable Development…

Risks of a Lebanon-Israel escalation are rising

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LEBANON/ISRAEL

As low-level cross-border exchanges of fire continue, multiple foreign embassies have withdrawn staff or dependents and advised citizens to leave Lebanon.

North Korea heads for economic crisis

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NORTH KOREA

The impact of sanctions on North Korea's economy.

Space solar power may solve key renewables challenge

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INTERNATIONAL

Using satellites to collect solar power in space and transmit it to earth to generate electricity overcomes a serious limitation of terrestrial renewable energy: its…