Brazil is the largest exporter of beef, and second only to the United States in raw production, in the world. The largest beef producing company in the world, JBS, is located in Brazil. And yet the United States, the largest consumer of beef in the world (in total, not per capita), has been largely closed […]

Locust swarms garner biblical headlines, understandable both for the locust’s place in famous biblical stories and for the frankly berserk behavior of these insects. But that does a disservice to the people of East Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia, where this winter, a swarm of locusts has destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres […]

As the planet undergoes climate change, there has been a general understanding that perhaps there will be some silver linings. Among those possible silver linings is that there is a vast amount of land that’s just slightly too cold for substantial agriculture. If that area is just a few degrees warmer, could we have a […]