Foreign Policy
Farms of the future: Precision growing, smart robotics and AI usher in new era of agriculture
Smart solutions allow farmers to exactly understand the crop needs and plan activities correspondingly, which saves costs and reduces environmental ...
‘They offer a magical vision of a better future but not in this world’: In Foreign Policy, social scientists opposed to conventional agriculture spark fierce organic vs intensive farming debate
A recent back and forth has stirred up controversy over at Foregin Policy. Are “Big Ag” and intensive farming destroying ...
Viewpoint: Is our western food system based on ‘intensive agriculture’ broken? Not if the environment and alleviating poverty and hunger matter
In the popular bourgeois imagination, the idealized farm looks something like the ones that sell produce at local farmers markets ...
With the age of biotechnology here, China’s spotty history with bioethics raises concerns
As China’s advances in biotechnology come closer to the secrets of life, they pose tantalizing prospects for the future. But when standards ...