The human race is facing an existential challenge in the 21st century: feeding a global population that’s expected to swell by 2 billion people to reach 9.7 billion by 2050. This incredible expansion will push the word’s agricultural supply to its limits, requiring a doubling in food production by 2050 just to keep pace with […]
Soil is arguably the most important resource for our world, as it supplies the majority of our nutritional needs. We can make do without meat, but the world’s population of 9 billion must have access to plants and plant-based foodstuffs supplied by our soil in agricultural settings. Yet non-stop farming can cause soil to become […]
Dairies come in different shapes and sizes—from giant factory-scale operations in developed nations, to tiny family farms in third-world countries. And whether big or small, these dairies play a massive role in countries’ economic output, with the agribusiness-dominated United States leading the world in milk production, while India—with its patchwork of small-scale farms—comes in second. […]