Food and agriculture stand today at a crossroads, with an increasing population putting pressure on limited resources. With a number of initiatives, the United Nations is striving to promote sustainable agriculture and show the impact this can have on tackling the world’s greatest challenges.

The world's top ten crops - barley, cassava, maize, oil palm, rapeseed, rice, sorghum, soya bean, sugarcane and wheat - supply a combined 83% of all calories produced on cropland.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve watched my social media feed overflow with reactions to the recently published IPCC report ‘Global Warming of 1.5C’.

With another new year coming in, it is always a good time to start reflecting on the previous year and looking ahead to what is next.

South Africa is among a handful of countries that experience winter rainfall in some areas and summer rainfall in others.

By using precision gene engineering techniques, researchers at the Earlham Institute in Norwich have been able to turn tobacco plants into solar-powered factories for moth sex pheromones.

By and large, global grains and oilseeds prices have continued to trend lower.