In an interview, Doug Casey comments:

 Brazil is expected to become the leading soybean producer worldwide surpassing the United States, according to a Dec. 27 Global Agricultural Information Network report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

According to a new report on food security and nutrition, the hunger in Africa is still rising and the continent is not on track to meet the “Zero Hunger” goal set by the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations by 2050.

London/New York/Singapore — It’s time for some 2020 foresight in raw materials. After commodities posted a 10% advance in 2019, how will crude to coffee fare in the months to come?

The Rwanda Agriculture Board (RAB) has started testing True Potato Seeds, which are produced by Solynta, a Dutch firm that develops hybrid potatoes.

Why did we take so long to invent civilization? Modern Homo sapiens first evolved roughly 250,000 to 350,000 years ago.