Today’s Solutions: August 17, 2026

Amid the looming sustainability challenges of our time is how the world will feed 2.5 billion more people in a few decades — even as rising sea levels and warmer temperatures take away some arable land. Farm productivity will need to increase and food waste decrease if 9 billion people are to have enough food to survive. And those productivity gains will be most needed in developing nations in Africa, southern Asia and Latin America…

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