NEW: Many food-insecure developing economies with significant hunger lack the resources to self-finance agricultural R&D & have to depend on themselves—& one another—to meet rising food needs.
@cullenhendrix.bsky.social argues that BRICS+ are well positioned to fill the world’s food security gap.

As US food aid retreats, can BRICS+ and biotechnology fill the world’s food security gap?
Cuts to agricultural development assistance and food aid by the United States and other advanced economies are creating a global vacuum just as climate change and conflict drive global hunger up. Many...