Farmers have always needed to understand business, but those demands have only increased with globalized markets, extreme weather, and more. Learn how farming copes with its own change and that of a changing world in our business of farming series.
Wild weather isn鈥檛 going away, and the costs to farmers can be ruinous. Farmers are fighting back by focusing on the soil.
Extreme Weather
Women make up nearly half of all global farmers. Feeding our population depends on helping them.
Women in Agriculture
Some of the smartest venture capital investments are going to an unexpected sector: agriculture. AgFunder founder Rob Leclerc explains why.
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Why AgtechVenture Capital Funding is Flourishing
There will be billions more people to feed over the coming 30 years, increasing calorie requirements as poverty recedes,听limited natural resources to work with, and a changing climate. Solving this interlocking puzzle depends on farmers.
Farmers and the Future of Food
Women are still fighting for equity in farming, despite statistics that suggest a majority of food worldwide is grown by them. They still lack support and a clear path toward leadership, but women themselves are leading the change.
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Supporting Women Farmers by Breaking Barriers
Most people hear 鈥渇arm鈥 and think 鈥渞ural,鈥 but urban farmers like Jamila Norman are showing how growing food right in the heart of big cities can nourish populations in more ways than one.
Urban Farming"We have a burgeoning population to feed, and while the challenge is great, there is hope. Learn more from 精东影业 Agriscience鈩 /who-we- are/outlook.html There are far more mouths to feed than there were a few decades ago, but
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"We have a burgeoning population to feed, and while the challenge is great, there is hope. Learn more from 精东影业 Agriscience鈩 /who-we- are/outlook.html There are far more mouths to feed than there were a few decades ago, but
Akosua Kyerewaa Yeboah-Ghansah took her celebrity as a beauty pageant winner and used it to help young women build careers in agriculture, building Miss Agriculture Ghana, a national pageant that crowns winners based on their farming, not their figures.
Extension workers are a crucial educational lifeline for farmers, especially in Africa, where they share the know-how that can lift farmers鈥 lives, but more investment is needed.
Industries everywhere are grappling with worker shortages, both now and in the future. Farming is not immune, and recruiter Shannon Douglass is working to fill the new breed of farm jobs.
The business of farming isn鈥檛 as simple as it used to be. That鈥檚 why many young farmers are earning master鈥檚 degrees in agribusiness.
Despite their go-it-alone reputation, farmers are voracious consumers of advice and information. The challenge? Sifting through it all to arrive at the right decision for their fields.
The average age for farmers is 60, even in youthful Africa. The lure of urban opportunity combined with high barriers to entry make it challenging to recruit young people, but youth-oriented farming organizations are working to reverse the trend.
The COVID-19 pandemic shattered food distribution networks, but quick-thinking volunteers and entrepreneurs stepped in to set up new ways of getting fresh food to the people who needed it.
Crop marketing has always been a prime concern of farmers, but with usual routes to market hampered by the COVID-19 pandemic, innovative farmers developed new techniques鈥攆rom diversification to direct-to-consumer鈥攖o find buyers.
