A plague of locusts.
Grain markets. Generally, countries with high wheat consumption and insufficient domestic production or specific quality requirements are the most frequent buyers. In 2024, the top importers by value included, Indonesia, Mainland China, Italy, The Philippines, Spain, Algeria and Japan. As of Friday, January 16, 2026, countries actively buying or seeking to buy wheat on the international market included Saudi Arabia, Jordan, China, Egypt, and members of the European Union.
Rewilding.
The idea of sequestering carbon into soil has been discussed for decades with the idea gaining momentum in the 1980's. The Paris climate conference in 2016 introduced a headline statement of “Four per thousand”. The idea being that if on a global basis, soil organic carbon could be increased by 0.4% AND subsequently maintained at a low but ever increasing rate the carbon sequestered would cancel out annual carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels. With this in mind all m
