Urban agriculture

The province of Almeria in Spain was known as “the desert of Europe.”

Hollywood producers had used its arid and treeless landscape for filming in westerns and even “Lawrence of Arabia”.

Today the area is dubbed “the garden of Europe”, as it is covered by hundreds of greenhouses that produce food in all seasons and are exported around the world.

Türkiye aims to increase its food and agricultural products export revenues to $50 billion in 2028, says Mustafa Gültepe, the president of the Turkish Exporters' Assembly (TİM).

The country generated some $27 billion in food and agricultural products exports last year.

Vertical farming, a type of agriculture practice that has the ability to produce up to 40 times more produce than conventional farming techniques, is currently seeing a rapid expansion under the leadership of the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry.

Across Ukraine, the war has forced grain growers into a vicious dilemma. Farmers in areas now free from Russian occupation are risking their lives to strip their land of explosives before the critical spring planting season.

The new management of the Antonis Tritsis Park in the western Athens suburb of Ilion will be offering local residents who are having trouble making ends meet small parcels of land where they can grow their own vegetables.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has put Bulgarian agriculture in front of serious challenges due to the unprecedented increase in the price of basic production resources - energy, fertilizers, feed, uncertainty in the agricultural markets, and the crisis has further worsened the traditional low liquidity of small farms in our country.

World food prices fell for a ninth month in a row in December but hit their highest level on record for the full year in 2022, U.N. data have showed.    

Food prices soared to a monthly record high in March after Russia invaded agricultural powerhouse Ukraine, a major supplier of wheat and cooking oil to the world.    

The number of people living in hunger in Brazil has surged 73 percent in the past two years, a "historic setback" for a country that had made huge gains against poverty, a report said.    

According to the UN organization, the number of people facing acute food insecurity had jumped from 135 million to 276 million since 2019

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