There is a link between China’s plans to return to a position of global centrality and its food security. Beijing’s food security strategy has shifted toward overseas investments.

Although the problem of hunger is largely unnoticed in Australian society, more than one in five children (22%) live in a food insecure household.

This paper argues that if African countries can successfully harness their demography to drive economic growth, the continent will rapidly develop, leading to greater reductions in food insecurity.

Floods, droughts and more frequent extreme weather patterns are the main climate change effects Indonesia faces, and it stands to have a severe effect on food and water security for the country.

Despite trouble spots, there are grounds for long-term optimism in the development of African agriculture.