Measures put in place to control the spread of the COVID-19 virus could lead to a massive disruption to food supplies.

Índia e China se engajaram em uma temporada de confrontos, provocações e desentendimentos na região contestada de Ladakh, no Himalaia. Quais as chances de conflito militar e quais grupos têm interesse na deterioração das relações entre as duas potências nucleares?

China estimates that by 2030, when its population is expected to reach 1.5 billion, it will need to produce an additional 100 million tons of food grains each year.

(Main photo: a surveyor sits on a construction site in Ningbo, China, on April 26, 2020. Local governments have long offered firms connected to China’s political elite land sale discounts. Photo: Bloomberg)

Main photo: new high-rise apartments are under construction in villages around Heze, in eastern China's Shandong province. Rural residents say these complexes are too expensive, too far away from their fields and ill-suited for farmers (Amy Cheng/NPR)

Namgyal Durbuk knows the steep mountainous terrain of Ladakh like the back of his hand. But in the 45 years he has lived here, along the Indian state’s volatile and poorly defined border with neighbouring China, he has watched Indian land disappear before his eyes.