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Food Security in Egypt “Twenty loaves of bread for the cost of a cigarette”
6 February 2023

The price of subsidised bread in Egypt has not changed in decades, though the bread shrunk. That remains a huge challenge to security, for the government and the people.

Biodiversity at Liberty The EU casts off the chains of uniformity
9 January 2023

How farmers in Belgium and the south of France are taking advantage of new a EU regulation to become more sustainable

Empire and grain From prehistory to today, empires grew on their ability to tax grains
4 July 2022

The ability to tax wheat moving through choke points gives empires their power, even today.

Grain and finance The need to buy and sell wheat created modern commerce
27 June 2022

Wheat was money, when a store was no more than a store of goods to be exchanged for wheat.

Grain and transport As wheat travelled, it created the modern world
20 June 2022

Moving wheat from where it grows to where it is eaten shaped the world

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