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Knowledge Pele, Costa Rica’s Environment Ministry and Sussex University Launch Sustainability Research Collaboration

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The World Wildlife Foundation has demonstrated that, “humanity must now produce more food in the next four decades than we have in the last 8,000 years of agriculture combined”[1]. This growing global food crisis is in tandem with an escalating climate crisis. It therefore stands to reason that solutions to the food crisis must factor in climate change. In addition, historical social issues persist. Women remain on the periphery of the global economy. Specifically, in reference to the agriculture sector, the United Nations reports that ‘globally, women are just 13 per cent of agricultural land…

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