Good idea, bad timing?
It's not clear whether the world's worst drought in over a century provided impetus for the agriculture ministers of the BRICS nations to gather in Brasilia in March and launch a manifesto designed to make the group a key player in the global food security regime. But they did. Now the world is waiting.
From a moral and business ethics perspective the effort makes sense ...
... Because of this, and rural education issues, non-agribusiness agriculture suffers from a “brain drain.” Among the BRICS there is a steady migration of brainpower from rural areas, away from farming, to more affluent, cosmopolitan cities.
Direct Planting Agriculture, Why Managing Change For A Sustainable Future Is A Big Challenge
Other than Brazil the BRICS have not met the challenge of adapting to modern conservation agricultural schemes that yield more with less overall expenditure, notably direct planting (sometimes called “no till agriculture”).
For more than three decades Brazil’s ...