The cultivation of Japanese native wasabi is the most recent addition to Hong Kong's high-tech vertical farming boom. Harvests of wasabi, a staple ingredient in Japanese cuisine, have fallen by 60% in ...
The Japanese government aims to convert at least 25% of all its farmland to organic by 2050, a significant jump from just 0.5% in 2020. Researchers found that urban and semi-urban farmers in Tokyo ...
Humans have physically reconfigured half of the world’s land to grow just eight staple crops: maize (corn), soy, wheat, rice, cassava, sorghum, sweet potato and potato. They account for the vast ...