Farmers today are producing food under pressures that would have been unimaginable to previous generations. Input costs are rising, supply chains are increasingly unreliable, water is becoming scarcer, and weather patterns are less predictable. For a growing number of farmers -- in Sudan, Ukraine, Myanmar and Gaza -- the challenge is simply producing food amid active conflict.
These are no longer isolated circumstances. They reflect the reality facing hundreds of millions of farmers who grow the food on which the world depends.