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The U.S. is the largest exporter of food on the planet. American farms contributed about 0.6 per cent to overall gross domestic product in 2019, while direct on-farm employment accounted for 1.3 per cent of U.S. employment. This farm is in Illinois. (Photo: © Gerald D. Tang | Dreamstime.com)
The U.S. is the largest exporter of food on the planet. American farms contributed about 0.6 per cent to overall gross domestic product in 2019, while direct on-farm employment accounted for 1.3 per cent of U.S. employment. This farm is in Illinois. (Photo: © Gerald D. Tang | Dreamstime.com)
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The Netherlands is the world’s second largest agricultural exporter. Climate and geography both play roles in the country’s productivity. Shown here is a tomato nursery and greenhouse in Harmelen. (Photo: Kloeg008)
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The U.S. is the largest exporter of food on the planet. American farms contributed about 0.6 per cent to overall gross domestic product in 2019, while direct on-farm employment accounted for 1.3 per cent of U.S. employment. This farm is in Illinois. (Photo: © Gerald D. Tang | Dreamstime.com)
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Wageningen University in the Netherlands may be the best agricultural university in the world. It is focused on developing high value-added products for export. (Photo: Vincent)
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By one account, 33 per cent of China’s population — or more than the entire population of the U.S. — works in agriculture. Shown here are tea harvesters in Muyu Town in Hubei province. (Photo: Vmenkov)
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A full 40 per cent of German pork goes abroad. Shown here are young pigs on an organic farm in Dresden. (Photo: © Stefan Rotter | Dreamstime.com)
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Brazil was the second-largest producer of beef behind the United States in 2020, and the largest global exporter, exporting approximately one fifth of its production. (Photo: © Toniflap | Dreamstime.com)
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Comoros produces and exports vanilla, ylang ylang flower extracts and cloves, but spends the proceeds from those to feed its population with imports from abroad. (Photo: Haryamouji)
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A Yemeni child holds some food from a World Food Programme (WFP) at a WFP-supported nutrition clinic treating malnutrition among children. (Photo: WFP/Issa-Al-Raghi)
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Agriculture accounts for up to 27 per cent of Benin’s GDP, yet food is one of Benin’s largest imports. (Photo: Africa Rice Centre)
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In spite of being one of the poorest, most densely populated countries on the African continent, 33.2 per cent of The Gambia’s imports were food in 2019, and yet agriculture constitutes the country’s primary economic activity. (Photo: Ikiwaner)
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Sao Tome and Principe has fertile volcanic soils, but its lack of infrastructure and remoteness hamper access to markets and available labour. (Photo: Helena Van Eykeren)
