AS 2024 unfolds, let us be more conscious of the need to make the local and global food system more efficient, productive and sustainable, especially with the three Cs still affecting agriculture.

With the three Cs — lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change and geopolitical conflicts — we can no longer approach agriculture with a 'business-as-usual' attitude. If we still insist on that approach, we will surely see a drastic decline in food production in the near future, and more people driven to poverty, or worse, hunger.