28 Nov 2019 --- Leveraging finance to scale climate-smart rice production is the cornerstone of global food security and is urgently needed to avert civil unrest, a new report by Earth Security Group (ESG) has found. This research stresses that rice is a “largely overlooked” investment opportunity, with a “radical overhaul” needed in Asia and Africa. ESG’s findings are being presented to an audience of policymakers at the upcoming 2019 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 25) in Madrid, Spain.
