Food and agriculture

World Food Day is framed as making every dollar count and, in the preview, as the changing calculus of food. The 10 October highlights, read in full, add a survey of 5,500 farmers who are becoming selective in their spending, with artificial intelligence making inroads while purchasing still leans on trusted advisers. That is the cost and value line. It is not a harvest story.

A chart is titled around farmers growing cautious. The 23 September Perspectives digest pairs leadership holding AI back with farmers adapting, and with Asia facing an aging future. Dairy, which also sits in consumer, is the demand-side counterpart: executives bullish because of protein. A weekend read points at AI on the farm without, in the subject, saying what the AI does.