The Challenges of Growing Seaweed

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Rihanna runs a course teaching people how to grow it and why it's such a useful thing to farm. The academy has been inundated with people trying to set up farms of their own. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, worldwide production reached 36 million tons in 2019. 97% of the world's seaweed is grown in Asia and 97% of it is consumed there too.

In a first since 2018, America’s secretary of state is visiting China amid escalating tensions between both countries. Can diplomats successfully stabilise the strained relationship? Latin American countries are in a developmental limbo. We explore why this is disproportionately affecting single mothers. And, come with us to a British seaweed farm bubbling with economic potential.