Until I discovered journalism, I was convinced farming was the worst-paid job of all. And it seemed inevitable it would always be so.
The raw economics of globalisation and the boundless ingenuity of agricultural technologies – mechanical, chemical, biotechnical and now digital – seemed destined to drive the price of food ever lower.
Thomas Malthus’s dire prediction – that the world’s population will grow to the point where eventually we will all run out of food – was already looking shaky. It
