#food-crisis

#food-crisis

Bayer is supplementing human security patrols around its 8,000 acre Hawaiian corn farm with robotic security dogs, supplied by the tech firm Asylon. The Asylon dogs are meant to guard the company's precious maize from vandals, wildfires, wild fauna, and other hazards around the clock.

If we stay here even a few more days, our children might die of hunger. They don't understand what this crisis is; we just see them crying for food, Prasad says.

"It's expensive," Kaori Wataya, a 45-year-old mother of three who cooks rice for two meals a day, said outside a supermarket in western Tokyo. "But what else can we do? ... I'm trying my best to buy."