FINANCIAL TIMES: How Protein Took Over the World
14 October 2026The protein boom is reshaping the food industry and our diets. The growing craze for protein is now giving cheesemakers access to a more lucrative market.
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The protein boom is reshaping the food industry and our diets. The growing craze for protein is now giving cheesemakers access to a more lucrative market.
Many African countries still import a large share of the poultry they consume. This is often seen as a sign of insufficient production capacity, but the real problem lies elsewhere.
Diverse foods derived from livestock production systems, including grazing and pastoralist systems, and from the hunting of wild animals, provide high-quality proteins, important fatty acids and various vitamins and minerals.
Years of research and field trials have demonstrated many ways to grow crops sustainably in saline conditions. But even as punishing droughts, saltwater intrusion and intensive irrigation threaten to drive.