monitoring systems that promise efficiency but raise cybersecurity stakes; in food and agriculture, fertilizer availability and price volatility remain acute concerns after supply shocks from conflict, sanctions, and logistical bottlenecks, while agritech startups promote precision agriculture, gene editing, and robotics to improve yields amid reso

as the U.S., EU, and Asian economies scramble to secure critical nodes; climate remains a throughline with record heatwaves, flooding in Europe and Asia, and devastating wildfires in North America spotlighting adaptation gaps, while insurers retreat from high-risk zones and public authorities face pressure to underwrite resilience investments; food

into Southeast Asia and Africa with mixed financial returns, while grappling with a sluggish property sector, local government debt, and youth joblessness, and Washington calibrates alliances from Tokyo to New Delhi with the twin goals of supply chain security and military deterrence; Taiwan remains a flashpoint with increased air and naval maneuve

Global attention continues to fragment across overlapping crises and evolving developments that touch nearly every continent, with wars, elections, climate shocks, trade disputes, and technological rivalries all feeding into one another in ways that shape the daily headlines as well as long-term forecasts; in Europe the war in Ukraine has settled i