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However, its not just large pieces of plastic that are causing havoc with the marine environment. Household and cosmetic products are laced with microplastics designed to scrub and clean, and which are too small to be caught by water filtration systems. The microplastics enter water every time someone brushes their teeth or scrubs their face with products containing them.

Beyond legislation, consumers can try to buy products with a transparent, ethical provenance. But Governale at the DIA believes the long-term solution is better governance. In deprived areas where the state doesn’t guarantee basic rights or services — from hospital beds, to transport for farm workers — people are more likely to turn to Mob bosses than to institutions for loans or protection, he says. “At the end, the population become almost supportive of those that suffocate them . . . 

While many products so far are packaged for retail, expect to see more cassava on foodservice menus as well in 2019, likely in baked goods or tortillas made with cassava flour.

The brigadeiro, a fudge truffle, is a classic in Brazil and frequently served at parties. The story goes that the treat gets its name from Brig. Gen. Eduardo Gomes, a candidate in the 1945 presidential election. The general didn’t win the presidency, but his legacy lives on in the chocolaty confection. To create your own, make fudge balls by combining sweetened cocoa powder, condensed milk and butter, then top with sugar or sprinkles. Or take inspiration from the hipster versions you can find from New York to Brazil that include pistachios, coconut or matcha.

German engineering company Robert Bosch is also working on similar precision spraying kits, as are other startups such as Denmark’s Agrointelli

Does Fire have anything to offer people on lower incomes? Most of the practitioners in the UK who I speak to are sceptical. It is possible to see the whole movement as malign (Whiter wonders whether I am preparing a “hatchet job”), with middle-class people using rising property prices and a buoyant stock market to become a new leisured aristocracy.

On a single day in the summer of 2016, the owner of the briefcase handed over $150,000 to one of the group’s accountants to pay for the transport of wheat from one town to another, according to one financial report.

Siphoning off farm subsidies does not carry the same dubious “glamour” as the racketeering or drug running usually associated with the Mafia. But it has become a highly lucrative income stream for Italy’s organised-crime syndicates. Their forays into farming do not end there: in recent years, they have infiltrated the entire food chain, according to a Rome-based think-tank, the Observatory of Crime in Agriculture and the Food Chain.

With rich consumer data and pioneering ad tools, it's no surprise that social media platforms are an effective personalization advertising channel. 

Pictured here are Timeless Natural Food's yellow lentils; on the left are lentils with their skins removed, and are packaged as Harvest Gold. On the right are lentils with skin left on. (Photo: TRIBUNE PHOTO/RION SANDERS)

Trade Kings, a Zambian-owned company founded in 1995, manufactured Boom Detergent Paste and imported foreign candy. But when its trade partnership fell through, the company decided to produce its own candy in Zambia. Now, its Amazon Pops are a signature product, and the company manufactures tons of candy a year. The pops are also popular in Tanzania and South Africa, where Trade Kings claims that it opened the largest candy-manufacturing line in the Southern Hemisphere in 2010. The treats come in flavors like black cherry, strawberry and pink lemonade.

The first consignment nabbed in Eastleigh was found with mercury and copper traces, according to findings from the Government Chemist.