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A group of African countries called on Wednesday for better controls on the rush for critical minerals needed for the green transition, underscoring how the balance of power in resource extraction is shifting in the Global South’s favor.

A farmers’ protest in Brussels, Belgium.

In recent weeks and months, farmers across Europe have taken to the streets to protest against rising production costs and falling wholesale prices. Disruptive farmer protests in Europe are nothing new, but these demonstrations are unprecedented in both scale and nature, provoked by a perfect storm of seismic global events.

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