I would actually love to see Saudi Arabia take the lead on food engineering. They might lack fresh water, but they have immense amounts of land and sun to play with.

The only alternative I can see is a mass reforestation project.

Friendly reminder that abortion is a legal and widely available in China and that the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic was one of the first countries to legalize abortion for any reason (and indeed, with the exception of the period surrounded WW2, abortion was both legal and common in the USSR). Abortion services are also widely available in Vietnam and Cuba.

Abortion policy in much of the EU is ancient and reflects a view that women are somehow less human than men. Something like half of the EU limits it to a 12 week term limit and it is still illegal (if not enforced) in Germany.