Dr. Robert Paarlberg, the Betty Freyhof Johnson Professor in the Department of Political Science at Wellesley College, and author of the book Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know, delivered a Heuermann Lecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Watch his lecture here.
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Blogroll
1,000 Days Blog, 1,000 Days
Africa Can End Poverty, World Bank
Agrilinks Blog
Bread Blog, Bread for the World
Can We Feed the World Blog, Agriculture for Impact
Concern Blogs, Concern Worldwide
Institute Insights, Bread for the World Institute
End Poverty in South Asia, World Bank
Global Development Blog, Center for Global Development
The Global Food Banking Network
Harvest 2050, Global Harvest Initiative
The Hunger and Undernutrition Blog, Humanitas Global Development
International Food Policy Research Institute News, IFPRI
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center Blog, CIMMYT
ONE Blog, ONE Campaign
One Acre Fund Blog, One Acre Fund
Overseas Development Institute Blog, Overseas Development Institute
Oxfam America Blog, Oxfam America
Preventing Postharvest Loss, ADM Institute
Sense & Sustainability Blog, Sense & Sustainability
WFP USA Blog, World Food Program USA
Archive
Big Ideas and Emerging Innovations
Highlighting approaches, technologies, and ideas that have the potential to radically advance global food security.
Crossing Party Lines in the Great Food Debate
Alesha Black, Director of the Council's Global Food and Agriculture Program, on divisive discourse surrounding debates about food technologies.
Guest Commentary – Cooking up Solutions to Forest Sustainability
Ahead of the Kooben Gastronomy Festival, Ginya Truitt Nakata of The Nature Conservancy offers lessons in sustainability gleaned from traditional Yucatecan farming and cooking.
Big Ideas and Emerging Innovations
Highlighting approaches, technologies, and ideas that have the potential to radically advance global food security.
Big Ideas and Emerging Innovations
Highlighting approaches, technologies, and ideas that have the potential to radically advance global food security.
Council on Global Affairs Featured in the 2016 Good Food Org Guide
The Council on Global Affairs is among the distinguished organizations highlighted in the Good Food Org Guide for the third year in a row.
Big Ideas and Emerging Innovations
Highlighting approaches, technologies, and ideas that have the potential to radically advance global food security.
Guest Commentary – Biofortified Food: One Step Closer to a World Free of Hunger and Malnutrition
In the latest from the Agri-Pulse and Council column series, 2016 World Food Prize Laureate Howarth Bouis discusses how biofortification is a transformative tool in the fight against malnutrition.
Big Ideas and Emerging Innovations
Highlighting approaches, technologies, and ideas that have the potential to radically advance global food security.
Food Waste, Water Waste, Land Waste
In the latest installment of our Feeding 2050 series, Marcus Glassman discusses the waste that permeates food supply chains around the world.
Guest Commentary – Planting the Seeds of a 21st Century Treaty
Cary Fowler of Stanford and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault discusses the importance of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources to global food security.
Guest Commentary – Infusing Product Production with Transparency, Accountability
WWF's Jason Clay on the need for greater traceability and transparency in the global commodity trading system.
Big Ideas and Emerging Innovations
Highlighting approaches, technologies, and ideas that have the potential to radically advance global food security.
Guest Commentary – Ratification of the International Treaty for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
Stephen Smith of Iowa State University on the recently ratified Plant Genetics Treaty.
Food Safety: The Universal Issue
In the latest post in our Feeding 2050 series, Marcus Glassman discusses the threat of foodborne illness in a globalized world.