Expert commentary and analysis on global agriculture and food.
Roger Thurow delivered the keynote at the Universities Fighting World Hunger summit on March 1. Click here to watch his speech (at the 14:00 min mark).
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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
Highlighting approaches, technologies, and ideas that have the potential to radically advance global food security.
Alesha Black, Director of the Council's Global Food and Agriculture Program, on divisive discourse surrounding debates about food technologies.
Ahead of the Kooben Gastronomy Festival, Ginya Truitt Nakata of The Nature Conservancy offers lessons in sustainability gleaned from traditional Yucatecan farming and cooking.
Highlighting approaches, technologies, and ideas that have the potential to radically advance global food security.
Highlighting approaches, technologies, and ideas that have the potential to radically advance global food security.
The Council on Global Affairs is among the distinguished organizations highlighted in the Good Food Org Guide for the third year in a row.
Highlighting approaches, technologies, and ideas that have the potential to radically advance global food security.
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.
Highlighting approaches, technologies, and ideas that have the potential to radically advance global food security.
In the latest installment of our Feeding 2050 series, Marcus Glassman discusses the waste that permeates food supply chains around the world.
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.
WWF's Jason Clay on the need for greater traceability and transparency in the global commodity trading system.
Highlighting approaches, technologies, and ideas that have the potential to radically advance global food security.
Stephen Smith of Iowa State University on the recently ratified Plant Genetics Treaty.
In the latest post in our Feeding 2050 series, Marcus Glassman discusses the threat of foodborne illness in a globalized world.
