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As part of our Food-Secure Future series, John Mandyck of United Technologies discusses how food waste innovation can reduce the impacts of climate change and feed a growing population.
The latest post in our Food-Secure Future series discusses private sector investments that are transforming global agriculture.
Highlighting approaches, technologies, and ideas that have the potential to radically advance global food security.
YPARD on proven techniques to help engage youth in the agricultural sector.
Journalist Lisa Palmer on the was in which farmers are innovating in the face of climate change.
T.S. Jayne and Felix Kwame Yeboah of Michigan State University discuss strategies to involve youth in the agricultural sector in sub-Saharan Africa.
Paul Weisenfeld of RTI International on the need for better data on youth to engage them in the agricultural system.
The latest post in our Food-Secure Future series covers the state of global youth populations and the ways in which we can better engage them in the agricultural sector.
Empowered girls and women are transformative for the nations and societies they reside in, and key to ending global hunger and malnutrition. But how can we move the needle on girls’ and women’s empowerment? A new blog series, She Succeeds, We Succeed, explores.
Robert Hunter and Yvonne Harz-Pitre, Co-Chairs of Farming First, on getting youth around the world involved in the agricultural sector.
Highlighting approaches, technologies, and ideas that have the potential to radically advance global food security.
Craig Burnett, formerly of Concern Worldwide, on the findings of this year's Global Hunger Index.
Alesha Black, director of the Council's Global Food and Agriculture Program, on progress in combating global malnutrition.
Ginya Truitt Nakata of the Nature Conservancy on the need to align farming practices with environmental needs.
The latest post in our Food-Secure Future series dives in to the importance of innovation in the face of threats to the food system.
