Publications

Guest Commentary – Supply and Demand for Something Different: How Open Data Can Help End Hunger

Reid Porter and David Duffeck of InterAction on the value of open data for agriculture and food security. 

Guest Commentary – Precision Agriculture: Potential and Limits

David Cleary of The Nature Conservancy on getting precision agriculture technologies to the places that need them most. 

Guest Commentary – Data to Amplify Agricultural Development

Rikin Gandhi, CEO of Digital Green and speaker at the Global Food Security Symposium 2017, on how data can improve outcomes for smallholder farmers around the world. 

Guest Commentary – Growing Markets by Focusing on Borders

The latest post in the Agri-Pulse and Council column series discusses how streamlined border procedures around the world benefit US agriculture. 

Deep Dish: The Immigrant Consumer-Producer

Populations across Midwest metros are either shrinking or experiencing slowing growth rates, especially in prime working-age adults. But influxes of immigrants are helping offset those declines. Immigration expert Sara McElmurry and expert demographer Rob Paral break down a new report from the Council about these changing demographics in and discuss how to harness this growth in a politically sensitive time.

External Commentary

Latin America's Murder Epidemic

A Food-Secure Future: Capitalizing on Technological Innovation

The last post in our Food-Secure Future series discusses how mobile phones and satellites are transforming agriculture in low- and middle-income countries. 

Guest Commentary – Food Crisis and Famine: A Compelling Call to Create Strategic Food Reserve Systems

Samrat Singh of Imperial College London comments on the current food crises in South Sudan, Nigeria, Somalia, and Yemen. 

Guest Commentary – Confronting our Biggest Challenges: Innovation and Collaboration Will Drive Food Security

Krysta Harden of DuPont on the importance of public-private partnerships in assuring global food security.