Ann Tutwiler, director general of Bioversity International, advocates for the "Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forestry" sector as an opportunity to reduce carbon emissions.
In the latest piece from the Agri-Pulse and Council on Global Affairs column series, Dr. Carolyn Woo of Catholic Relief Services remarks on the interventions that are supporting Ethiopia through a devastating drought.
According to Jason Clay of the World Wildlife Fund, humanity’s future hinges in large part on our ability to feed a growing and increasingly urban and wealthy population amid variable and extreme weather conditions.
In an op-ed for The Hill, Doug Bereuter and Dan Glickman, cochairs of the Council's global agricultural development initiative, explain why failure to reach a climate change agreement at COP21 means failure for farmers, in the US and worldwide.
Douglas Bereuter, cochair of the Council’s Global Agricultural Development Initiative and president emeritus of The Asia Foundation, delivered the keynote speech at USAID’s Farmer-to-Farmer 30th Anniversary Learning event.
While Democrats and Republicans are at opposite ends of the spectrum in prioritizing climate change, Chicago Council Surveys going back to 2002 have shown longstanding public support for an international treaty to address the problem.
As the world turns its attention to climate change in the midst of COP21, it is important to keep global food security in mind as an opportunity to mitigate the effects of a warming planet as well as a wide variety of instabilities.
