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Food Security at the Heart of Soy Growth Plan

 Wade Cowan, soybean producer and President of the American Soybean Association, outlines the important role of soy production for global food security in the latest Agri-Pulse and Chicago Council monthly column.


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Healthy Food for a Healthy World: Accelerating Nutrition

Beginning this week, The Chicago Council will highlight the recommendations from the new report, Healthy Food for a Healthy World: Leveraging Agriculture and Food to Improve Global Nutrition, in a weekly blog series. 



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Big Ideas and Emerging Innovations

Highlighting approaches, technologies, and ideas that have the potential to radically advance sustainable and nutritious food security globally.

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| By Richard C. Longworth

The Future of Farming

I was talking recently with a farmer who farms a big spread in northern Illinois. There’s more to this these days, he said, than just going out and plowing the back 40. Where and how he plows depends largely on the data he gets daily from three satellites orbiting a thousand miles above his farm.