Publications

Commentary- We need to irrigate Africa: Why and How

Production should be in synch with demand – think “just in time”. How do you do that? You irrigate – wherever you can.

Big Pay for University President, Big Debt for Students

More than any region, the Midwest lavishes seven-figure pay packages on the presidents of its big public universities.

Commentary- Why We Still Need a Work Programme on Agriculture

Climate change has been dubbed by scientists as "the greatest challenge of our time."

Commentary- Beyond 20 Percent: Why multisectoral approaches to improving nutrition matter

Undernutrition is the single biggest contributor to child mortality, and one of the world’s most serious health and human development challenges. 

Meet the Experts – Kindra Halvorson

You’ve spent a large portion of your career building public and private partnerships for agriculture to alleviate hunger and poverty. What progress has been made in terms of this collaboration?

Commentary- Sustainable intensification: a single solution for a double challenge

Our planet faces an urgent, double challenge. First – around 827 million people in the world are still going hungry.

The Midwest: New Homeland of Inequality

Inequality, a growing social and political issue in the United States, has become particularly acute in the industrial Middle West.

Commentary- Changing the paradigm for drought management: The role of National Drought Policies

Drought is the costliest of all natural disasters and affects more people than any other weather-related event. 

Meet the Experts: John Coonrod

What makes agriculture an important global issue? And how will climate change affect food production?

Roger Thurow in The Atlantic

In this tiny village in northern Uganda, Esther Okwir heard something she could barely believe: Her child could be the country’s president one day.