Publications

Sustainable Intensification: Making Science the Solution for African Agriculture

As the expiration date of the Millennium Development Goals draws closer, our promise to eradicate extreme hunger and poverty remains largely unfulfilled.

Commentary- The Nexus between Science, Business & Collaboration

In February of 2013, I visited the Philippines to conduct an in-depth look at how that nation’s government and civil society organizations are implementing new approaches to improve food and nutrition security.

External Commentary

Federal Reserves Actions and US Economy

Commentary- Freezing the Footprint of Food

By the year 2050, our planet will be home to another two billion people. How and where we will we feed everyone has become one of the most pressing conservation issues of the 21st century.

Commentary- InterAction’s Food Security Pledge: $1 Billion of Potential Leverage

Last fall InterAction pledged that its member NGOs would spend more than $1 billion in private resources on food security, agriculture and nutrition work over the next three years.

A Global Revolt Against Globalization

Recent travels have taken me to two places that would seem to have almost nothing in common – southeastern Iowa and England.

Commentary- Lesson from a Famine: Markets Matter

Ten years after the Ethiopian famine of 2003, when international food aid rushed in to feed 14 million people, another World Food Program (WFP) tent has been erected on an open field.  But this isn’t a scene of food distribution.  It is a scene of food purchase.

Commentary- Prioritizing Reduction of Food Losses and Waste for Food Security

Food security is one of the most pressing challenges in the world today.  The challenge is particularly important as the world population is projected to reach over 9 billion people resulting in increased food demand by the year 2050.

Roger Thurow- Outrage and Inspire- A Mother's Day Parable From Uganda

A Mother's Day parable from Uganda

A mother knows. “This child is brilliant,” Harriet Okaka says about her one-year-old son, Abraham.  She isn’t bragging, just observing.  “I can tell, just by looking at him,” she says, “the way he plays, the way he is.”