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Growing Food for Growing Cities

RESEARCH
Report by Thomas Reardon

Feeding cities presents a major opportunity to improve the plight of millions of small-scale farmers and rural residents trapped in subsistence agriculture and joblessness.

A crowded food market in an Indian city, Food and Agriculture

When Hunger Strikes: How Food Security Abroad Matters for National Security at Home

RESEARCH
Policy Brief by Cullen S. Hendrix

Efforts geared toward smallholder farmers have become more efficient and effective over the past several decades in helping to bringing millions out of poverty, enhancing food and nutrition security, and growing economies around the globe.

A shop inside Mercado de La Boqueria, in Barcelona with produce stands Food and Agriculture

Small Farmers, Big Retailers: Are New Sourcing Strategies a Path to Inclusion?

RESEARCH
Report by Hope C. Michelson

As retail-led agricultural marketing systems in emerging economies continue to develop, governments, NGOs, and companies can benefit from each other's experiences and examples to date.

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Global Food Security by the Numbers

RESEARCH
Report by Charles E. Hanrahan

Investments in global food security alleviate poverty, spur economic growth, promote social stability, and enhance the resilience of communities in low-income regions of the world.

 Women in Niger water their vegetable garden. Food and Agriculture

Healthy Food for a Healthy World

RESEARCH
Report by Coauthors

This report calls on the United States to use the power of the agriculture and food sector to reduce the reality and risks of malnutrition globally.

Women with crops in boats. Food and Agriculture

Grow Markets, Fight Hunger: A Food Security Framework for US-Africa Trade Relations

RESEARCH
Policy Brief by Andrea Durkin

Andrea Durkin provides recommendations from a Council report aiming at addressing food security in Africa and US-Africa trade relations.

An aerial view of produce stands at a street market Food and Agriculture

Employing Agriculture: How the Midwest Farm and Food Sector Relies on Immigrant Labor

RESEARCH
Policy Brief by Stephanie Mercier

Foreign-born workers are on the land, in laboratories, and everywhere in between. Immigration reform will strengthen Midwest agriculture.

A barn in a field of grass, with a sun setting in the background
Timothy Eberly
Migration

Advancing Global Food Security in the Face of a Changing Climate

RESEARCH
Report by Gerald C. Nelson

This report urges the US government to take action to curb the risks climate change poses to global food security.

Person working in a rice field. Food and Agriculture

Advancing Global Food Security: The Power of Science, Trade, and Business

RESEARCH
Report by Coauthors

This report urges the US government focus its global food security strategy on science, increasing trade flows for agriculture and food, and incentivizing greater business activity in low-income countries.

A field being tilled with a tractor.
Luke Thornton
Food and Agriculture

Agricultural Innovation: The United States in a Changing Global Reality

RESEARCH
Report by Coauthors

This report examines implications of increasingly influential roles of global business, agricultural research, and the limited national research capacity of developing countries.

A man stands in a field of grazing cattle on a cell phone. Food and Agriculture