Hope Michelson is an assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Michelson earned her PhD in Applied Economics at Cornell and completed a post-doctoral fellowship with the A ...
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and InterAction, in collaboration with the House Hunger Caucus, the Senate Hunger Caucus, and the Senate Agriculture Committee, present a panel exploring the critical links between agriculture, trade, and economic grow ...
Kim Heys's blog foodtank.jpg At the Food Tank Summit in Washington, DC on February 9-10, Roger Thurow spoke at a panel discussion on “Telling the Story of Food” and the outrage and inspiration that fuels his work: Roger’s novel, The Last Hunger Seaso ...
Andrea Durkin is the founder and principal of Sparkplug, LLC, an independent consulting firm whose clients include Fortune 200 companies in the life sciences, food, and agriculture sectors, as well as major industry trade associations. She recently launch ...
Thomas Reardon is professor of agricultural, food, and resource economics at Michigan State University (MSU) since 1992 and at International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) for a decade before that since his PhD at UC Berkeley in 1984. From 2012 to ...
Charles E. Hanrahan completed his 30-year career with the Congressional Research Service in 2014 as senior specialist in agricultural policy, a statutory position established by the legislative reorganization Act of 1970. At CRS he conducted research and ...
Research suggests that investments in global food security alleviate poverty, spur economic growth, promote social stability, and enhance the resilience of communities and countries in low-income regions of the world. US investments in global food security ...
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and InterAction in collaboration with the House Hunger Caucus present a panel exploring the critical links between land rights, poverty reduction, and economic advancement. In developing countries, overall economic gro ...
Kim Heys's blog Suaahara, which means “good nutrition” in Nepali, is also the name of an innovative project taking place in the foothills of Nepal. Suaahara is one of the largest single-country nutrition programs in the developing world, and works ac ...
Kim Heys's blog In a new report on PBS NewsHour, NPR’s Allison Aubrey looks at why good food is being discarded, and what can be done to prevent it: For more on solutions that tackle food waste, read Aubrey’s recent article, To Tackle Food Waste, Big ...
