Anonymous's blog This post by senior fellow Roger Thurow originally appeared on the Outrage and Inspire blog. As part of the Feeding Development campaign, Chicago Council Senior Fellow Roger Thurow sat down with Devex’s Adva Saldinger to discuss so ...
Anonymous's blog President Obama has convened leaders from the food, agriculture, and technology industries to discuss ways these companies are leveraging open government data, related information tools, and other innovations as the Administration un ...
Anonymous's blog (REUTERS/Antony Njuguna) How a Kenyan TV Series is Helping Farmers Improve Productivity, Increase Income Shamba Shape Up is a Kenyan television series helping small-scale farmers give their farms a makeover. It is the first televisio ...
Anonymous's blog At the Global Food Security Symposium 2014, The Chicago Council hosted this year’s Next Generation Delegation, composed of 14 students from land-grant and research universities who plan to enter the agriculture and food sector upon ...
Anonymous's blog On Monday, July 21, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ Global Agricultural Development Initiative held a Twitter roundup on climate change and food security, as part of Devex’s Feeding Development campaign (#FeedingDev). We asked ...
Anonymous's blog Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced the creation of the Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research (FFAR) and the 15 members who will sit on the FFAR board of directors. Three members of The Chicago Council’s Global Ag ...
Anonymous's blog By Tim Searchinger and Craig Hanson This post was originally published on the World Resources Institute’s Insights blog. The world is on a path to need almost 70 percent more crops in 2050 than those it produced in 2006. To close tha ...
Anonymous's blog (People crowd a wholesale market in Mumbai. REUTERS/Prashanth Vishwanathan) How Existing Cropland Could Feed Billions More Feeding a growing human population without increasing stresses on strained land and water resources may seem l ...
Anonymous's blog Dan Glickman, The Chicago Council of Global Affairs’ Global Agricultural Development Initiative cochair and former US Secretary of Agriculture, recently traveled with the global poverty-fighting organization CARE on a Learning Tour t ...
Anonymous's blog REUTERS/Francisco Bonilla Meet the Gleaners—Fighting Hunger and Climate Change at the Same Time If global food waste were a country, it would be the third largest greenhouse gas polluter in the world, behind only China and the US. A ...
