Kim Heys's blog Rwanda Farmer Test May Prove Value of Climate Forecasts An experiment in Rwanda is testing whether farming communities are more likely to adapt their agricultural practices to cope with climate change if the government provides timely ...
Louise Iverson's blog By Shiro Wachira, AB Candidate at the University of Chicago and Intern with the Chicago Council’s Global Agricultural Development Initiative Smallholder farmers across the world are threatened by uncertainty: often, there are s ...
Louise Iverson's blog nextgen_565x320.jpg The Chicago Council on Global Affairs is now accepting applications from students to participate in the Global Food Security Symposium 2015 Next Generation Delegation. Convened annually by The Chicago Counc ...
Kim Heys's blog Kenyan Farmers Profit from the Sun to Water Crops For subsistence farmers in rain-scarce Kenya, drip irrigation can mean the difference between hand-to-mouth survival and being able to grow an agricultural business. The company SunCul ...
Kim Heys's blog "From eco-friendly farming techniques to the history of food activism"– The Guardian 's new list of recommended international development reads includes Senior Fellow Roger Thurow's Enough. From The Guardian: " ...
climatechangereport_605x400.jpg Kim Heys's blog On November 17, 2014, the Obama Administration launched the new US Climate Resilience Toolkit. The Toolkit is a “website that provides centralized, authoritative, easy-to-use information, tools, and bes ...
Kim Heys's blog The Floating Gardens of Bangladesh A Bangladeshi nonprofit organization is training farmers to tend an unusual source of food and income: a floating farm with a duck coop, fish enclosures, and vegetable garden moored by rope to the ri ...
Kim Heys's blog thanksgiving_600x375.jpg As the Thanksgiving holiday approaches, food and agriculture are at the forefront of people’s minds. Below are some of this week’s best articles on Thanksgiving, agriculture, and food security: Giving Thanks f ...
Anonymous's blog hydropnoics_600x375.jpg Aquaponics Startups Offer Local, Organic Produce to Urban Populations Backyard hobbyists, university researchers, nonprofits, restaurants and even inmates at a federal prison in Indiana are growing food using ...
Kim Heys's blog kenya_milk_600x375.jpg Kenyan Dairy Farmers Aim to Raise Yields and Process More Milk Dairy, like much of Kenya’s agro-processing industry, is largely underdeveloped. Although the country produces more milk than any other in Africa, e ...
