bigideas_kenya_600x375.jpg Louise Iverson's blog By Grace Burton and Louise Iverson On April 23, the House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously voted the amended Global Food Security Act of 2015 (H.R. 1567) out of Committee. Co-sponsored by 10 Democ ...
Louise Iverson's blog By David Hong and Beth Ann Saracco Carolyn Makhanu is a smallholder farmer in Bulondo, Kenya. Several years ago, she was growing only a few bags of maize every season—not enough to feed her family. Now she produces enough to fee ...
Louise Iverson's blog big idead 150504.jpg Wasting Less of Africa’s Harvest in Order to Prosper The fight against hunger in Africa has experienced many successes in boosting agricultural production. It’s only now that agricultural organizations and e ...
Louise Iverson's blog accelerating-nutrtion.jpg On April 16, The Chicago Council launched a new report, Healthy Food for a Healthy World: Leveraging Agriculture and Food to Improve Global Nutrition, at the Global Food Security Symposium 2015. Each we ...
Louise Iverson's blog This article originally appeared on Agri-Pulse Agri-Pulse and The Chicago Council on Global Affairs are teaming up to host a monthly column to explore how the US agriculture and food sector can maintain its competitive edge and ...
Louise Iverson's blog This post originally appeared on the Development Horizons Blog. By Lawrence Haddad, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute The influential Chicago Council on Global Affairs has produced a new repor ...
Louise Iverson's blog In honor of Mother's Day on Sunday, May 10, we are republishing the following video and post from Senior Fellow Roger Thurow, which originally appeared on Outrage and Inspire in January 2015. In this audio slideshow, Roger ...
Louise Iverson's blog The Rural Kenyan School That Collects Water for the Community Water problems suffered by people living in the semi-arid regions of Kenya adversely affect whole areas of their lives, causing ill health, conflict and food insecuri ...
Louise Iverson's blog By Elizabeth Leake, InSTePP Communication Specialist, University of Minnesota What has a voracious appetite, is resistant to broad-spectrum pesticides and could take a big bite out of the US agricultural economy? Helicoverpa arm ...
Louise Iverson's blog privatesector_625x415.jpg On April 16, The Chicago Council launched a new report, Healthy Food for a Healthy World: Leveraging Agriculture and Food to Improve Global Nutrition, at the Global Food Security Symposium 2015. Each ...
