Louise Iverson's blog A new report for the Global Food Security programme, prepared by an independent expert taskforce from the United Kingdom and the United States, finds that extreme weather events are increasing worldwide and are likely to disrupt ...
Marcus Glassman's blog Next Generation Delegation 2015 Commentary Series By Ronald Sullivan, BS candidate in international agribusiness at Kansas State University and 2015 Next Generation Delegate. In a world where about 1 billion people live on u ...
Louise Iverson's blog How to Feed the World, with a Little Kelp from Our Friends (the Oceans) There is a farm that needs no inputs — no fertilizer, no pesticides, no water. Oh, and it doesn’t use any land either. This farm increases wildlife habitat ...
Marcus Glassman's blog Science & Our Food Commentary Series By Marcus Glassman, Research Associate, Global Agriculture & Food, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs In the United States, the safety of GE crops is regulated at the federal ...
Marcus Glassman's blog Next Generation Delegation 2015 Commentary Series By Kate Collins, 2015 Next Generation Delegate and MPA-MBA dual degree candidate at Harvard Kennedy School and MIT Sloan School. In the US, foodies resist the processed and ...
Louise Iverson's blog When They’re Not Busy Weaving Leaves, These Ants Make Great Insecticides According to new research, ants can control pests as efficiently, and much more cheaply, than pesticides. Farmers spend about $4 billion on pesticides annu ...
Louise Iverson's blog usaid_feedthefuture.jpg This post 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 ...
Louise Iverson's blog Open-Access Database Will Help Water-Scarce Countries Get More Crop per Drop A new open-access data portal to be developed by FAO will use satellite imagery to help water-scarce countries in the Near East and North Africa better ...
Louise Iverson's blog 4ways_improve_globalfoodsecurity.jpg The Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ new report, Global Food Security by the Numbers, lays out what is known about current US investments in global food security and makes recommendations f ...
Louise Iverson's blog Move Over Test-Tube Burger, There’s a Lab-Grown Chicken Breast in the Works Amit Gefen, a bioengineer and professor at Tel Aviv University, is midway through an experiment that could end in a recipe for the world’s first lab-gro ...
