Isabel DoCampo's blog Roger Thurow's assertions regarding the plight of smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are all the more relevant in the face of a looming El Niño. This year, a fierce El Niño is expected to bring heavy rain to some reg ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog Could A Mushroom Save The Honeybee? Honeybees need a healthy diet of pollen, nectar, and water. But mycologist Steve Sheppard’s bees are getting a healthy dose of mushroom juice. He says he noticed a relationship between honeybe ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog 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 U.S. agriculture and food sector can maintain its competitive edge and ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog By Paul Weisenfeld, Executive Vice President, RTI International When Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, honored this week as the winner of the World Food Prize, founded BRAC in 1972, the terms “Millennium Development Goals,” “Sustainable Dev ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog Dietary Diversity and Biofortification: Closer Than You Think Some 2 billion people suffer from hidden hunger caused by infections and diets lacking in essential micronutrients such as vitamin A, iron, and zinc. This is particul ...
goodfoodorg_600x375.jpg Isabel DoCampo's blog On October 19, 2015, Food Tank and the James Beard Foundation released the second annual Good Food Org Guide at the James Beard Food Conference. The Chicago Council on Global Affairs is among the distingu ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog By Frank Rijsberman, Consortium CEO and Wayne Powell, Consortium Chief Science Officer, CGIAR Last month world leaders committed to a new Sustainable Development Agenda with 17 goals and 169 targets to be achieved by 2030. 69 ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog To Feed Humankind, We Need the Farms of the Future Today The world population is expected to grow to 9.6 billion by 2050, and if we want to avoid mass malnutrition, we’re going to have to up our food production by 70% by 2050. T ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog By Isabel DoCampo, Research Assistant, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs Negotiators from 12 nations have finalized the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a landmark trade agreement marked by five years of intense negotiation ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog By Marilyn Shapley, InterAction The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and InterAction, in collaboration with the House Hunger Caucus and the Senate Hunger Caucus, hosted the fourth event in an international food and nutrition ...
