Isabel DoCampo's blog By Macani Toungara, Director, Program Development, TechnoServe The first gasoline-powered tractor rolled down a Midwestern wheat field in 1892. Since then, this technology has evolved and spread around the world—but it has spr ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog Real-Time Supply Chain Data, via Mobile, to Support Rapid Urbanization By Justin P. Oberman, Co-Founder and CEO, Till Mobile Growers, entrepreneurs, NGOs, investors, and governments are stepping up to meet the challenge of fee ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog This piece originally appeared on Agri-Pulse. Editor's note: 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 ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog Chicken farmer Craig Watts holds a handful of Perdue antibiotic feed at C&A Farms in Fairmont, North Carolina June 10, 2014. REUTERS/Randall Hill Taking Cues from Human Nutrition to Reduce Antibiotic Use in Livestock The I ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog By David Auerbach, Co-Founder, Sanergy When Astronaut Mark Watney found himself stranded on Mars, he had to figure out a way to grow food in Martian soil. A botanist by training, he immediately knew the best way to make a nutr ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog By Homi Kharas, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, and John W. McArthur, Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution In September 2015, all 193 member states of the United Nations agreed to end hunger in ...
Kim Heys's blog infographic_off-farm_employment2_1500x840.jpg On March 2, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs launched a new campaign, “Growing Food for Growing Cities,” to explore the challenges posed to global food security by urbanization and th ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog By David Hong, Global Senior Policy Analyst, One Acre Fund While the growth of cities has been well documented, it might come as a surprise to find out that Africa’s rural population will grow nearly 50 percent between 2015 an ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog By Joe Stone, Animal Nutrition, Cargill In an increasingly urbanized world, we need to nourish people today and build the sustainable systems necessary to provide for future generations. At Cargill, we have been engaged in ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog By Rex Raimond, Senior Mediator and Program Director, Meri dian Institute Urbanization and Supply Chain Changes Agriculture and food systems in Asia and Africa are changing rapidly in positive and exciting ways. Leaders in Asia ...
