Julia Whiting's blog Global Food for Thought will be taking a break for the next two weeks. We’ll be back with the latest buzz on food, agriculture, and global development on Friday, October 2. Until then, please share any suggestions you may have ...
Julia Whiting's blog When COVID-19 hit her home country of Kenya, Rachel Olukhanda Lutomia was working as a salesperson for a clothing business. As restrictions and social distancing guidelines stiffened, Lutomia knew her sales job was not going to p ...
Julia Whiting's blog Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of columns on global food security from the international development nonprofit TechnoServe. With the number of people facing life-threatening hunger in the world expected to doub ...
Julia Whiting's blog This week we're serving up an amuse-bouche mini-edition of Global Food for Thought. If you're missing our usual version, have no fear--we'll be back next week with a full serving of the week's top stories in f ...
Julia Whiting's blog If you would like to have the Global Food for Thought news brief delivered to your inbox, please sign up here. TOP STORY Women Disproportionately Affected by COVID-19 Hunger COVID-19 may leave an additional 130 million peopl ...
Julia Whiting's blog If you would like to have the Global Food for Thought news brief delivered to your inbox, please sign up here. TOP STORY Drought solutions underground? Precipitation variability and drought are increasing due to climate chang ...
Julia Whiting's blog If you would like to have the Global Food for Thought news brief delivered to your inbox, please sign up here. TOP STORY Welcoming Peggy Tsai Yih to the Chicago Council! The Chicago Council on Global Affairs is happy to welc ...
Julia Whiting's blog Demand for food is expected to grow 60 percent by 2050. According to the chief economist at the World Food Program, as many as 135 million people worldwide are already facing severe food shortages, but COVID-19 is forecasted to d ...
Julia Whiting's blog If you would like to have the Global Food for Thought news brief delivered to your inbox, please sign up here. TOP STORY Four Famines UN food agencies are warning that the risk of famine is on the rise in four countries – Burk ...
Anonymous's blog President Obama and Pope Francis discussed US immigration reform this morning at the Vatican during a nearly hour long conversation that touched on numerous social and economic issues. The Pope is compassionate for the plight of migr ...
