Daniel Kibuuka's blog Khalid Bomba, agriculture expert, takes a minute to discuss the importance of agriculture to the economy of Ethiopia and the need to get young people more actively involved. Wait Just a Minute with Agriculture Expert Khalid Bomb ...
Michele Breeze's blog dd-mali-870x480.jpg Mali’s mass political protests against President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita escalated over the last few weeks, prompting the government to clash with protestors and dissolve the constitutional court. This week on ...
Julia Whiting's blog This year has been rocked by unprecedented global turmoil. As disruptive as 2020 has been, the havoc raised by COVID-19 is a sneak peek at what’s coming as climate change distorts food systems across the world. The culmination of ...
Julia Whiting's blog The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Genomics to Improve Poultry (GIP-IL) is a multidisciplinary team of scientists working diligently to develop a genetic platform for selective breeding of African indigenous chickens with imp ...
Julia Whiting's blog The Nobel Prize Committee created a neat historical arc last week when it awarded the Peace Prize to the United Nations’ World Food Program for combating hunger and malnutrition in this time of Covid and conflict. Fifty years ea ...
Julia Whiting's blog For the last 100 years, food has been used as both a weapon of war and in some cases the driving force behind it. Hunger, in particular, has been at the heart of many of the revolutions of the past. Just over a decade ago the Ara ...
The future of food is increasingly being shaped by China’s appetite. According to the USDA, China surpassed the United States as the world’s largest meat consumer in 1992-- and they now double the consumption of any other country. With widespread soil pol ...
Will the economic revolution in China be further privatized? Last November the Chinese Communist Party embraced a series of market-oriented reforms that will allow private service providers to become China’s chief engine of economic and job growth. These ...
The stakes are high for China and its president, according to Minxin Pei. In recent months, President Xi Jinping has embarked on an extensive anti-corruption campaign, promising to sanitize China’s network of embedded factions and interest groups. But as ...
Anonymous's blog In late October, The Chicago Council and partners gathered some of the world's leading experts on international trade to discuss what would come next in economic integration. Below, one of these experts, Uri Dadush, senior assoc ...
