Global Food for Thought

Erin Sweeney provides guest commentary on food, agriculture, and forestry in Southeast Asia.

Farmers’ decisions to change the way they have farmed for years and start using new conserving agricultural practices such as conservation tillage, cover cropping, or buffer strips will depend in large part on how much it will cost.

Our Field Notes series explores how food systems innovation and agricultural research and development can empower farmers and feed the world.

The fall armyworm is destroying crops throughout Asia and Africa, intensifying the many burdens small-scale farmers are met with every day.

We all share in the cost of lower education, reduced labor productivity, and escalating health care costs.

Traceability—the ability to identify and trace the history, distribution, location and application of products, parts and materials—ensures the reliability of sustainability claims in the areas of human rights, labor, the environment, and anti-corruption.

In this series, Agri-Pulse and the Council have partnered to explore how the US agriculture and food sector can advance food security.

Ensuring women's access to information, training, and technology can ensure land and resources alike are used more sustainably.

After nearly four years at the Council, Alesha Miller, Center on Global Food and Agriculture managing director, steps down.

Women and girls make up 60 percent of the world's chronically hungry population and are 10 percent more likely than men to experience food insecurity.