Each year donors spend billions of dollars on agricultural research initiatives in developing countries in the fight to end hunger. Yet do these well-meaning efforts have the unintended consequence of imposing solutions from the top down?
There appears to be a dawning realization that the agriculture sector may be part of the solution to climate change, rather than a problem to be solved, by drawing down and storing carbon in farmland.
Humans all need water for roughly the same things and in roughly the same amounts. And yet, water insecurity has profoundly disproportionate effects on women.
This blog post from our "Field Notes" series explains smallholder farmers in the drylands, and why they are among the most affected in a warming world.
In this episode of Wait Just a Minute, journalist and activist Mona Eltahawy takes a minute to examine feminism, ambition, the state of women’s rights in the Middle East.
The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty has mostly succeeded in keeping more countries out of the nuclear club. But as U.S. alliances fray, its future success is not assured.
