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The Science and Limitations of Farm-Based Carbon Offsets

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Global Food for Thought by Nina Domingo

Agriculture has great potential for carbon offsets, but implementation will be complicated.

Tractors in a yellow field seen from the sky.
Johny Goerend
Food and Agriculture

US Government Nutrition Research: Six Years Later

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Global Food for Thought by Samanta Dunford

Were the recommendations in the Center on Global Food and Agriculture's 2015 nutrition report successful? The Council examines this question in the second part of our 2021 series to find out.

Research technicians working on the development of clubroot-resistant canola bag plants.
Reuters
Food and Agriculture

Policies to Support Nutrition-Sensitive Food Systems

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Global Food for Thought by Julia Whiting

Were the recommendations in the Center on Global Food and Agriculture's 2015 nutrition report successful? The Council examines this question in the first part of our 2021 series to find out.

A table set with various foods on a white tablecloth before an archway and a window.
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Food and Agriculture

Time for a National Strategy on Food

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Coauthors

Ertharin Cousin and Dan Glickman write in the Hill how the US economy, public health, and hunger rates all demand a comprehensive plan on food and nutrition.

View down a grocery aisle from the front of an empty grocery cart.
Reuters
Food and Agriculture

The Food Waste and Climate Connection

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Global Food for Thought by Eden Merkle

If food waste were a country, it would be the world's third-largest greenhouse gas emitter behind China and the US.

A worker dumps pre-consumer food waste
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Climate and the Environment

Organic Mandate, Growing Solar, and Allergens

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Global Food for Thought by Julia Whiting

Check out the week's top stories in food, agriculture, and global development.

a worker walks in a Sri Lankan tea farm
Reuters/Dinuka Liyanawatte
Food and Agriculture

Agroecology, Blue Foods, and Happier Meals

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Global Food for Thought by Julia Whiting

Check out the week's top news and research in food, agriculture, and global development.

Venezuelan fisherman clean equipment from oil spill.
REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria
Food and Agriculture

Agriculture Needs a New Public Digital Architecture

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Global Food for Thought by Alesha Miller

Big data can be an asset in the fight against hunger, but it needs a public digital architecture.

A farmer uses a computer on his tractor.
Reuters
Food and Agriculture

The People's Summit, Land Rights, and Taxi Gardens

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Global Food for Thought by Julia Whiting

Check out the week's top stories in food, agriculture, and global development.

Reuters/Chalinee Thirasupa
Food and Agriculture

The High Stakes of the UN Food Systems Summit

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Global Food for Thought by Roger Thurow

Childhood malnutrition can forever change the course of someone's life.

Schoolchildren in Ethiopia.
Anne Thurow
Food and Agriculture