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Food Security & Sustainability

Hunger is the Deadliest Weapon of War  

Podcast
Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

The Unites States must address hunger as an essential element of military and foreign policy, former World Food Programme head Ertharin Cousin explains to host Brian Hanson.

A malnourished girl receives food aid in Yemen
REUTERS
Food Security & Sustainability

Hunger Is a Weapon of War. Food Can Help Prevent It.

In the News
Foreign Policy
Ertharin Cousin

As the ongoing conflict in Yemen shows, it’s time to fight starvation not only on humanitarian grounds but as an essential component of military and foreign policy.

Food Security & Sustainability

Will India's Farmers Rein in Modi's Power?

Podcast
Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

Sumit Ganguly and Surupa Gupta join Brian Hanson to discuss the impact of widespread protests to reform the agricultural sector.

Reuters
Food Security & Sustainability

Using Cutting-Edge Science to Protect African Farmers' Potato Crops, Incomes, and Food Security

COLUMN
Global Food for Thought by Coauthors

Guest authors Chris Kennedy and Bob Easter examine how a collaborative effort to bring a disease-resistant potato variety to market in Africa can promote global food security.

potato crop income Food Security & Sustainability

We Need Vaccines to Protect Our Food Crops, Too

COLUMN
Global Food for Thought by Diana Horvath

In the battle between pathogen and host—whether a human or food crop—it’s often a deadly race to see who wins.

Wheat rust
Kansas State University
Food Security & Sustainability

Council Congratulates the World Food Programme for Nobel Prize

Video Series
Featured Video

The World Food Programme received the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for combating hunger and contributing to peace in conflict-affected areas.

Children in Sierra Leone
Annie Spratt
Food Security & Sustainability

Farmers Facing a New Kind of Crisis: How COVID-19 Has Broken Agricultural Value Chains

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Global Food for Thought by Nupur Parikh

The pandemic's impact on agriculture will be significant and long-lasting.

a farmer farms using tools in Indonesia
Defika Hendri
Food Security & Sustainability

Roger Thurow Talks Global Food Insecurity Amid American Abundance

In the News
Food Talk by Food Tank
Roger Thurow

Roger Thurow joins the Food Talk podcast to talk about the breakdown of the US’s food chain and why global food security persists amid an abundance of food in the U.S.

Empty grocery store shelves during Coronavirus pandemic.
Wesley Tingey
Food Security & Sustainability

American Ag is Under Attack, We Aim to Protect it

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Global Food for Thought by Coauthors

The Agricultural Intelligence Measures Act, or AIM Act, would protect our agriculture system by creating an intelligence office within the Department of Agriculture.

A scientist preps radish seeds in a lab
NASA/Glenn Benson
Food Security & Sustainability

Envisioning the Future of Food in Times of Change

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Global Food for Thought by Todd Post

Todd Post from Bread for the World provides guest commentary to explain the future of food in times of change.

Children sit and eat outside in La Paz, Bolivia.
Reuters
Food Security & Sustainability