Commentary and Analysis

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.

Jess Fanzo, editor-in-chief of "Global Food Security Journal," takes a minute to answer questions on why obesity is rising across the globe and what can be done about it.

As technology expands what is possible in our food system, inefficiencies can arise and make it difficult for policy to change as rapidly as our technology does.

Unclean water, poor sanitation, and lousy hygiene—and resulting diseases—combine with poor nutrition as the leading causes of young child mortality and stunting. 

In this post from our "Uncharted Waters" blog series, we discuss that while the water footprint of livestock is substantive, the cost of that footprint is far from straightforward.

Since the dawn of agriculture spurred the establishment of human civilizations, humans have adapted and revolutionized their food systems to overcome obstacles.