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Boosting Nutrition and Sustainability through Superfoods in Local Food Systems 

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Global Food for Thought by Juan Lucas Restrepo

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

A close-up view of quinoa, a superfood
Pierre Bamin
Food and Agriculture

Biocontrol of the Fall Armyworm: Long-term Resilience for Small-scale Farmers

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Global Food for Thought by Sara Hendery

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

Landscape in Akaki Kality, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Food and Agriculture

I am Gita

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Global Food for Thought by Roger Thurow

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

Children in Tanzania stand below a line showing the median height for 9-year-olds globally
Gates Foundation
Food and Agriculture

Known Origins - What Traceability is and Why it Matters for Your Plate

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Global Food for Thought by Mark Kaplan

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.

A farmer attends a rice field in Indonesia
Simon Fangers
Food and Agriculture

The Kinship of Farmers: We're All in This Together

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Global Food for Thought by Roger Thurow

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

Two tractors harvesting a field
Johny Goerend
Food and Agriculture

Institutional Change and an Intersectional Approach to Supporting Women in Science

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Global Food for Thought by Katelyn Jones

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

A female farmer plants transplants at a farm in Pennsylvania
Zoe Schaeffer
Women and Girls

Expressing Appreciation and Announcing a Transition

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Global Food for Thought by Alesha Miller

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

The conference center at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Food and Agriculture

Hungry for Equality: Examining the Gender Gap in Food Security

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Global Food for Thought by Julia Whiting

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.

A woman and her daughter arrange branches of khat into small bundles in Somalia.
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Food and Agriculture

Jess Fanzo on the Rise in Obesity

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Wait Just a Minute

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.

Screenshot of Jess Fanzo speaking on-screen Global Health

Agricultural Innovation Can Feed the Planet, But It Needs Policy Support

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Global Food for Thought by Julia Whiting

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.

Research technicians working in a  plant breeding centre in Canada
Reuters
Food and Agriculture