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Public-Private Partnerships in Nutrition Ventures

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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 third part of our 2021-22 series to find out.

Jagger Harvey, the director of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for the Reduction of Post-Harvest Loss, and Jisang Yu assess chilies and peanuts for mycotoxin risk in Nepal.
Kansas State Research & Extension
Food and Agriculture

Why Support Africa's Small Farmers?

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Project Syndicate
Roger Thurow

“As Africa’s farmers work to adapt to climate change, global leaders must do their part by keeping–and extending–the promises they made at COP26,” writes Roger Thurow in Project Syndicate.

Subsistence farmers work their field of maize after late rains near the capital Lilongwe, Malawi February 1, 2016.
Reuters
Food and Agriculture

Food Insecurity's Socio-Emotional Impacts on Children

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Roger Thurow speaks at the Child Youth Forum on food insecurity’s impact on the socio-emotional health, development, and wellbeing of young people.

Stethoscope on an apple a child is holding.
Nenad Stojkovic
Food and Agriculture

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.
Reuters
Food and Agriculture

Time for a National Strategy on Food

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The Hill
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
Reuters
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