Commentary and Analysis

Integrated pest management benefits the environment, farmers' productivity, and time-strapped women around the world.

Catch the week's top news and research in food, agriculture, and global development in our Global Food for Thought news brief.

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.

Robert Muggah discusses the conflicts of climate change in West Africa.

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.

The Partners in Health co-founder explains why inequality or material constraints—rather than social differences—are the defining factor of whether outbreaks turn into pandemics.

Ethiopia's brewing civil conflict could have a broader impact on the region's politics and US policies towards the continent.

The Council's US Navy Federal Executive Fellow, Commander Michele Lowe, explains how food insecurity fears in Cameroon can fuel instability in our latest collaboration with Agri-Pulse.

Council expert Roger Thurow explains how most African countries don’t have the resources to provide aid to their own citizens.

Nearly a decade ago, SAWBO was launched by and remains co-directed by Drs. Julia Bello-Bravo and Barry Pittendrigh, both currently faculty members at Michigan State University (MSU).