Commentary

We live in a world of plenty, now producing enough food to feed everyone.  So why do more than 2 billion people suffer from food insecurity?

We share our top picks for books to read in the weeks ahead that delve into what sort of world might emerge when the pandemic has passed.

Roger Thurow, senior fellow for the Center on Global Food and Agriculture, takes a minute to discuss how COVID-19 has affected food security.

On this special edition Deep Dish episode, The Wall Street Journal’s Dasl Yoon reports from Seoul on South Korea’s approaches to containing COVID-19.

Tens of millions of people in East Africa, the Horn, and up through the Middle East are facing the prospect of extreme hunger as a plague of locusts spreads in the region.

Across the Midwest, the virus is revealing the always tenuous hold on a decent income for many.

Far from merely reflecting an unequal distribution of economic means, rising inequality comes with a range of toxic side effects, many of which the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown into sharp relief.

Oriana Skylar Mastro, political scientist and expert on Chinese military and security policy, takes a minute to discuss China's approach to projecting influence as a global military power and what it means for the US and its allies.

With the loss of Angela Merkel, will the EU survive COVID-19, which is yet another institutional and existential blow? ​

Reducing postharvest losses by half would result in enough food to feed a billion people, increase smallholder income levels and minimize pressure on natural resources.