Commentary

In our latest collaboration with Agri-Pulse, Jess Fanzo and Lawrence Haddad explain how the Food Systems Dashboard helps policy makers and farmers alike.

Recent years have tested the resiliency of farmers with trade wars, catastrophic floods, and now the COVID-19 pandemic, but farmers are #StillFarming.

Animal agriculture has faced challenges around distribution and processing during the pandemic restrictions, but if safely managed, animal-sourced foods can be a powerful force against global hunger.

A secure food supply chain is critical to ensure that the COVID-19 crisis does not become a cycle of food insecurity and illness. We must rethink our food supply.

Better water management is crucial to global food and nutrition security.

A special guest commentary piece explaining the historic breakthrough for a durable and safe solution for late-blight potato disease.

Khalid Bomba, agriculture expert, takes a minute to discuss the importance of agriculture to the economy of Ethiopia and the need to get young people more actively involved.

Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia each lose about 11 percent of GDP annually. In our global economy, a stunted child anywhere becomes a stunted child everywhere.

Despite stresses caused by the pandemic there are resources to further develop symbiotic relationships between producers, suppliers, and consumers.

Several forces propelled by the COVID-19 pandemic may intersect to spin new life into more of the Midwest's still-struggling factory towns, second-tier cities, and rural hinterlands.