Global Food for Thought Newsletter
Each week, our Center on Global Food and Agriculture recaps top news and research in food, agriculture, and global development.
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The Global Food for Thought news brief provides a succinct, unbiased summary of the week’s news, highlighting critical trends as they evolve. A key area of study for the Center on Global Food and Agriculture, the news brief delivers the most pressing global news on food and agriculture to your inbox.
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New Hope, Halting Hunger, and Smart Potatoes
This week's top story examines the destruction of the pivotal Nova Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine and its impact on nearby farmland.
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- New Hope, Halting Hunger, and Smart Potatoes
- Land Rights, Grain Giants, and Something Fishy
- Fear China Not, Bread Crisis, and Bokashi Revolution
- Got Milk, Wonder Water, and a New Outbreak
- AIM4C Summit, Egg-celent News, and Locust Fears
- Indigenous Land, Tense Talks, and Going Green
- Honey Trap, Plant-Based Workout, and Climate Financing
- Pulling the Plug, Hydropower Future, and In Hot Water
- Spicy Growth, Holding On to Hope, and Tech Boom
- Cosmic Harvest, Something's Fishy, and Growing Meat
- Impossible Chicken, Fish Out of Water, and Political Earthquakes
- Super Tomatoes, Corn Wars Part III, and Wheat Woes
- All Dried Up, North Korean Catastrophe, and Flu Fears
- Mad Cow, Ukraine's Anniversary, and Agricultural Innovation
- Orange Futures, Deforestation Decline, and Ohio Chemical Spill
- Zoonotic Possibilities, Earthquake Aftermath, and Taking to the Streets
- Opium Boom, Water Wars, and the Green Tech Race
- Tribal Solutions, Rat Infestation, and Baby Food
- Techno-Farming, Recycling Manure, and Cutting Carbon
- Vaccine Victory, Falling Eggspectations, and Avian Influenza
- 2023: A Year to Come
- 2022: A Year in Review
- Techno Rice, Trouble in Tunisia, and a Chance for Chicken
- Christmas Tree Troubles, Fishy Rebound, and Wonder Wheat
- Trapped Tigrayans, Subterranean Solution, and a Thanksgiving Legacy
- Hot Water, Turkeyless Thanksgiving, and Climate Chaos
- Special Edition: COP27
- Road Rage, Lula's Success, and Russia Reverses
- Turkey Troubles, a Fishy Fix, and South Africa's Success
- Burp Tax, Venezuela's Crisis, and Resistant Rice
- Black Gold, Efficient Cows, and Regenerative Farming
- White House Conference, Beefing Up, and Feeding the Taliban
- Soil Salutations, A New Band-Aid, and Runaway Rice
- Taliban Assets, Maize Malaise, and Broken Rice
- Bugging Out, Somalia's Imminent Crisis, and Pest Plague
- Plastic Meat, Disease Outbreak, and Growing in the Dark
- Slowing Deforestation, WFP Cutbacks, and Vertical Farms
- Food Security, Trade Conferences, and Aquatic Systems
- Global Hunger, Grain Blockades, and Carbon Credits
- Grain Blockades, Food Apartheid, and Water Crises
- Moon Farming, Export Negotiation, and Stagflation
- Organic Mandate, Growing Solar, and Allergens
- Agroecology, Blue Foods, and Happier Meals
- The People's Summit, Land Rights, and Taxi Gardens
- CRISPR Access, Counterinsurgency, and Wild Crops
- Climate Famine, Seeds, and a Land Survey
- Strategic Leniency, Golden Rice, and a Fertilizer Ban
- Superweeds, Dams, and Weedkilling Robots
- Amaranth, Brain Food, and a Diversified Database
- The Pig Pandemic, Reforestation, & Fraudulent Seeds
- Pre-Summit Protests, Booming Beehives, & Costly Coffee
- Wild Pigs, Lab Foie Gras, and Drought Reroute
- A New Brew, Price Forecast, and Nano Sensors
- Paper Wrappers, Cultivating Crickets, and Aid's Limits