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  1. Women farming cassava in Sierra Leone.
    Annie Spratt

    How Data Addresses Food Insecurity Challenges in a Rapidly Urbanizing Africa

    Blog Post
    by Jones Kanjira

    Precise, timely, and trustworthy data can help achieve food security within African cities.

  2. A scientist working in a food and environmental testing laboratory
    IAEA Imagebank

    Food Safety Research is Foundational to Food Security

    Blog Post
    by Haley F. Oliver, Randy W. Worobo

    In this blog post from our "Field Notes" series, the authors underscore the point that foods can be nutritious, sufficient, and available—but if those foods are unsafe, there is no food security.

  3. A worker dumps pre-consumer food waste
    Reuters

    The Food Waste and Climate Connection

    Blog Post
    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.

  4. A farmer holds a sorghum plant destroyed after a swarm of locusts invaded his farm in Ethiopia
    Reuters

    The Plague You've Never Heard About Could be as Destructive as COVID-19

    Blog Post
    by Colin Christensen, Eva Koehler

    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.

  5. Cows in a open field at a dairy farm in California.
    Michael Pujals

    The Livestock Ladder’s Water Footprint

    Blog Post
    by Marcus Glassman

    In this post from our "Uncharted Waters" blog series, we discuss that while the water footprint of livestock is substantive, the cost of that footprint is far from straightforward.

  6. From Scarcity to Security: Managing Water for a Nutritious Food Future Report

    From Scarcity to Security: Managing Water for a Nutritious Food Future

    Report
    by Mark W. Rosegrant

    March 19, 2019, RESEARCH Report by Mark W. Rosegrant, Download Report (PDF), This report examines the urgent challenges created by water scarcity and the impact on food security., Introduction, Successful, sustainable water management in agriculture is imperative to achieve the food and nutrition...

  7. Four green scrap drop off bins sit in front of a brick wall
    City of Chicago

    Composting and food waste: What Chicago can learn from other global cities

    Blog Post
    by Nicole L. Cvetnic, Fiona Roach

    Chicago recently launched a citywide composting initiative to divert food waste from landfills and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions — something other global cities have been tackling for years.

  8. An aerial view of Chicago
    AP Photos

    Underground climate change is slowly sinking Chicago and cities across the globe

    Blog Post
    by Nicole L. Cvetnic

    We know Venice is sinking. What about Chicago, which accounts for about 234 square miles of land?

  9. A woman holding a laptop stands outside observing her farm.
    AP Photos

    A New Goal for Agricultural AI: Gender Mainstreaming

    Blog Post
    by Molly Shields

    The inclusion of gender mainstreaming in agricultural AI can help reduce gender inequity for female smallholder farmers.

  10. Exterior of a building with a colorful mural on the wall
    Kit Graham

    How Chicago's street art connects the city to the world

    Blog Post
    by Hope O'Dell

    Across Chicago, murals and other public artworks depict the city’s immigrant communities and our connections to cultures around the globe.