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  1. Congressional Aggies' Answer to the Climate Crisis

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    by Gloria Dabek

    Increasing climate crisis events necessitate bolder government response. The Growing Climate Solutions Act is one Congressional answer that advocates say benefits both farmers and the planet.

  2. A sign advertises a program that allows food stamp recipients to use their EBT cards to shop at a farmer's market in Topsham, Maine.
    AP Photos

    Neighborhood Dynamics in SNAP Participation and Food Access

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    by Katie Wilberding

    Accounting for neighborhood characteristics can help remove barriers to SNAP enrollment.

  3. Sir Fazle Hasan Abed is sitting in a classroom in front of a black board, smiling and looking to the right as he holds a brown cane.
    BRAC

    Hope Is Part of the Food Security Solution

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    by Scott MacMillan

    Scott MacMillan recalls 2015 World Food Prize winner Fazle Hasan Abed's legacy and its impact on food security.

  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

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    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. Women farming cassava in Sierra Leone.
    Annie Spratt

    How Data Addresses Food Insecurity Challenges in a Rapidly Urbanizing Africa

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    by Jones Kanjira

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

  6. Trek net fishermen haul in their catch on Fish Hoek beach in Cape Town
    REUTERS

    Closing Investment Gaps in African Aquatic Foods

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    by Faridah Ibrahim

    Aquatic food systems in Africa face many challenges and chronic underinvestment. WorldFish is trying to change that with the Fish for Africa Innovation Hub.

  7. A farmer rides a tractor through a crop while harvesting
    Jed Owen

    Systems Thinking at Work in South Asia's Food Production

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    by Hans Braun, Bruno Gerard

    How can we achieve food and nutritional security in ways that also enhance rural livelihoods, reduce environmental degradation, and boost agriculture’s resilience?

  8. Tuta absoluta, a pest mainly of tomato crops
    Patrick Clement

    The Chain Reaction of Climate Change and Invasive Species Spread: Impacts, Realities, and Sustainable Solutions

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    by Sara Hendery

    The extreme climatic events that are brought on by climate change, such as floods and droughts, open new entry points for the spread of invasive species.

  9. People carry food and supplies up stairs during a flood in Southeast Asia
    Ny Menghor

    Resilience+: How & Why Risk Management Innovations Reduce Poverty and Spur Agricultural Growth

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    by Michael Carter

    ​A growing body of research shows that resilience in itself may only be part of a of greater opportunity when the risk of weather-related disasters is what holds people back.

  10. A farmer rides a tractor through a crop while harvesting
    Jed Owen

    The Beauty of the Bottom Up: Making Crop Improvement Work for National Programs

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    by Hale Tufan

    Each year donors spend billions of dollars on agricultural research initiatives in developing countries in the fight to end hunger. Yet do these well-meaning efforts have the unintended consequence of imposing solutions from the top down?