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

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?

Across Africa, food processors serve a vital function in protecting food security and livelihoods. But the COVID-19 pandemic is creating new challenges that threaten the very survival of these companies.

​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.

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.

In the battle between pathogen and host—whether a human or food crop—it’s often a deadly race to see who wins.

Our Field Notes series explores how food systems innovation and agricultural research and development can empower farmers and feed the world.

Through selective breeding of African indigenous chickens to improve small scale poultry production, we can tackle food insecurity in Tanzania and Ghana.

Farmers’ decisions to change the way they have farmed for years and start using new conserving agricultural practices such as conservation tillage, cover cropping, or buffer strips will depend in large part on how much it will cost.

The Partners in Health co-founder explains why inequality or material constraints—rather than social differences—are the defining factor of whether outbreaks turn into pandemics.