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The fallout from COVID-19, land grabs, and deforestation in Argentina’s Gran Chaco Forest region
Overlapping impacts on indigenous communities and a key ecosystem.
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Financing Viet Nam’s flood fighting efforts
Addressing rising climate risks.
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Regional war, global consequences: Mounting damages to Ukraine’s agriculture and growing challenges for global food security
As farmers struggle, production of key export crops remains low.
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How mobile technologies are reducing gender inequities in Tanzania’s agrifood system
Leveraging expanding cell phone use.
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Overcoming the threats to global food systems from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Steps for limiting damage and building resilience for future shocks.
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Feed the microbes
Why soil is key to addressing climate change.
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A tribute to the late Dr. Ferew Lemma
Remembering a nutrition champion.
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Getting to ‘Five Servings Per Day’
A strategy of "push" and "pull" actions and policy solutions to encourage better nutrition.
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Improving food donation policies is key to fighting food waste
Ways to craft incentives to encourage more giving.
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Nine more harvests to transform our food systems: Let’s make them count for everyone, everywhere, and for all time
The Action Track Chairs for the UN Food Systems Summit on next steps for change.
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The transformational role of science for the UN Food Systems Summit agenda
Fostering research and innovation is crucial to meet 21st century challenges.
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How big companies can help to end hunger
Introducing the “End Hunger, Nourish the Future Pledge."
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Crowdsourced data reveals threats to household food security in near real-time during COVID-19 pandemic
A project in Nigeria pinpoints price spikes.
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COVID-19 crisis: An opportunity for long-delayed agricultural reforms in India
Three new laws aim to provide more market access for farmers and stimulate private investment.
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How India’s agrifood supply chains fared during the COVID-19 lockdown, from farm to fork
Food systems have proven more resilient than many expected, but vulnerable populations still need help.
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Prepare food systems for a long-haul fight against COVID-19
Policy recommendations to avert a global food crisis.
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COVID-19 and the promise of food system innovation
Pandemic lockdowns have sparked creative responses to match shifting food supply with demand—showing the possibility of broader reinvention.
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Water in the COVID-19 crisis: Response, recovery, and resilience
How water connects the many global systems now being disrupted by the pandemic.
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Biblical, on steroids, and across generations: The coming food and nutrition crash can be averted if we act now to counter the COVID-19 crisis
Act now to head off a looming nutrition disaster for the world's poor.
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Diets in a time of coronavirus: Don’t let vegetables fall off the plate
The COVID-19 pandemic poses challenges for vegetable production—and for global food security—due to its seasonal nature, labor needs, and the perishability of fresh produce.
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Addressing COVID-19 impacts on agriculture, food security, and livelihoods in India
Hundreds of millions already living precariously now face severe hardship; India should think big when it comes to relief efforts.
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Cómo COVID-19 puede interrumpir las cadenas de suministro de alimentos en los países en desarrollo
Lockdown measures will hit widely but unevenly, with most impacts felt in urban and peri-urban areas.
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Comment le COVID-19 pourrait perturber les chaînes de valeur alimentaires dans les pays en développement
Lockdown measures will hit widely but unevenly, with most impacts felt in urban and peri-urban areas.
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How COVID-19 may disrupt food supply chains in developing countries
Lockdown measures will hit widely but unevenly, with most impacts felt in urban and peri-urban areas.
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Lockdowns are protecting China’s rural families from COVID-19, but the economic burden is heavy
A Stanford survey shows restrictions are working to limit outbreaks among China's 700 million rural residents, but harming livelihoods, education, and other areas of life.
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Circular agriculture: A vision for sustainability
Dutch Minister Carola Schouten on integrating farming, nature, and food.
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A new method of agricultural growth accounting
Breaking out the role R&D and other factors play in a key metric.
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IFPRI short video contest: Planting my path in Nepalese agriculture
From a childhood working on her grandfather's farm to training farmers in sustainable agriculture.
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IFPRI short video contest: School garden and healthy cooking program targets the double burden of malnutrition in Mexico
Nutrition students at the University of Monterrey, Mexico, on what inspired their middle school gardening and cooking program.
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Global markets can help reduce climate-driven food insecurity
Smallholder farmers face rising production volatility from climate impacts. Open trade can help stabilize food supplies and prices.
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Achieving agricultural sustainability depends on gender equality
Essential efforts to level the playing field for women farmers include improving land tenure rights and boosting access to credit.
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A new approach to modeling: Placing sustainable development at its core
A new book advances a holistic approach to modeling the SDGs and similar complex development processes.
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How air pollution is holding down wheat yields in India
Research reveals a large hidden cost of ozone and aerosol emissions.
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After 75 years, agriculture and nutrition meet again
The first UN Conference on Food and Agriculture, held in 1943, urged a focus on nutrition in the fight against hunger. Yet it took decades for the global community to take that message to heart, Jessica Fanzo and Derek Byerlee write.
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Why now is the moment to invest in nutrition to transform our food systems
The Coordinator of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement on reforming the way food is grown, delivered, and consumed for global well-being.
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Why empowering young people is key to ending global hunger and malnutrition
Rose Jade Eugenie Delgado, a Global Youth Leader for Nutrition, on mobilizing a key demographic to bring about change.
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Unlocking the potential of genomics to accelerate sustainable development
BGI Senior Vice President Ren Wang on how scientific innovations are addressing the threat that zoonotic diseases pose to the rural poor.
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ColdHubs: Addressing the crucial problem of food loss in Nigeria with solar-powered refrigeration
Startup CEO Nnaemeka C. Ikegwuonu on an affordable way to build cold chains in developing countries.
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Sharing China’s agricultural experience to help solve Africa’s development challenges
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation China Director Yinuo Li writes on the promise of China-Africa partnerships for the continent's agricultural development.
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To address the triple burden of malnutrition, focus on food systems and demand
To meet food security goals in today’s world, we must consider the stresses on food systems. Rising demand for food, driven by population growth, dietary change, and the effects of climate change and other environmental problems.
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Could a U.S. – China trade war lead to a new wave of land grabs?
A battle over trade could shift global soybean markets, generating a wave of impacts around the world that developing countries should prepare for.
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Unleash the power of young Africans: Supporting the farmers of tomorrow
The average age of farmers worldwide is 60+. How to bring young people into African agriculture.
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Agriculture is key for economic transformation, food security, and nutrition
To make the large leaps that raise living standards and reduce hunger and malnutrition, begin with agriculture.