Food and Agriculture

2021 is the year of food. After the pandemic exposed how vulnerable food systems are, two global summits are placing...

“It doesn’t matter if global or national leaders talk love or make war, it is people who starve.”  paraphrased from...

This article is part of an editorial collaboration with Heifer International. It was first published on the Heifer International blog. Nothing...

Climate change is already undermining food systems in many parts of the world, contributing to a rise in global hunger...

Food insecurity is a problem that a select part of the world has the luxury of ignoring.  With a staggering...

This article is part of an editorial collaboration with Heifer International. It was first published on the Heifer International blog.  Healthy...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) just announced that global food prices have hit their highest level...

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, FAO Investment Centre has increased support to investment and policies, working in 120 countries across the...

It is no great surprise that many modern climate issues arise from the meat industry and its environmental externalities.  While...

The number of people who go to bed hungry was rising steadily prior to the COVID-19 pandemic due to stresses...

Editor’s Note: This is the second article about the role of livestock farming in climate change by Kees Blokland, a...

Agriculture and related land-use change generate one-quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Producing the food the world will...