The world needs a new multilateral architecture to meet the growing challenge of food insecurity if we expect to feed a population projected to reach 9 billion by 2050. To meet this demand, we cannot focus solely on food production (which the UN Food and Agriculture Organization estimates must increase by 70 percent to...

When the children recovering from malaria in Kenya’s Kwale county hospital eat their lunch today, they will have fresh tomatoes and bell peppers. The vegetables will have come from local farms operated by the eight members of the women’s farmers group Tumaini Godzo. Just last month, the women won the county government te...

A few years ago, Dan Piraro drew a thought-provoking cartoon showing a physician talking to his patient, Planet Earth. “You’ve got advanced stage humans,” he says. “The good news is that they’ve just about run their course and you should be on the mend soon.”

One has to have a dark sense of humor to laugh at this overbur...

The Pentagon calls it a threat multiplier. Among some academics, it’s a stressor. In 2011, millions of Egyptians and Syrians knew it simply as hunger.

By any name, climate change is contributing not just to melting ice caps and rising sea levels, but also to drought, food shortages and, ultimately, to global instability....

Imagine a vibrant market in a village in Sub-Saharan Africa, filled with vendors selling lush tomatoes, hearty ears of corn, ripe mangos, and a myriad of other fruits, vegetables, and grains. Where did all that food come from? Where did the farmers get the financing to buy the seeds and fertilizer they needed? What rese...

The world is facing a food security challenge of unprecedented scale in the twenty-first century. The numbers are familiar, and they are stark: according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), food production must increase by at least 60 percent in the next 35 years to feed Earth’s growing...

It is peculiar to live in a world where hunger is an endemic problem for half the planet while diet books are best-sellers in the other half. This point is often lost in the broader bundle of jargon that now defines the conversation on food security in the twenty-first century, but it should not be.

A food security exper...

Tonight, one in eight of the world's people – 842 million men, women and children – will go to bed hungry.  In the developing world, one child in four is stunted, physically and mentally, because they do not have enough to eat.

The good news is that it doesn’t need to be this way. There are many proven strategies...