While there is more than enough food produced to feed the world’s population, hunger and food insecurity persist. In this vein, the World Bank funds projects that facilitate trade in food and trade of ...

World Food Day is a global call-to-action focused on one of the most fundamental challenges facing humanity: how to create an equitable, secure, and sustainable food system that works for everyone.

A developing El Niño could bring more than shifts in seasonal storm tracks as humanitarian officials are warning that a ...

While the world’s media bring terrible images of hungry Palestinians in Gaza to our screens—facing starvation due to Israel’s war of annihilation—rising levels of hunger in Africa and Asia go ...

The U.S. Agency for International Development has been a major supporter of global agriculture research. Now many studies are being scuttled or scaled back. By Ted Alcorn Crops and livestock that are ...

Michael Werz is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. His work focuses on the nexus of food security, climate change, migration, and emerging countries. The consequences of the Iran ...

As the global target to eliminate hunger by 2030 fast slips out of reach, investing in how the world feeds itself is the only way to avert a crisis.Investing in agrifood systems--from production and ...