Development

Measuring hunger: A Response to the FAO

In December 2012, I received an email from Frances (Frankie) Moore Lappé, a woman whose name I had known since I was a teenager interested in hunger and poverty issues and reading all I could on the subject. I was honored.

How to invest justly in small-scale agriculture

As the Rome-based Committee on World Food Security begins preparing principles for “responsible agriculture investment” (RAI), its advisory body, the High-level Panel of Experts (HLPE), gets ready to revise its report on “Smallholder agriculture investment.” It is hoped that the RAI principles, if crafted with input from small-scale food produce

A year of squandered opportunities to resolve the food crisis

January 31, 2013 – A drought in the United States last year sparked the third price spike in international food commodity markets in the last five years, again pushing maize, wheat, and soybean prices to record highs. Why are we still seeing such volatility six years after prices shot up in 2007? Have global leaders taken action to address the causes of this new food crisis?

Development

Measuring hunger: A Response to the FAO

How to invest justly in small-scale agriculture

A year of squandered opportunities to resolve the food crisis

For Haiti’s agriculture, the hits keep coming

Human rights and Rio+20

The G-20 agricultural agenda: Agricultural productivity growth in a vacuum

Industrial Agriculture and the Raising Sea: Do We Have to Choose Between the Devil and the Deep Sea?

G-8 punts on food security-to the private sector

Why the Right to Water is Under Attack

Call to action for the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation