The G20 leaders at the summit in Los Cabos, Mexico are no doubt focused on the global economic slowdown and ongoing Eurozone crisis, but an ad hoc group of donors took time on Monday to announce the launch of a concrete development deliverable...

Are farmers part of the ‘Future we Want’? After two years of consultations capped off by two intensive weeks of sessions and negotiations, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (aka. Rio+20) has produced a 53-page document outlining a renewed vision for sustainable development and commitment “to ensuring the promotion of an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable future for our planet and for present and future generations.” Sustainable agriculture, food security and smallholder farmers are now formally part of that equation...

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs is pleased to release a new Issue Brief, entitled, “The Power of Private Investment: Leveraging the Strengths of Business to Meet Food Security Goals” (PDF). This is the first in a series of briefs, based on the topics discussed in the new Chicago Council dinner series, Open Table: Exploring the Potential of Agriculture to Alleviate Hunger and Poverty...

By: Kristin Wedding, Deputy Director and Fellow, Global Food Security Project, CSIS

Washington, D.C. (June 26, 2012) – The World Food Prize Foundation awarded its Borlaug Medallion to the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities today...