Agriculture & Nutrition
Regenerative Agriculture to Mitigate Hunger: Thurow’s Latest Book
Book Review: Roger Thurow’s Against the Grain: How Farmers Around the Globe are Transforming Agriculture to Nourish the World and Heal the Planet (2024, Publisher: Agate Surrey) American journalist, Roger Thurow, has written consistently about global hunger and food issues for many years...
Past World Hunger Prize Winners
Thirteen winners of the World Hunger Prize issued an appeal on October 30, 2024 at the Borlaug Dialogue gathering in Des Moines, Iowa. The annual gathering, this year from October 29-31, showcased over 50 speakers from around the world, including the 2024 World Food Prize winners Dr. Geoffrey ...
Why Nations Fail, Famine and the Nobel Prize
The 2024 Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded in October to the authors Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson in part for the analysis of international inequalities in their best-selling 2012 book Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty (Crown Publishers), which arrays econo...
USDA Improving nutrition standards for school meals
The Washington Post recently reported that the USDA has announced new, more stringent, national nutrition standards for its school feeding program. This program reaches 30 million students at 100,000 schools nationwide. The new standards propose to lower sugars, fat and salt, while increasing whole ...
Humanitarian agencies advocate for simplified treatment of severe malnutrition
Thirteen aid agencies have signed a letter to Samantha Power, the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), advocating a simplified treatment for wasting (severe acute malnutrition). These agencies propose five steps to fight severe malnutrition global...
What If the world went to a plant based diet?
In this BBC article, Rachel Nuwer looks at the what might happen if the world suddenly went to a plant-based diet. Although according to a computer model, there would be a 70% decrease in emissions - good for the climate; the economic consequence would be hard on those already in poor areas. T...
Niger and Sahel use Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration Increase Yields to Improve Food Security
As described in this recent National Geographic article (see link below), farmers in Niger let cut trees regrow in their fields, leading to improved crop yields from retained soil moisture and fertilization by fallen leaves. Improved crop yields can improve food security. Over the past 35 years Nige...
Resilience Book Review: Ending Hunger – The Quest to Feed the World without Destroying It
Anthony Warner's 2022 book "Ending Hunger - the Quest to Feed the World Without Destroying it" (Oneworld Press) attempts to challenge the myths he sees in social discourse in developed countries about how to address world food problems. Based on his popular blog "the Angry Chef", he tries to repla...
WFP’s Chief Economist Comments that World is “Exploding” with Food Insecurity
In an comment on May 4, 2022 about the Global Network Against Food Crises report that Global hunger will increase this coming year; Arif Husain, the Chief Economist for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said the "the world is exploding with food insecurity"....
What War in Ukraine means for World Food Supply
This opinion piece in the New York Times looks into the ramifications of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing disruption of an agricultural breadbasket of Europe. Since staple grains are the food of the World's poorest, Bangladesh, Sudan and Yemen as well as many Middle Eastern countries ...
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