Reducing food waste takes more than finishing your plate
Wasting less where food is produced is not only good for the planet, but it also helps reduce poverty -- the best way to get at hunger.
View ArticleWe can feed the world without chopping down more forests
And we should, even if that means -- gasp! -- using synthetic fertilizers.
View ArticleEven this organic advocate thinks African farmers need herbicide
The hard truth for poor farmers is that the organic method can cost too much and fail to deliver higher yields, according to a new paper from an expert on the ground.
View ArticleIs 4-H trying to hook African farmers on costly seeds?
A conversation with author Kiera Butler about the ethical issues around introducing developing countries to hybrid seeds that are high-yield -- and high-cost.
View ArticleFor farmers, using pesticides is a lot like picking the wrong smartphone
"Path dependency" is when a choice of technologies hems in your future. Is that happening today as developing countries build out their farming systems?
View ArticleFarm life without modern tech looks beautiful and backbreaking
A stunning video shows just how beautiful the Ethiopian landscape is -- and just how demanding the farm work is.
View ArticleFrom two Ethiopians, what small farmers really want
A new middle class can put down roots when small family farmers get the tools and education to produce more food.
View ArticleNo, sorry, but Peru is not organic-food heaven
Peru may have banned GMOs, but the success it has seen in feeding its people has a lot more to do with smart economic policies.
View ArticleInstead of trying to feed the world, we should be ending poverty
Relieving poverty is the single most important step we could take toward reducing hunger -- and way more effective than boosting crop yields.
View ArticleShould big business get out of the food business?
When it comes to food and farming technology, our political and economic beliefs trump the field knowledge of what works and what doesn't.
View ArticleFarm tech isn’t a war between good and evil — it’s a quest for whatever works
Forget the ideological showdowns. Poor farmers will thrive when they find the right mix of high and low technologies that serves their needs.
View ArticleWhy “get big” isn’t the answer for poor farmers around the globe
Here's why farms are getting smaller, not larger, in developing countries.
View ArticleFewer hungry humans — but still too many
A new report from the U.N. suggests how far we've come in bringing down the total number of hungry people around the globe. But awful disparities remain.
View ArticleAs farmland runs out, seafood looks better than you think
When it comes to producing more food from the ocean, the possibilities are bottomless.
View ArticleWhy food prices scaled the peaks — and why it matters
You may not have felt a thing, but when food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011, they sent experts into a tizzy of debate over why it happened and what we can learn.
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Eat less. Get healthy. Feed the world.
Whenever I talk about how we might feed ourselves more equitably and sustainably, I find myself returning to the pie metaphor. Our choices for ending hunger, in pie-language, are: bigger pie, fewer...
View ArticleChange 100 businesses, and the world’s food system will change with them
It’s become clear to me, as I’ve worked my way through this series, that we’re going to have to make some big changes if we want to feed ourselves without making our home (and only) planet a lot less...
View ArticleSolving hunger is simple — end poverty. Gulp.
The fact that people need to eat causes tremendous environmental and social problems. The solution, clearly, is to reengineer ourselves so that we don’t have to eat and instead draw energy directly...
View ArticleWhy free trade and government regulation should be BFFs
When it comes to food, should we be limiting markets — or freeing them up? The conditions of our moment in history make this question confusing. Today, market capitalism is almost universally accepted....
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So can we really feed the world? Yes — and here’s how
Over the past six months I’ve been trying to figure out how we can feed ourselves sustainably and equitably without wrecking the planet. I’ve been reading, interviewing experts, and blogging as I...
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