By Gustavo Polanco

Many individual smallholder farmers lack a defined market for their products and are forced to accept unfairly low prices. Heifer International’s Gustavo Hernandez weighs in on Guatemala’s power imbalance.

By David Njagi

The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics has worked with over 25 million farmers in Africa and Asia through the Tropical Legumes Project — a $67 million project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

By Teresa Welsh

IDB Invest CEO James Scriven says that as the world's largest exporter of food the world, Latin America can influence how the world sustainably feeds a growing population.

By Ruth Richardson

A week before the inaugural UN Food Systems Summit, the Global Alliance for the Future of Food’s Ruth Richardson weighs in on how to unpack and tackle the counterproductive narratives that hold back food systems transformation.

By Nithin Coca

Despite the threat of climate change, Indigenous peoples still maintain food growing and harvesting practices that are centuries old, and often have lower food insecurity rates. What can be learned from their success?

By Will Brett Harding

Harmful commercial marketing is undermining children’s healthy relationship with food and affecting childhood obesity rates. Recognizing the rights of children is a vital step toward a concerted global effort to address the problem.

By Teresa Welsh

Predictions of the pandemic's influence on global hunger levels have been realized as around 118 million more people faced hunger last year than in 2019, according to this year's "The State of Food Insecurity and Nutrition in the World" report.

By Lisa Moon

For governments to address the growing hunger crisis and achieve SDG 2, they must partner with local food banks.

By Rachel Shue

Pavan Sukhdev, CEO at GIST, discusses the value of public goods and 2021 as a year for action to transform food systems.

By Mahima Jain

While millet advocates point to its many benefits, breaking the hierarchy of cereals that have dominated the market and our plates for decades isn't going to be easy.

By Teresa Welsh

The U.N. Food Systems Summit has released its list of ideas for food systems transformation curated from dozens of dialogues and submissions.

By David Njagi

Though the Kenyan government has begun the process of establishing six agro-processing zones, local entrepreneurs say that progress has been too slow and that the industry needs additional support.

By Marie Haga

The reasons for migration are complex. Intertwined with crime, violence, climate change, and poverty, are failing food systems. To address migration, we also need to address the challenges rural people face to grow our food.

By Alice Ruhweza, Jeff Worden

World Wide Fund for Nature's Alice Ruhweza and Jeff Worden weigh in on how to reset the African agricultural sector's relationship with nature.

By Christine Luby

Ismahane Elouafi discusses the pros and cons of science and technology in solving the challenges of current food systems.

On World Environment Day, explore this photo essay to see how food systems can be greener.

By Rebecca Root

A new network is one of many initiatives working to safeguard local fisheries after COVID-19 highlighted their importance for livelihoods, food security, and nutrition.

By Nadra Franklin

Anemia claims too many lives each year, having detrimental effects on pregnant women and girls, which negatively impact families, communities, and countries. Proven solutions are available. Much can be done, says Nadra Franklin of FHI Solutions.

By Shabtai Gold

Global food prices have been sharply rising, and the inflationary pressures could have serious consequences for the world’s poor, according to the World Bank and United Nations.

By Nicoline de Haan

Thanks to agricultural innovations, we are making progress on gender equality in food systems. But, tough new questions on potential trade-offs and backlashes demand more investment into gender research.

By Maryline Darmaun, Martin Herren, Fabio Leippert

Within food production, the best way to address climate change is by fostering biodiversity through agroecological principles, building on best practices, and creating an enabling policy environment.

By Jennifer Clapp, Martin Cole, Thanawat Tiensin

There are calls for a new science-policy body for food security and nutrition — but a high-level group that does this exact work already exists, write Committee on World Food Security panel experts.

By Catherine Macharia-Mutie, Caroline Mukeku, Benson Mutuku

For systemic and sustainable change, organizations need to institutionalize gender and nutrition priorities, according to senior staffers at Tanager and the IGNITE project.

By Devex Editor

Food security and nutrition experts discuss the impact of COVID-19 on food and health systems, lessons learned, and opportunities to deal with ongoing challenges, in an online event on May 12.

By Teresa Welsh

Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted has won the 2021 World Food Prize for her work in nutrition-sensitive aquaculture.

By Teresa Welsh

The 2021 "Global Report on Food Crises" finds that an estimated 20 million more people were food insecure in 2020 than in 2019.

By Rachel Shue

Pat Mooney of IPES-Food talks about why he’s critical of the Food Systems Summit as it stands, and what he thinks could be done to strengthen its credibility.

By Teresa Welsh

A public-private partnership between the U.N. Development Program in Yemen and the Port of Rotterdam is recommending a series of reforms to help reduce the cost of food.

By Teresa Welsh

The civil society group rejects new voluntary guidelines adopted by member states in February because of a lack of focus on human rights and agroecology.

By Teresa Welsh

Prolonged droughts are leading more people to leave their homes and travel north.

By Paul Adepoju

Though nutrition activists say urgent action is needed to address obesity in Africa, they have warned that governments must start by reimagining food systems and educating populations.

By Teresa Welsh

A new report from the Global Child Nutrition Foundation has found a correlation between including school meal programs as a national budget line item and the number of children served.

By Teresa Welsh

The International Food Policy Research Institute's 2021 Global Food Policy Report documents how innovation during the pandemic proves that food systems reform is possible.

By Teresa Welsh

U.N. Food Systems Summit organizers say they are open to transformative ideas from anywhere, but civil society representatives argue that they do not have enough of a say in the process.

By Teresa Welsh

The World Health Organization will not endorse plant-based ready-to-use therapeutic foods, saying more data is needed even after trials showing promise for recipes that could increase coverage of wasting treatment.

By Teresa Welsh

Originally sold as the best way to scale treatment for severe acute malnutrition, community-based management of acute malnutrition has not expanded coverage to all children who need it.

By Carol Dreibelbis, Blythe Thomas, Sandy Remancus

Harnessing food systems to improve nutrition too often ignores the nutrition babies receive from nature's perfect food system: breastfeeding. 1,000 Days and Alive & Thrive explain why greater investment is needed to tackle obstacles to breastfeeding.

By Teresa Welsh

The U.S. convened a U.N. Security Council debate Thursday to discuss the link between conflict and hunger, as human-made crises and violence drive food insecurity globally.

By Teresa Welsh

The third set of papers in a series of research examining the state of nutrition for young children and women outlines the steps to reach scale.

By Teresa Welsh

The United Nations Environment Programme's "Food Waste Index Report 2021" found that as much as 17% of total global food production is never consumed, contributing to climate change.

By Serena Stepanovic

COVID-19 continues to amplify food systems gaps. Building back better must include strengthening food supply chains; doing so sustainably requires rethinking business as usual, World Vision US explains.

By Linus Unah, Kelechukwu Iruoma

“We are still drinking the [contaminated] water,” says King Emere Godwin Bebe Okpabi, leader of the Ogale community. “That is the extent of the damage.”

By Teresa Welsh

The U.S. isn't ready to announce any pledges of funds or action for the U.N. Food Systems Summit or the Nutrition for Growth Summit, according to USAID Chief Nutritionist Shawn Baker.

By Rachel Shue

The 2021 Food Systems Summit is a great opportunity to change mindsets, policies, investment patterns, and food production practices. The CEO of Biovision Foundation discusses why.

By William Worley

Though experts warn that nutrition underpins key government development objectives, many are concerned that U.K. budget reductions will undercut existing efforts to shore up food security.

By Lisa Moon

One-third of food is wasted despite billions going hungry. Food banks are a community-based solution to not only help feed more people, but reduce food waste and loss, and impact on the environment, explains The Global FoodBanking Network.

By Kavitha Iyer

While the government has presented three laws to liberalize India’s agricultural markets, economists and farm leaders say the reforms should take a bottom-up approach instead of relying on private players.

By Teresa Welsh

The document is a nonbinding tool for governments, U.N. agencies, civil society, the private sector, and financial institutions to provide guidance, policies, and interventions for addressing malnutrition through a holistic food systems perspective.

By Agnes Kalibata

Agnes Kalibata, the U.N. secretary-general's special envoy for the Food Systems Summit 2021, discusses how food systems can be transformed by sharing platforms, ideas, and learnings on a global level.

By Helen Castell

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated food price increases for the world’s most vulnerable people. Trade liberalization could help.

By Dr. Sufia Askari, Sarah Gibson, Anna Hakobyan

A hot, hungry, and crowded planet is threatening global peace and prosperity. CIFF highlights how food is cultural and local data and local actions are urgently required to fix our food systems.

By Teresa Welsh

The storms destroyed crops and floodwaters still linger, driving up food prices and threatening child malnutrition.