Interview with Doug Rauch: Creating health care, disguised as a grocery store
This week’s launch of a new grocery store concept, The Daily Table, has drawn a great deal of media attention. As it should. A retail model utilizing wasted food? The …
FAO: Protracted crises push hunger rates up in Near East, North Africa
While hunger rates have declined across the world, some 33 million people in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) are chronically hungry today. That is double the number reported …
UN: Social protection programs hold key to beating world hunger
Yesterday, the UC Food Observer shared information about SIFO – State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015 – a report issued by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), …
Report: State of food insecurity in the world 2015
While the number of food insecure people in the world has dropped to 795 million, one in every nine people still goes hungry. And the changing nature of global crises …
Tackling chronic hunger: lessons from the sack farmers of Kibera
Kibera is one of Africa’s largest and poorest urban areas. But residents there have found an innovative way to tackle food insecurity. Their method? Urban farms that feature sacks. What …
Report: U.S. should double investment in ag research to assure global food security
A new report issued by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs says that “research and development (R&D) is essential to sparking the innovations and approaches needed for today’s growers and …
University of California focuses on student food security
The USDA estimates that 1 in 7 U.S. households is food-insecure (i.e., their access to adequate food is limited). The USDA does not collect data specifically about hunger among college …
Op-Ed: Smallholder farmers are the new global food frontier
A third of the world’s 7.3 billion people are small farmers and their families. They work about 60% of the world’s arable land, producing nearly 70% of all food consumed …
Urban farming is booming. What does it really yield?
The United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has reported that 15-20 percent of the world’s food is produced in cities. Reasons for urban production vary, but include subsistence, the …
Healthy Food for a Healthy World
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs has issued a new report, Healthy Food for a Healthy World: Leveraging Agriculture and Food to Improve Global Nutrition. The report was issued at …