The UNICEF report: Feeding Profit: How food environments are failing children. The UNICEF press release: Obesity exceeds underweight for the first time among school-age children and adolescents globally – UNICEF: One in 10 children worldwide living with obesity. Exposure to the marketing of ultra-processed foods found to be widespread. the prevalence of underweight among children aged 5-19 has declined since 2000, from nearly 13 per cent to 9.2 per cent, while obesity rates have increased from 3 per cent to 9.4 per cent.

The Trump administration has canceled the USDA’s annual food insecurity survey, ending a decades-long effort to track how many Americans struggle to access enough food, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

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Why this obscure survey from USAID has life-or-death stakes for global health. The Gates Foundation announced $25 million in emergency funding, but the long-term solution is far from clear.

This third edition of Food Policy in the United States offers a timely update to the leading textbook dedicated to all aspects of food policy in the United States. This book begins with the economic i...

Economics offers powerful tools to build skills and solve problems in the food system, but ANH Academy members often have little or no knowledge of how economics could help them reach their career goa...

Economics offers powerful tools to build skills and solve problems in the food system, but ANH Academy members often have little or no knowledge of how economics could help them reach their career goa...

Tinned fish in America no longer means a sad, forgotten can of tuna collecting dust in the pantry. And Americans looking to save money in the face of economic headwinds are fueling their soaring popul...

The food stocks have been stuck inside four U.S. government warehouses since the Trump administration's decision in January to cut global aid programs.

New dietary guidelines for Americans will be released before August and will be four pages long, directing Americans to "eat whole food," Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. told a U.S. House of Representatives committee on Wednesday.

Do work requirements increase work? Do they take benefits away from the neediest households? Evidence of the impact of SNAP work requirements on families.

Why government agencies don’t just share everything they know about you with every other government agency.

Imagine a world where over 1 million children across 85 countries died from a single nutrient deficiency—deaths that could be prevented with a semi-annual vitamin supplement. Millions of lives saved c...

This article introduces “Food Economics: Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health,” a new open access textbook that helps equip students with the skills needed to analyze complex food systems issues and co...

This textbook provides an accessible introduction to the market systems and governmental policies that link natural resources and the environment to food.

Household survey data is vital to health and development. The study describes and maps data quality in 35 African countries, finding that data quality varies and worsens with distance from towns, indi...

Measurement is not only a way of describing complex realities; it can also transform those realities by influencing policies. We live in an era of measurement innovation: new methods to deploy and ne...