Better-connected agricultural markets can cushion shocks, stabilise supply and reduce exposure to global disruptions.

Throughout history, women have been the primary stewards of the land. Now, our vital role in feeding communities deserves recognition and celebration.

At the Asia and the Pacific Food Systems Forum, conversations centered around how ADB should spend the remainder of a splashy $40 billion commitment to transforming food systems that it made last year...

Millions of people in west Africa and the Sahel region face starvation.

Progress in eliminating the parasite will depend on uniting key players in the fight against livestock disease

EXPERT REACTION: Genetically modified purple tomato approved in Australia A genetically modified purple tomato has received all necessary approvals for commercial sale in Australia, accord

Trillions of miles of tiny fungal tubes embedded in soil transport nutrients to crops and other plants and fight climate change by storing carbon. Scientists are racing to understand how these fungi—i...

The Financial Times and World Vision are hosting this forum in Bangkok to give climate finance leaders, policy-makers, scientists, and health experts a place to align on what works. Join us on 27 Janu...

The U.S. Agency for International Development has been a major supporter of global agriculture research. Now many studies are being scuttled or scaled back. Crops and livestock that are essential for....

Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech in Davos, Switzerland, on the 'new world order' and how middle powers like Canada can benefit by working together.

Ending hunger is not only a question of producing more food - it is about who grows it, who has access to resources, and who reaps the benefits. Investing in the empowerment of women farmers is one of...

From Nairobi and Kampala to Accra and Maputo, the streets of Africa’s capitals have filled with young people demanding change. Over the past year, youth across the continent have marched to protest co...

with another round of negotiations looming at COP30 in November, there has been growing discontent with the UN climate process.

MONEYWISE: Policy Innovations to Finance Africa's Agrifood Systems.

But report warns that hunger is still climbing in much of Africa and that the overall improvement is not enough to meet UN targets

After growing strongly over five years from 2016, the voluntary carbon market shrank for the third consecutive year last year, weighed down by continuing concerns around quality and reputational risk, despite progress to improve integrity standards.

Four years after the first UN Food Systems Summit, the world needs progress, write Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted and Ismahane Elouafi.

Furthermore, these zoonotic diseases are on the rise. Virus jumps from animals to humans are increasing around five per cent annually, meaning these pathogens

Hard-won progress in improving child and maternal nutrition hangs in the balance

In a warehouse in Nigeria, a nonprofit’s stocks of food to treat malnourished children and pregnant women are running low. Former US aid workers have set up an initiative to find donors to save this a...

Gene editing holds the potential of suppressing mosquito species that carry deadly diseases — and raises ethical questions.

A global resolution on digital marketing of breast milk substitutes must be rigorously enforced, writes UN Assistant Secretary-General Afshan Khan.

Famine stalks Gaza as Israel blocks aid at the border

Climate change, animal trade and falling vaccination rates leading to rise

Climate change, animal trade and falling vaccination rates leading to rise

Few countries have promised to cut emissions enough to avoid catastrophic levels of global heating.

Knowing where food comes from and how it’s produced can empower consumers to make better choices. Here's how policy change and tech can drive systemic change.

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This year's $500,000 World Food Prize, for advances in agriculture and nutrition, goes to Mariangela Hungria, who boosted Brazil's farming revolution, turning the country into a soybean superpower.

Danone, Nestlé, Starbucks and General Mills are among the companies highlighted by Ceres for working to reduce emissions.

The budget request would make massive cuts to global health, humanitarian aid, and core economic and development work.

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During President Donald Trump's first term in office, a particular hell befell nearly 4,000 children who were separated from their families while trying to enter the U.S. at the southern border. At le...

Indigenous communities that rely on the natural flow of the Xingu River have long fought the Belo Monte dam in Brazil. With the dam now up for relicensing, they are urging the government to allow more...

Earlier this month, the Eastern Shoshone voted to classify buffalo as wildlife instead of livestock.

This event serves as both a tribute to the life and legacy of Professor Jeremy Swift and as a timely discussion on the pressing challenges facing Mali and the wider Sahel.

With aid funding falling and climate change accelerating, we must protect nutrition programmes or risk losing long-term gains

Heifer is using the grant, lending and technical assistance tools at its disposal as a global nonprofit to get agribusinesses to bankability.

Pr. Daouda Ngom, Minister of Environment and Ecological Transition for Senegal

In 2024, global aid fell for the first time in five years

Most of Australia’s plants rely on a hidden underground network of fungi for water and minerals. They could be in trouble – but we don’t have the data to know.

TOCOA, Honduras – On a rainy November day in 2024, Storm Sara, a slow-moving tropical cyclone, struck Honduras, claiming at least six lives and displacing more than 6,000 people. Along the country’s n...

Like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., we can’t resist the idea that natural means good, even when the evidence doesn’t agree.

Climate-resilient seed testing in Rwanda results in yields up to eight times the national average.