Food and Agriculture

With the threat of antimicrobial resistance on the rise, we are heartened by President Barack Obama’s recent executive order that outlines a national strategy to combat drug resistance, including creation of an inter-agency task force to implement and monitor the plan.  The&nbsp...

Several colleagues and I are still debating what we’ve learned about Fairtrade from the recent flurry of attention to the topic. 

You may have recently seen articles in one of several media outlets about a new study that purportedly shows that Fairtrade has failed African farmworkers. Does that mean you should stop buying Fairtrade coffee and other products?

Bravo to Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.) for trying to free international food aid from the 1950s-era practices that cost lives and waste taxpayer dollars. 

Climate-smart agriculture is all the buzz in development circles. It is one of the World Bank’s five key areas for climate action and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki officially endorsed a proposal to establish an Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture. 

I’ll admit that I’m not a Nascar fan, and I only watch horse racing during the Triple Crown (usually only the first two legs). But I am a big baseball fan and I still don’t think that my taxpayer dollars should be used to subsidize the building of fancy new stadiums, any more than ...