Commentary and Analysis

This blog is about the disruption and impact COVID-19 has had on climate change and food systems around the world.

Researchers didn’t expect natural solutions to manage crop-destroying pests would inspire a cottage industry and female entrepreneurs in rural Niger.

Judd Devermont and Neil Munshi explain why Mali's instability is a threat to Africa's Sahel region.

Khalid Bomba, agriculture expert, takes a minute to discuss the importance of agriculture to the economy of Ethiopia and the need to get young people more actively involved.

Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia each lose about 11 percent of GDP annually. In our global economy, a stunted child anywhere becomes a stunted child everywhere.

Analysis of the Rural Household Multiple Indicator Survey and how it can make development-related actions more efficient, more effective, and quicker to deploy.

How could the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic lead to reduced food production and more food insecurity?

Tens of millions of people in East Africa, the Horn, and up through the Middle East are facing the prospect of extreme hunger as a plague of locusts spreads in the region.

Our Field Notes series explores how food systems innovation and agricultural research and development can empower farmers and feed the world.

Dr. Agnes Binagwaho discusses Rwanda's health system.