Commentary

Toward a New Global Governance System for Agriculture, Food, and Nutrition 
What Are the Options?

Prices are surging for food commodities worldwide, posing a tough policy challenge for developing countries—can they protect poor consumers without squelching new opportunities for farmers?

Poor people are often at great risk of losing the few assets they have when faced with an unexpected event, such as the death of a household member.

Press Release, November 6, 2007
The World’s Poorest People Not Being Reached: New Study Examines Plight of Poor Living on Less than 50 Cents a Day

Standing Panel on Impact Assessment: Science Council Brief Number 3

Global climate change poses particular risks to poor farmers in developing countries, but there are steps that farmers, policymakers, and researchers can take to minimize losses and adapt to climate change.

On October 23-25, 2003, Bioversity International convened a workshop for the System-wide Genetic Resources Programme (SGRP) of the CGIAR about “Managing Agricultural Biodiversity for Sustain

Washington, DC—According to the Global Hunger Index, developed by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), of the 12 countries with the highest levels of hunger, nine were affected by civil wars or violent conflicts.

What can the world learn from the process of economic reform in China and India? Does the sequencing of reforms matter?

In 2000, the member states of the United Nations committed themselves to creating a "more peaceful, prosperous and just world," to "free[ing] our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty," to ma