Global Food Fight
By Nancy Langer and Richard Marks – Jean Ziegler, the United Nations special rapporteur for the right to food, recently raised blood pressures by dubbing biofuels “a crime against humanity”. Criminal or not, the comment underscored a UN and World Bank commissioned report unveiled this month noting land diverted from agricultural use to bio-fuel production […]
Food Fight
Budget discipline notwithstanding, elected officials have strong incentives to support wasteful or unnecessary spending as long as it takes place in their states and districts. Beneficiaries out in the private sector thrive off the proceeds. And federal agencies fiercely defend the turf around their programs. This phenomenon gives birth to the kind of casual budgetary […]
An op-ed by Gordon Adams on reform of the U.S. food aid program is featured in Foreign Policy
Why is the agricultural lobby so mad at Obama? We can spend a lot of time (and I do) on the politics of the defense budget and the Iron Triangle that binds the Pentagon, the defense industry, and key members of Congress, making reform in the defense world difficult to execute. But there are a […]
The Fisheries-Food Security Nexus
In July 2012 the National Intelligence Council asked the Stimson Center to examine the role of fisheries in ensuring the food supply and food security of the littoral countries of the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea and resulting implications for US security interests. The Stimson Center produced a report analyzing the current status […]
Climate Change and Famine in Somalia
By Halae Fuller – The United Nations declared a famine in the Bakool and Lower Shabelle regions of southern Somalia on July 20, thrusting a humanitarian crisis that has been deteriorating for months into the spotlight. There are many causes exacerbating the impact of this famine: endemic poverty, decades of violence, the lack of a […]
David Michel quoted in Foreign Policy magazine about global food security
David Michel is quoted on global food security in “The Food Issue,” a special edition of Foreign Policy magazine. Click here to read.
Funding Food Security – A Financial Lens on the L’Aquila G8
By Eric Lief – Among billed centerpieces of this year’s G8 summit, world hunger is hardly a new topic for international political and policy focus. There has been an evolving consensus on substance and policy, and structural and programmatic impediments to progress have been widely documented.[1] What is new is the reality of a steady […]