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AI and Global Food Security: A Focus on Food Systems

As food systems face increasingly severe and complex shocks, AI-enabled innovations are proliferating across food production, logistics, markets, and humanitarian response. CSIS experts unpack the challenges and opportunities of AI for global food systems.

Commentary by Zane Swanson, Emma Curtis, and Caitlin Welsh — August 21, 2026

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AI and Global Food Security: A Focus on Food Systems

As food systems face increasingly severe and complex shocks, AI-enabled innovations are proliferating across food production, logistics, markets, and humanitarian response. CSIS experts unpack the challenges and opportunities of AI for global food systems.

Commentary by Zane Swanson, Emma Curtis, and Caitlin Welsh — August 21, 2026

Rice at a Crossroads: Rethinking Japan’s Food Security

To ensure national food self-sufficiency in times of crisis while keeping prices affordable for consumers, Japan must strengthen its agricultural production capacity by better managing farmland, creating safety nets for farmers, and adopting cost-saving technologies.

Commentary by Ryosuke Inoue — August 20, 2026

Three Nations, One Table: North American Agriculture under USMCA

Join the Americas Program for a conference on USMCA and the future of North American food and agriculture. Experts will discuss food affordability, the successes and challenges of agricultural integration, and the risks that broader trade tensions pose to the agreement’s agricultural framework ahead of the 2026 review.

Event — June 24, 2026

Subsidies, Stockpiles, and Shortages

This installment of Charting the Middle East spotlights regional government responses to the Iran war’s widening impacts.

Newsletter by Josiane Atallah — June 18, 2026

Iran's Food Crisis

This installment of Charting the Middle East explores how the war has exacerbated Iran's economic collapse and its cost-of-living crisis.

Newsletter by Lilya Yatim — June 12, 2026

AI for Food Security Forum

The CSIS Global Food and Water Security Program will host a public event on the applications of AI for global food security.

Event — April 30, 2026

The Sudan War in 10 Charts

Sudan's civil war has entered its fourth year as the world's largest, most underfunded, and most overlooked humanitarian crisis.

Commentary by CSIS Scholars — April 17, 2026