Food Security

As regional conflicts blaze, Lebanese and Israeli drug markets are feeling the heat: over the past two years, hashish prices have fallen 50 percent in Lebanon, while in Israel, prices are rising.

Caroline Smith DeWaal, Deputy Director of EatSafe at the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), joins Caitlin Welsh to discuss the centrality of food safety to food and nutrition security, and how it is often overlooked in global food policy frameworks.

In the Jordan Valley, influential tribal members and landowners have steady access to water, while individual consumers and small farmers struggle.

Dr. Phillips explains the growing gap between food insecurity among women and men, and Dr. Herforth describes how the recent data released by the Global Diet Quality Project can be disaggregated to measure women’s dietary diversity around the world.

The VP of the Strategy and Knowledge Department at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) sits down with us to discuss IFAD’s priorities ahead of COP27.

Many countries have large trade deficits with oil producers in the Middle East, but Brazil is deep in surplus: it isn’t hungry for oil imports, but the region's consumers are hungry for its meat.

Ertharin Cousin, former Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme and U.S. Ambassador to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, discusses the first White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health held in over 50 years.

Zitouni Ould-Dada sat down with us to discuss the potential of agri-food systems to offer solutions to the climate change and biodiversity crises.

Senior Research Fellows at the International Food Policy Research Institute, Joseph Glauber and David Laborde, discuss the Russia-Ukraine War’s impact on global food security.

Hans Tung, Managing Partner at GGV Capital, and Fabián Gómez Gutiérrez, Founder and CEO of Frubana, discuss food tech streamlining the food supply chain to reduce food loss and waste while cutting costs for restaurants and consumers.