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August 7, 2013

Development
Eliminating Poverty and Hunger By Empowering Women

Food security and hunger eradication are international priorities because of their indisputable positive impact on development goals, local and regional economies, and social stability. Yet despite g…

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June 22, 2023

United States
Meet Doug Burgum, Republican Presidential Candidate

The North Dakota governor is a candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

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April 29, 2020

United States
Coronavirus and Farmworkers: Is the Food Supply at Risk?

Foreign farmworkers, many of them undocumented, face unique risks due to the coronavirus pandemic. Their struggles reveal vulnerabilities in the U.S. food system.

June 1, 2011

Gender
Innovations and Innovators: Using Agricultural Technologies to Empower Women

PEDRO SANCHEZ:  (In progress.)  I was -- I joined Columbia University to start agriculture there, tropical agriculture -- interesting thing for a major urban university to do.  And then Secretary --…

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September 16, 2011

Economics
Reads of the Week: The Latin American Soybean Boom, Mexican Security Spending and U.S. Drug Markets

Workers harvest soybeans at a farm in Tangara da Serra, Brazil (Paulo Whitaker/Courtesy Reuters). A recent article by Mariano Turzi argues that soy is the most recent of Latin America’s commodity bo…

Reads of the Week: The Latin American Soybean Boom, Mexican Security Spending and U.S. Drug Markets