Food/Agriculture

The Real Mohamed Bouazizi

One year on, a team of researchers uncovers the man behind the martyr and the economic roots of the Arab Spring.

BY HERNANDO DE SOTO | DECEMBER 16, 2011

Got Cheap Milk?

Why ditching your fancy, organic, locavore lifestyle is good for the world's poor.

BY CHARLES KENNY | SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

The Black Hawk Down Effect

We all know what went wrong the last time the international community tried to end a crisis in Somalia. But we've forgotten what went right.

BY JOHN L. HIRSCH | AUGUST 12, 2011

Man Bites Shark

Why are shark attacks on the rise? Because the balance of power between man and shark lies firmly -- too firmly -- with man.

BY JULIET EILPERIN | JULY 29, 2011

Dark Rumblings

Could sub-Saharan Africa have its own Arab Spring?

BY TY MCCORMICK | JULY 28, 2011

Interview: Rajiv Shah

The USAID administrator on the epic food crisis in the Horn of Africa, dealing with al Shabab, and why Somalia's famine is going to get worse before it gets better.

INTERVIEW BY ROBERT ZELIGER | JULY 28, 2011

Hunger in the Horn of Africa

Crippling drought has struck East Africa, leaving 12 million people in desperate need of aid.

JULY 21, 2011

The End of Hunger

Cut the development NGOs some slack.

JULY/AUGUST 2011

Food Fight

The new geopolitics of agriculture aren't new.

JULY/AUGUST 2011

Can the World Feed 10 Billion People?

With an exploding global population -- and Africa's numbers set to triple -- the world's experts are falling over themselves arguing how to feed the masses. Why do they have it so wrong?

BY RAJ PATEL | MAY 4, 2011

A Palatable World

Three ways the way we eat can save the planet.

BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | APRIL 28, 2011

The New Geopolitics of Food

From the Middle East to Madagascar, high prices are spawning land grabs and ousting dictators. Welcome to the 21st-century food wars.

BY LESTER R. BROWN | MAY/JUNE 2011

More Than 1 Billion People Are Hungry in the World

But what if the experts are wrong?

BY ABHIJIT BANERJEE, ESTHER DUFLO | MAY/JUNE 2011

How Food Explains the World

From China's strategic pork reserve to a future where insects are the new white meat, 10 reasons we really are what we eat.

BY JOSHUA KEATING | MAY/JUNE 2011

Street Eats

From Cairo to Indonesian volcanoes, the way the world eats out.

APRIL 25, 2011

Eat, Drink, Protest

Buying peace, one feast at a time.

BY ANNIA CIEZADLO | MAY/JUNE 2011

The Baguettes of War

Inside the Middle East's defiant kitchens.

BY ANNA BADKHEN | MAY/JUNE 2011

Half a Miracle

Medellín's rebirth is nothing short of astonishing. But have the drug lords really been vanquished?

BY FRANCIS FUKUYAMA, SETH COLBY | MAY/JUNE 2011

On the Road to Doha

How the WTO has liberalized agricultural trade.

BY JASON H. GRANT , KATHRYN A. BOYS | APRIL 18, 2011

System Upgrade

We're saddled with a 20th Century trading system. We need new rules for tomorrow -- and we need them now.

BY PASCAL LAMY | APRIL 18, 2011

Fukushima's Hidden Fallout

Four ripple effects from Japan's disaster. 

APRIL 13, 2011

Think Again: The Afghan Drug Trade

Why cracking down on Afghanistan's opium business won't help stop the Taliban -- or the United States' own drug problems.

BY JONATHAN P. CAULKINS, JONATHAN D. KULICK, AND MARK A.R. KLEIMAN | APRIL 1, 2011

Eating My Way Through the Cedar Revolution

In this excerpt from a memoir of love and war, a former Beirut correspondent recalls the way her experience of Lebanon's most turbulent times was shaped by the meals she ate throughout.

BY ANNIA CIEZADLO | MARCH 15, 2011

How the G-20 Can Prevent a Food Crisis

During the French presidency of the G-20, one of our top priorities is to tackle alarming price hikes in the commodity markets. Here's how we can get the job done.

BY BRUNO LE MAIRE | MARCH 14, 2011

Corps Concerns

In an age of globe-trotting American college kids, ubiquitous Internet access, and cell phone networks that reach even sub-Saharan cattle herders, does the world still need the Peace Corps?

BY CHARLES KENNY | FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Egypt's Cauldron of Revolt

It was striking workers that first inspired the Egyptian uprising. And they're still at it.

BY ANAND GOPAL | FEBRUARY 16, 2011

The Stories You Missed in 2010

Ten events and trends that were overlooked this year, but may be leading the headlines in 2011.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | DECEMBER 2010

The Save-the-World Clock

Global leaders promised a decade ago to end poverty by 2015. With just five years left, the U.N. General Assembly -- including an estimated 140 heads of state -- will meet this week to assess progress. How much good has been done? Here's a hint: not enough.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Grain Pains

Imagine if the drought this summer near Moscow happened near Chicago or Beijing. Lester Brown has, and he's afraid.

INTERVIEW BY CHRISTINA LARSON | AUGUST 26, 2010

A Food Program That's Not About Food

What India's starving children don't need is more blind handouts. What they do need is real social change.

BY PURNIMA MENON | AUGUST 26, 2010