Food/Agriculture

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

The Coming Food Crisis

Global food security is stretched to the breaking point, and Russia's fires and Pakistan's floods are only making a bad situation worse.

BY JOHN D. PODESTA, JAKE CALDWELL | AUGUST 26, 2010

The Way to America’s Heart Is Through Its Stomach

The rise of food diplomacy will see the world's smallest countries elbowing their ajvar, pljeskavica, and musakhan onto your table.

BY NEAL UNGERLEIDER | JULY 14, 2010

A Tremor for Haiti's Aid Industry

The earthquake was only the latest disaster to capsize the country's already fragile local aid economy. Now outside organizations are threatening to overwhelm it entirely.

BY POOJA BHATIA | JUNE 30, 2010

Don't Panic, Go Organic

Be not troubled by Robert Paarlberg's scaremongering. Organic practices can feed the world -- better, in fact, than wasteful industrial farming.

BY ANNA LAPPÉ | APRIL 29, 2010

Bomb Scare

The world has a lot of problems. An exploding population isn't one of them.  

BY CHARLES KENNY | MAY/JUNE 2010

Attention Whole Foods Shoppers

Stop obsessing about arugula. Your "sustainable" mantra -- organic, local, and slow -- is no recipe for saving the world's hungry millions.  

BY ROBERT PAARLBERG | MAY/JUNE 2010

An Ode to Farming

Images of agriculture around the world.

APRIL 26, 2010

Food Fights

Some of the world's most bitter conflicts have nothing to do with access to resources, ethnic chauvinism, or the balance of power. Here's a short guide to the planet's fiercest gastronomic controversies.   

BY ANNIE LOWREY | MAY/JUNE 2010

Peak Phosphorus

It's an essential, if underappreciated component of our daily lives, and a key link in the global food chain. And it's running out.

BY JAMES ELSER, STUART WHITE | APRIL 20, 2010

Interview: Raymond A. Joseph

Haiti's ambassador on his hopes for the more than $5 billion pledged in aid at this week's donor conference -- and why Haiti can't be rebuilt as a republic of NGOs.

INTERVIEW BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | APRIL 2, 2010

The Top Chef for India's Real Housewives

The man behind India's proposed new 24-hour food channel isn't quite the Westernized culinary rebel some might think. 

BY MIRANDA KENNEDY | MARCH 29, 2010

How Locavores Could Save the World

The latest yuppie craze could do more than just cut emissions -- it might also help feed the poor.

BY FELIX SALMON | FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Peak Tuna

The familiar image of Japanese businessmen lunching on nigiri sushi may soon be a thing of the past.

BY DANE KLINGER, KIMIKO NARITA | FEBRUARY 12, 2010

How Microfinance Changes the Lives of Millions

One person at a time.

BY SHWETA S. BANERJEE | OCTOBER 26, 2009

Hot Potato

The little tuber that gave us modernity. 

BY JOSHUA KEATING | NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2009

Plague: A New Thriller of the Coming Pandemic

The best-selling author of Outbreak has an exclusive tale for FP about a catastrophe of global proportions. And by the way, it's not fiction.

BY ROBIN COOK | NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2009

Let Them Eat Plumpy'Nut

Does the food aid that goes to humanitarian crisis sites hurt more than it nourishes? And is the answer a peanut-flavored paste?

BY JIM MOTAVALLI | OCTOBER 8, 2009

Europe's Lactose Intolerance

Dairy farmers in Europe are having a cow over low milk prices and have taken themselves -- and their bovines -- to the streets.

BY BOBBY PIERCE, JORDANA TIMERMAN | OCTOBER 6, 2009

Think Again: A Marshall Plan for Africa

America brought Europe back to life a half-century ago. Why not give Africa the same chance?

BY GLENN HUBBARD | AUGUST 13, 2009