Food/Agriculture

Think Again: Africa's Crisis

As U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heads to Africa, the continent is in far better shape than most experts think.

BY CHARLES KENNY | JULY 31, 2009

A Sea Change in Food Aid?

World leaders are promising radical changes for food aid to the poorest countries. But can they deliver?

BY SIMON NICHOLSON | JULY 23, 2009

Aiding the Future

Does U.S. foreign assistance really work?

BY MICHAEL WILKERSON | JULY 20, 2009

Epiphanies: Amartya Sen

The Nobel Prize-winning economist reflects on misguided policies, social disasters -- and whether he had it too easy.

APRIL 15, 2009

Prime Numbers: Sushinomics

FP examines the global economic impact of sushi.

BY DANIEL PAULY | MARCH 1, 2009

Power to the People

Why it's the poor -- not the experts -- who can best solve the food crisis.

OCTOBER 15, 2008

The Poppy Trade

AUGUST 12, 2008

The Global Food Fight

There are many culprits we can blame for higher food prices. But the poor isn't one of them.

BY MOISÉS NAÍM | JUNE 16, 2008

Flower Power

Picking up a bouquet of flowers isn't what it used to be. Biotech breakthroughs, aggressive new competitors, and eager customers who expect their blooms to be fresh and fragrant are radically reshaping the global flower market. The roses, tulips, and lilies that end up on your kitchen table are merely the end products of a long, global supply chain that increasingly relies on everything from the traffic in Amsterdam to the weather in Bogotá.

BY AMY STEWART | JUNE 11, 2007

Meet Your Meat

JUNE 11, 2007

Vintage Asia

BY JIM CLARKE | DECEMBER 27, 2006

Rules of Imbibement

BY JIM CLARKE | JANUARY 4, 2006

Crying Sheep

NOVEMBER 9, 2005

Diaper Development

MAY 1, 2004

Blame It on the Rain

JANUARY 1, 2004

Think Again: International Trade

Why have disagreements between rich and poor nations stalled the global trading system? Because vapid debates over "fair trade" obscure some inconvenient facts: First, notwithstanding their demands for equity, poor countries are more protectionist than advanced economies. Second, if rich nations cut their self-defeating agricultural subsidies, their own publics would benefit, but consumers in many poor countries would not. Finally, despite criticisms to the contrary, the WTO can help promote economic development in low-income countries -- but only if rich nations let the global body do its job.

BY ARVIND PANAGARIYA | NOVEMBER 1, 2003

Wine's New World

When new liquor laws allowed British supermarkets to sell wine in the 1970s, Australian winemakers seized the business opportunity of a lifetime. The story of how a trickle of New World wines became a worldwide flood is also a case study in globalization, starring disgruntled French winemakers, desperate EU bureaucrats, worried Napa Valley tycoons, and Chinese and Japanese arrivistes acquiring a taste for the finer things in life.

BY KYM ANDERSON | MAY 1, 2003

What's Eating Latin America?

BY DAVID MEYER | MARCH 1, 2003

Prime Numbers: Plowing Up Subsidies

Farm subsidies: the trade killer.

BY PATRICK A. MESSERLIN | NOVEMBER 1, 2002

Safety First

JANUARY 1, 2001

Tokyo's Pantry

BY THEODORE C. BESTOR | NOVEMBER 1, 2000

Stateless Fish

BY THEODORE C. BESTOR | NOVEMBER 1, 2000

How Sushi Went Global

A 500-pound tuna is caught off the coast of New England or Spain, flown thousands of miles to Tokyo, sold for tens of thousands of dollars to Japanese buyers ... and shipped to chefs in New York and Hong Kong? That's the manic logic of global sushi.

BY THEODORE C. BESTOR | NOVEMBER 1, 2000