Food Security

World leaders will meet this month at the United Nations to address global sustainability issues, including world hunger. Solving this problem will take more than increasing food quality and improving logistics: It will take ensuring female equality.

A few years ago, Dan Piraro drew a thought-provoking cartoon showing a physician talking to his patient, Planet Earth. “You’ve got advanced stage humans,” he says.

To make agriculture work for everyone — from corporations to nonprofits to individual smallholder farmers — governments are key. Here are five powerful steps governments in Africa can take to foster innovation and growth in the agriculture sector.

Food security is as much a moral and political issue as it is one defined by markets and international agreements. We have an obligation to close the gaps in the global food system not only for economic growth and political stability but also because it is the right thing to do.

As America struggles under the weight of our ongoing debates about race and justice, officially observing the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery could send an important message about a way forward.

This was originally posted on the Huffington Post Tom Friedman is no stranger to the connection between political stability and the price o

Dan Glickman is the executive director of the Aspen Institute Congressional Program, a nongovernmental, nonpartisan educational program for

As Congress and the president try to find a solution to the issues surrounding the so-called "fiscal cliff," many observers are left wonderi

In June of this year 46.7 million Americans—about one in seven—received benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program—SN