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April 21, 2022

India
Anju Srivastava: How to Revolutionize Farming in India

In India, farmers own high-value land but cannot translate land into wealth. New models of agriculture and ethical entrepreneurship can fix this. 

Anju Srivastava, Founder & Managing Director of Wingreens Farms

March 6, 2023

Energy and Environment
The Push to Conserve 30 Percent of the Planet: What’s at Stake?

See how six countries are faring amid efforts to protect 30 percent of the planet’s land and waters by 2030, and what will be saved if they succeed. 

A monastery sits in between tree-covered mountains.

February 10, 2023

Latin America
Can Amazon Countries Save the Rain Forest?

The Amazon Rainforest plays a critical role in global climate health, but accelerating deforestation continues to raise alarm. How are the region’s governments responding?

A deforested area of the rain forest near the Trans-Amazonian Highway in Brazil.

November 3, 2014

Global
Agriculture and Technology: Improving Farming, Food Security, and Funding

Andras Forgacs of Modern Meadow, Robert Leclerc of AgFunder, and Mark Rosegrant of the International Food Policy Research Institute join Carol C. Adelman, senior fellow and director of the Center for…

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November 3, 2014

Global
Agriculture and Technology: Improving Farming, Food Security, and Funding

Andras Forgacs of Modern Meadow, Robert Leclerc of AgFunder, and Mark Rosegrant of the International Food Policy Research Institute join Carol C. Adelman, senior fellow and director of the Center for…

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February 27, 2023

United States
Raghuram G. Rajan: Inclusive Localism- Communities’ Place in a Globalized World

The answer to disillusionment of those living in ‘left behind’ parts of advanced economies towards globalization lies in reinvesting in local communities and giving people more control over their dai…

U.S. President Joe Biden touts infrastructure spending on the Hudson River Tunnel project in New York City

October 2, 2014

Trade
Maclachlan and Shimizu: Shinzo Abe’s Tug-of-War With the Farm Lobby

Last week, ministerial negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) between Japan and the United States ended abruptly after the two sides failed to reach an agreement on key sticking points, …

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe drives a rice planting machine at a a paddy field in Sendai

February 13, 2023

Public Health Threats and Pandemics
The Global Governance of Emerging Zoonotic Diseases

Zoonotic diseases, naturally transmissible between humans and animals, have posed a growing public health threat for decades. However, existing institutional arrangements have fallen short. The wide-…

Officers spray disinfectant on a cattle farm that has been infected with foot and mouth disease in Indonesia.

February 23, 2023

Social Issues
Social Justice Webinar: Social Safety Nets

Chris Howard, the Harriman professor of government and public policy at the College of William & Mary, and Arohi Pathak, director of policy for inclusive economy at the Center for American Progress, …

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December 15, 2022

Cybersecurity
Digital Agriculture—A Gap in Critical Infrastructure Protection

Despite digital technology's growing importance in the world's food supply, governments have done little to secure digital agriculture or include it under critical infrastructure protections.

A tractor pulling a ripper sits in the middle of the frame, with green fields on the right third of the picture, and an empty field covering the rest.