Not least thanks to its actively involving all stakeholders, the Committee on World Food Security is praised as a great achievement in the fight against world hunger. Is this justified? Yes, but with downsides, says Marita...[more]

Why do you care about women’s land rights? Isn’t it enough for the household to have land?“ This question is a common refrain Agnes Quisumbing, researcher at the International Food Policy Research Institute, IFPRI, hears from...[more]

“A good incentive for soil conservation”[more]

“Smallholders and the climate could lose out”[more]

The United Nations has declared 2014 the International Year of Family Farming. Rightly so, says Eve Crowley, Principal Advisor for Gender, Equity and Rural Employment at the FAO, for family farmers play a key role in numerous...[more]

A development policy opting exclusively for value chain development and the integration of producers in modern markets overlooks the reality for the majority of smallholders, our author maintains. Policy should pay greater...[more]

“It’s time for the international community to do more to help large and small farmers manage the many-fold risks they are faced with every day”, writes the CEO of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Jin-Yong Cai in a...[more]

What role can agricultural research play in poverty reduction? What are the challenges ahead? An interview with Perez del Castillo, Chair of the CGIAR Consortium Board.[more]

At root, hunger is an issue of distributive justice.[more]

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) just held its last major quadrennial Ministerial conference in Doha in April this year. The conference theme was Development-centred globalisation: Towards inclusive...[more]

The debate on sustainability also has to reassess the issue of ethics and the economy: acting in solidarity versus the accumulation of capital in one hand. As a basic principle of acting in solidarity in economics, the notion of...[more]

The United Nations has declared 2012 the International Year of Cooperatives. Charles Gould, Director-General of the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA), describes the opportunities that this has created.[more]

Every year, all over the world, the International Day of Cooperatives is celebrated on the first Saturday of July. The cooperative movement is extremely powerful. [more]

Meat demand is rising, given a growing world population and larger middle-income subpopulations. However, meat production faces challenges such as expensive inputs and animal and human health issues. [more]

For a long time, speculators only played a minor role on the commodities markets. [more]

Price volatility is increasing on the global agricultural commodity markets. [more]