Food and Agriculture

“Corn ethanol is a done deal…. There’s no stopping it.” Princeton University scholar, Tim Searchinger, on The Grist blog in 2009 In response to this year’s severe drought and surging corn prices, the governors of North Carolina and Arkansas asked the Environmental Protection Agency to wai...

This post is joint with Casey Friedman The Food and Agriculture Organization’s flagship hunger report came out Monday, featuring a new and improved methodology for estimating the number of undernourished people in the world, and it has two big, good surprises, though there are still hundreds of m...