The true cost of food is far higher than what you spend at the checkout counter

A new UN report finds that the true global cost of producing food is $12.7 trillion more than consumers pay at the checkout counter. We pay those uncounted costs in other ways.

Kathleen Merrigan, Executive Director, Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems, Arizona State University • conversation
Feb. 28, 2024 ~10 min

Israeli siege has placed Gazans at risk of starvation − prewar policies made them vulnerable in the first place

Arable land has been destroyed, as have food production sites. But even before the current operation in Gaza, Palestinians there suffered high rates of food insecurity.

Yara M. Asi, Assistant Professor of Global Health Management and Informatics, University of Central Florida • conversation
Feb. 15, 2024 ~10 min


Do you eat with your eyes, your gut or your brain? A neuroscientist explains how to listen to your hunger during the holidays

You likely know that the sight and smell of food can trigger cravings. But internal cues from your gut and your brain play just as important a role in the decisions you make around food.

Alex Johnson, Associate Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, Michigan State University • conversation
Dec. 20, 2023 ~8 min

The Green Revolution is a warning, not a blueprint for feeding a hungry planet

Did the Green Revolution, which brought high-tech agriculture to developing nations in the 1960s, prevent famine? Recent research takes a much more skeptical view.

Glenn Davis Stone, Research Professor of Environmental Science, Sweet Briar College • conversation
Oct. 4, 2023 ~10 min

Malnutrition interventions need to begin earlier

Interventions to combat malnutrition should begin much earlier to include children under 6 months old and pregnant mothers, researchers say.

UC Berkeley • futurity
Sept. 19, 2023 ~8 min

Why Russia pulled out of its grain deal with Ukraine – and what that means for the global food system

Russia’s move, which it followed by bombing the key port city of Odesa and threatening to attack any ship sailing for Ukraine, sent global food prices skyrocketing.

Anna Nagurney, Professor and Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies, UMass Amherst • conversation
July 19, 2023 ~7 min

More US families face chronic food insecurity than 20 years ago

Food insecurity in the US "is something that families are experiencing over and over again in a persistent way."

Morgan Sherburne-Michigan • futurity
May 10, 2023 ~6 min

These four challenges will shape the next farm bill – and how the US eats

Even if you don’t live near farm country, you’ve got a stake in the upcoming farm bill – including what kind of farms your tax dollars support.

Kathleen Merrigan, Executive Director, Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems, Arizona State University • conversation
May 8, 2023 ~10 min


Installing solar-powered refrigerators in developing countries is an effective way to reduce hunger and slow climate change

Many developing nations have little cold storage and lose much of their perishable food before it gets to markets. Climate-friendly refrigeration can provide huge environmental and social benefits.

Abay Yimere, Postdoctoral Scholar in International Environment and Resource Policy, Tufts University • conversation
Jan. 19, 2023 ~9 min

About one-third of the food Americans buy is wasted, hurting the climate and consumers' wallets

Reducing food waste at home is an action that anyone can take to help slow climate change, often saving money in the process. More consumer education could help show people what to do.

Brian E. Roe, Professor of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, The Ohio State University • conversation
Dec. 12, 2022 ~9 min

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