Agriculture

Bonded laborers, many of whom belong to the Dalit community, are owned by their landlords and work for little or no pay.

Yams mean wealth, power, and the holidays—if you can afford them.

Don’t abandon big agriculture, make it work (even) better.

Actually, big isn’t best.

Like its blatant vaccine nationalism, the administration’s unchecked stimulus policies are hurting the world—especially the global poor.

The United States’ industrialized food system moved millions of people out of poverty and is better for the environment, too.

The country’s rural Dalits are already exploited—and know it can get worse.

Don’t listen to the activists. Millions of Indian farmers will benefit from Modi’s new laws.

Farmers are protesting against more than Modi’s agricultural laws. They’ll keep going until he understands that.

Once teeming lakes are fast disappearing and with them, a lucrative career for tens of thousands of people in the region.

As the ongoing conflict in Yemen shows, it’s time to fight starvation not only on humanitarian grounds but as an essential component of military and foreign policy.

The region is the poster child for insecurities already brought on by global warming.

Global celebrities are helping Indians to fight their government’s crackdown on dissent.

National security experts need to put food back on the table as a core issue.

Agriculture’s importance for the labor market cannot be underestimated—especially amid a historic pandemic.

New agriculture laws are making a desperate situation more dire. 

In the rich, lazy, and happy 1990s, Americans imagined a world that could be just like them.

From suffering U.S. farmers to the pain inflicted on the developing world, everything about U.S. agriculture policy is dysfunctional. The next administration can do better.

The World Food Program will need more than a Nobel Prize to feed the millions who are newly food-insecure.