"We need a once-in-a-generation investment in public agricultural R&D," at least $100 billion over 10 years, writes Cary Fowler.

The Green Revolution of the 1950s and 1960s dramatically increased yields and secured the global food supply for a rapidly ...

Sustainable agricultural development is an integrated approach that seeks to balance the imperatives of food production, environmental conservation and socio‐economic advancement. It aims to enhance ...

In fiscal year 2024, climate finance amounted to 62 percent of total lending in the agriculture and food sector, in the World Bank. World Bank food- and agriculture-oriented projects approved between ...

USDA Rural Development has served as a conduit for getting federal funds into “some of our smallest communities and rural small businesses,” said Erin Oban, state director for USDA Rural Development.

A historic international training program at Jiangsu University educated 131 agricultural specialists from 39 developing countries between 1980 and 1994. Education and agricultural technology can ...

Reconciling the tasks of producing adequate amounts of nutritious food for the increasing global population while preserving the environment and natural ecosystems simultaneously is an enormous ...

One year after Philadelphia released its first plan for support urban gardening and farming, city officials emphasized the importance of urban agriculture and called for new investments during a City ...

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Cary Fowler is president of the Food Security Leadership Council, former U.S. Special Envoy for Global Food Security, 2024 World Food Prize laureate, and father of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.