USAID veteran David Bathrick leaves a profound legacy after his death at 84. His tireless advocacy created global networks and inspired countless development professionals working to end rural poverty.
CropLife International’s Laurie Goodwin joins Devex Executive Editor Kate Warren for a special edition podcast about how innovation and open trade can work together to build climate-resilient food systems.
As climate change drives a devastating plant disease into new regions, a new potato variety developed in Peru gives farmers an option that reduces losses and cuts costs.
Everything we’re watching in Belém. Plus, how WFP is using AI, and the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty shifts into execution mode.
One year after its launch, the Brazil-backed initiative is beginning to show its results — even amid bureaucratic bottlenecks and financing gaps.
In Belém, leaders face a test: can the world protect forests, feed people and fund climate action at the same time — and prove it with concrete commitments?
A USAID-backed moringa project in Uganda offered rural farmers modest payments and a rare path toward stability. Then the funding stopped for good.
Two top WFP officials have been expelled from Sudan as the country faces an extreme hunger crisis and reports of mass killings. Plus, Howard Buffett talks Ukraine at the Paris Peace Forum.
Smallholder producers rush to map their land to keep selling to Europe under new deforestation rules coming into force this year. Plus, our failing climate report card.
Opinion: Potash is a fertilizer that plays a strategic role in global food security, and its importance is increasingly being recognized.
Mott MacDonald, a leading U.K. aid contractor, is closing its international development division, which will involve stopping all new bids, phasing out existing projects, and terminating staff. Plus, a grim report on international climate goals.
The lowdown from Day 1 of the World Food Prize Foundation Borlaug Dialogue, and a call for doubling food aid.
Along with celebrity chef-turned-humanitarian food aid champion, nearly 30 World Food Prize winners signed a statement released today.
IFC’s Anup Jagwani and Somalia’s Abdihakim Ainte made the case for a more business-driven approach to agriculture — one that leans on technology, private finance, and stronger rural markets.
Inside the World Bank’s big bet to turn agriculture into a jobs and growth engine; the humanitarian toll of shrinking food aid budgets; and a blueprint for rebuilding Gaza.
With food aid slashed globally, agencies warn that millions are being pushed to the brink — and that years of progress toward a more efficient delivery system could be undone.
Takeaways from the Stockholm Food Forum 2025; how to combat misinformation in science; and the business case for investing in nutrition.