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Devex Dish: The rice is right — after some slight modifications
5 days ago // Devex Dish
How Asia is fighting malnutrition by turbocharging fortified rice production. Plus, everything we know about ADB’s food-focused gathering happening next week.
Devex Dish: Winter is here for a post-USAID Afghanistan
19 days ago // Devex Dish
Afghans are “desperate” as aid cuts bring mass hunger crisis in the winter months; why ending food aid to Afghanistan and Yemen threatens U.S. national security; and a look at the latest planned overhaul at the U.S. State Department.
Devex Dish: The food lowdown from the AU Summit
26 days ago // Devex Dish
At the African Union Summit and the Munich Security Conference, food systems leaders make the investment case underlining why food security equals global security. Plus, goodbye to the EAT Foundation.
Devex Dish: A chilling problem for Africa’s food supply
about 2 months ago // Devex Dish
In this edition: How a global cold-chain revolution can boost food security; why progress on food security remains so slow; and tackling the “global water bankruptcy” problem.
Devex Dish: Meet the young African farmers putting the sexy back in agriculture
2 months ago // Devex Dish
In this edition: TikTok videos as agricultural extension services; positive signs in a new U.S. foreign aid budget bill; and why the U.S. is freezing aid to Somalia.
Devex Dish: Ending a year of disruption and hard lessons for food aid
3 months ago // Devex Dish
A look back at our most-read stories and opinion pieces in 2025.
Devex Dish: How AI is guiding India’s farmers through climate change
3 months ago // Devex Dish
Artificial intelligence tools help the farmers plant and harvest healthier crops but experts stress that AI is just one component of a broader climate adaptation strategy, alongside insurance and access to credit. Plus, a look back at the life of Nicholas Haan.
Devex Dish: Dems protest Food for Peace’s impending transfer to USDA
3 months ago
The lawmakers raised concerns over the means by which the transfer is expected to happen — namely, without the approval of Congress and before the completion of a required assessment. Plus, inside the Kenya-U.S. debt-for-food deal.
Devex Dish: Can nations hammer out a deal to preserve crop diversity?
4 months ago // Devex Dish
Countries are gathered in Peru to strengthen global commitments to seeds and plant genetic resource via the Plant Treaty. Plus, FAO’s Máximo Torero Cullen’s takeaway from COP30.
‘Emergency’: Lancet studies sound alarm on rise of ultra-processed foods
4 months ago // Food systems
A trio of studies in the medical journal shows how greater consumption of UPFs poses a major public health threat, with experts calling for a response akin to efforts to challenge the tobacco industry decades ago.