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Sunday, May 22, 2022
Agriculture leaders say new figures from the International Monetary Fund should underscore the need for heightened awareness of an issue familiar to many who have long been active in the global hunger space.
In this opinion piece, Marshall Matz discusses how world hunger is predicted to take more lives than the COVID-19 pandemic and how a spotlight will be on the upcoming 2021 UN Food Systems Summit.
Erik Fyrwald, CEO of Syngenta Group, discusses in this opinion piece how COVID-19 has brought attention to food security and the best ways to feed the world sustainably.
Christa Lachenmayr has been appointed the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s liaison to the Department of Agriculture and Swen Neufeldt has been named group vice president and president of Hormel Foods International Corp.
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced that National Cancer Institute Director Ned Sharpless will serve as acting Food and Drug Administration Commissioner after Scott Gottlieb leaves the agency next month.
President Donald Trump has picked Indiana agriculture leader Kip Tom to be the U.S. representative in Rome to the U.N. World Food Program and the Food and Agriculture Organization.
The 2018 Senate Agriculture Appropriations Report notes that global food production will have to increase by 60 percent to meet the needs of 9 billion people forecast for 2050.
Consider this modern paradox: At a time when 20 million people around the world face starvation, roughly one-third of all food grown for human consumption is lost or wasted.
