By 2050 we’ll need to produce and provide food and water for nearly 10 billion people, many of whom will live in some of the world’s poorest, most water short, albeit fastest growing, regions.

There is hope for ensuring the world has enough clean, fresh water in the near future, despite an ever-increasing world population that requires more water and food, a new report from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs says. But the task is enormous.

In the early 1980s, my grandfather, Dr. John Willard, traveled to Kenya on an agriculture mission of hope.

International development efforts designed to drive economic growth through agriculture generate a wide range of benefits for populations in less developed areas of the world.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19, 2017 - Key senators charged that rules for U.S. food aid are driving up shipping costs and robbing hungry children of desperately needed food without benefiting American farmers.