A significant share of rural households in all regions are headed by women and women are engaged in unpaid family work, meaning rural women on average work much longer hours than men.

There is now a growing understanding of the international, wider context of large land deals. Researchers are also showing how the narratives of 'idle land', 'productive commercial agriculture' and 'backward smallholders' are being used by politicians and others.

Today, some 1 billion people are still undernourished and many countries are far from achieving the first millennium development goal of halving the proportion of people living in hunger and extreme poverty by 2015.

ROME — An African leader whose regime is accused of human rights abuses sent a substitute to Rome to deliver the keynote address Monday at a U.N...

In a significant move, the Supreme Court in India has questioned the very basis of counting the poor in the country. Realising that the poverty line i...

Given the global repercussions of a severe wheat shortage in China, Beijing's aggressive efforts to deal with the crisis should be welcomed by all.

Must history always repeat itself? We are on the verge of what could turn out to be another major food crisis.

The question of precisely how aid should flow to Egypt is surely too complicated for a blog post. But in addressing the structural problems, there are concrete policy prescriptions at our disposal

Fueling protests across the globe have a common factor: rocketing food prices caused by a "perfect storm" of natural disasters, rising oil prices and rapacious speculators.