Grain and finance The need to buy and sell wheat created modern commerce Wheat was money, when a store was no more than a store of goods to be exchanged for wheat.
Grain and transport As wheat travelled, it created the modern world Moving wheat from where it grows to where it is eaten shaped the world Continue Reading →
The cost is too damn high The first global survey of the price of healthy eating Three billion people couldn’t afford a healthy diet even if they wanted to. Continue Reading →
Cashews, the World Bank, and Mozambique A misguided policy that did nobody any good Mozambique used to be the world’s largest supplier of cashew nuts. Then along came the World Bank, to help. Continue Reading →
Food safety and industry concentration How the back seat of a car is like a bag of leafy greens How do farmers’ markets and concentrated food industries that depend on long food chains stack up when it comes to food-borne illness? Truth is, nobody really knows. Continue Reading →