Fifty years ago, President Eisenhower signed the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 into law as US Public Law 480. This article addresses how food aid can become a more effective tool for reducing poverty and hunger and reducing costs without sacrificing any benefits to US...

Public health within the United States is becoming a concern not only from the perspective of rapidly expanding health care costs but also in terms of economic productivity. Obesity and other diet-related diseases are said to becoming epidemic. At the same time, in both rural and poorer urban...

Wage, price, and monetary policies during the Gorbachev years have been most responsible for the food crisis in the republics of the former USSR, not problems in agricultural production. These non-agricultural policies distorted demand, weakened the distribution system, and created inflationary...

The world's population in the last half of the 21 st century will be huge, likely double the current 5.5 billion, entailing a tremendous increase in food needs. However, due to past degradation of resources, unpredictability of technological progress, vicissitudes of climate, and inadequate...