Carbon Dioxide, Agriculture and the Changing Climate

Increasing carbon dioxide is one of the biggest contributors to climate change, and it directly affects agricultural production.

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Connor Kuerbis

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Introducing our 2021 FAO Summer Storytelling Fellows

Staff fill boxes with food at Pittsburgh area food bank

As the need for food continued to grow during the pandemic, the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank called on the Pennsylvania Army National Guard and opened an additional, temporary food box packing site. Food access, food security, nutrition, and environmental justice challenges are among the topics our fellows will explore in their stories this summer. (Melissa Murray/Creative Commons)

Frank Sesno

Founding Director, Planet Forward

How local farms are important for a community's environmental sustainability

Leo Rosenblum

Ithaca College

13 grocery stores: The Navajo Nation is a food desert

A strip of businesses including chain restaurants like McDonalds in Kayenta, AZ

A strip of businesses including chain restaurants like McDonalds in Kayenta, Arizona, a census-designated place on the Navajo Nation in February 2011. (Martin Pulido/Creative Commons)

Matilda Kreider

George Washington University

CFS46 reflections: Matilda Kreider

Matilda Kreider in the entrance hall to the Committee on World Food Security Conference at FAO headquarters in Rome. (Marisa Umeh/UC-Berkeley)

Matilda Kreider

George Washington University

CFS46 reflections: Marisa Umeh

Marisa Umeh attends a session during the Committee on World Food Security Conference in October 2019 at the UN-FAO in Rome. (Kim Ossi/PlanetForward.org)

Marisa Sinclair Umeh

University of California, Berkeley

CFS46 reflections: Lindsay Eberhart

Lindsay Eberhart listens to panelists during a youth-centered session on Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. (Kim Ossi/PlanetForward.org)

Lindsay Eberhart

Planet Forward Correspondent | SUNY-ESF

CFS46 reflections: Rohan Agrawal

Rohan Agrawal at the Committee on World Food Security Conference in October 2019. (Dan Reed/PlanetForward.org)

Rohan Agrawal

Planet Forward Correspondent | University of Mississippi

Frank Sesno: Impressions from the Committee on World Food Security conference

Frank Sesno

Founding Director, Planet Forward

Urban agriculture in Nairobi: How to feed a growing city

Jake Meyers

Planet Forward Senior Correspondent

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George Washington University

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Hannah Loder

George Washington University

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Harrison R Watson

Princeton University

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Medill News Service

Northwestern University

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