After 10 years of promises, protocols, and initiatives, the children of West Africa remain at the mercy of the cocoa industry.

In his new book, Catching Fire, Richard Wrangham, Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University, makes the case that cooking was the definitive evolutionary step that made us humans what we...

What does it take to make people care about climate change? In France and the U.S., very different kinds of arguments.

With the world’s hungry topping one billion, a first lady—and it’s not Michelle—announces a fresh approach to food policy.

Sure, the U.S. provides half of all global food aid. But while that food may be fine for adults, it does nearly nothing to alleviate childhood malnutrition.

It’s an unlikely—and to many, unfathomable—vacation destination. But a new coalition government could put this southern African country back on the map.

The former senator on the spiritual motivation behind his work on hunger issues, and the challenges in store for President Barack Obama.

My two-day field trip with Germany’s BASF Plant Science.

In the kitchen, a sun-splashed fantasy dominated by a Hummer-size Bonnet stove, words like lycopene and antioxidant swirled around us.

Gourmet Deputy Editor Jocelyn Zuckerman spoke with the Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme about the global food crisis.