Prices of commodities, livestock, and specialized crops are important as they impact the economy, food security, rural communities, and the environment. Monitoring and understanding these prices are essential for governments, businesses, and individuals involved in agriculture and for policymakers and researchers studying the economic stability of global food systems.

In late 2021, a committee appointed by the leadership of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association developed a white paper on the grand challenge to ensure that all people have safe, affordable, accessible, and acceptable food for leading a healthy and active life.

Climate change presents real threats to U.S. agricultural production, forest resources, and rural economies.

Food security is a fundamental human need which the U.S. has long sought to protect, using a variety of programs guided by key metrics that reflect and contribute to international measurements and global actions.

Dollar stores are the fastest-growing food retailers in the contiguous United States and have doubled their share in rural areas in the past decade.

Farmers, foresters, and ranchers are unfortunately familiar with the devastation and loss of life and property accompanying a natural disaster caused by an extreme weather event such as a hurricane, drought, or flooding.

The C-FARE webinar in January focused on global food security, which is a necessary first step towards many other goals of U.S. foreign policy, as well as our humanitarian and environmental objectives

The December C-FARE webinar focuses on the complexities of the inflationary period the U.S. is facing. Matthew MacLachlan, Michael Adjemian, and David Ortega will present an overview of their work on inflation as it relates to agriculture, food, and natural resources.

Food insecurity implies difficulty getting enough food at some time during the year. The causes are multifactorial and often include poverty, unemployment, low income, lack of affordable housing, chronic health conditions or lack of access to healthcare, and systemic racism and racial discrimination.

Agriculture provides food for humans, fiber, and livelihoods for billions of people worldwide and is a critical resource for sustainable development in many regions. Regardless, agriculture also provides many ecosystem services and opportunities for climate change mitigation and removal of greenhouse gases (GHG).

To effectively leverage their assets for long-term, shared prosperity, rural communities need a robust local capacity with solid connections at the regional, state, and federal levels.

To effectively leverage their assets for long-term, shared prosperity, rural communities need a robust local capacity with solid connections at the regional, state, and federal levels.

While rural America is in no way a monolith, many rural communities have in recent years been confronted by challenging economic, demographic, and climatic trends that have limited their ability to achieve durable, inclusive economic prosperity.

Today's event forum will focus on agriculture's social and policy implications and environmental science-based policy. While economists recommend using market incentives, policymakers often use regulation to achieve agricultural and environmental resource management objectives

Agriculture is unique among most sectors in the economy, as agriculture's mitigation potential from both an enhancement of removals of greenhouse gases (GHG) and reduction of emissions through management of land is significant. Agriculture provides food for humans, fiber, livelihoods for billions of people worldwide and is a critical resource for sustainable development in many regions.

In January 2021, President Biden signed an Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad that outlined an ambitious agenda for reducing socioeconomic disparities in exposure to environmental pollution.

Well before COVID-19 struck, industry watchers saw the importance of online grocery shopping, with many pundits predicting slow but steady growth. However, COVID-19 promoted a rather dramatic expansion of online grocery shopping. Supporting this growth was the expansion of the online grocery pilots of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), with nearly 90% of SNAP households now having access to these pilot programs. While the widespread availability and use of online grocery shopping is a benefit to many consumers in terms of convenience and safety, online shopping platforms are curated environments.

To obtain the 2 degrees, and more so the 1.5-degree targets recommended by a recent IPCC report, requires deep decarbonization and significant decrease of anthropogenic emissions.

Every five years, Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) provides Congress with an opportunity to revisit and update the child nutrition and school meal programs that it authorizes. Programs such as summer and afterschool meals, school breakfast and lunch, and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) fall under this umbrella, and their implementation has changed greatly in the last few years in response to COVID-19 as well as technological changes and changing trends in areas as diverse as school food procurement and the spread of tele-health.

Current U.S. federal farm policy focuses on risk management. Projected spending for the Federal Crop Insurance Program exceeds that of all other farm-related programs authorized in the 2018 farm bill.