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Fighting food waste and empowering women farmers
World Bank & IMF Meetings

Fighting food waste and empowering women farmers

As the world faces rising food demand, social entrepreneur Nidhi Pant is tackling the challenge of food waste while empowering women farmers. Speaking with GZERO Media’s Tony Maciulis on the sidelines of the 2025 World Bank–IMF Annual Meetings, Pant explains how her organization, Science for Society Technologies (S4S), is helping smallholder farmers process and preserve their produce reducing massive post-harvest losses.

​Nigerian Army soldiers on patrol after a deadly gunmen attack in Yelwata, Benue State, Nigeria, on June 16, 2025.
Analysis

What’s behind a surge of violence in Africa’s most populous country?

Violence in Nigeria reportedly decreased significantly in 2024, but the numbers have rocketed back up again.

Feral pigs, like these shown in Florida, are alarmingly growing in number in Canada.
GZERO North

‘Super pigs’ threaten Upper Midwest

America faces an invasion unlike any other – and it’s a “super pig” issue.

​Farmers stage a Delhi Chalo march over various demands, at the Punjab-Haryana Shambhu border, near Ambala on Tuesday.
What We're Watching

Could farming protests hurt Modi at the polls?

Thousands of farmers are marching toward New Delhi to demand better prices for their crops, but police are trying to keep them out of the capital by barricading access to the city, firing tear gas, and making arrests.

Everything’s political: sofa, tomato, shoe
Latin America & Caribbean

Everything’s political: sofa, tomato, shoe

From time to time in this column, I want to take a look around the world closer at hand, spotting the big political stories in the small objects around us. Today we’re gonna do three quickies: a sofa, a tomato, and a shoe. Let's go

German farmers protest against the cut of vehicle tax subsidies of the so-called German Ampel coalition government in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany January 8, 2024.
What We're Watching

Farmers sow chaos across Germany

German farmers angry about fuel subsidy cuts have launched a weeklong nationwide protest, putting Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s fragile center-left coalition in a bind.

Ivorian farm workers slits cocoa pods to extract the beans in a cocoa plantation of the N'Doucy cooperative near the village of Sokorogbo.
What We're Watching

Local farmers in Africa brace for new EU deforestation law

Coffee importers are starting to scale back purchases from Africa in response to the impending European Union Deforestation Regulation aims to combat climate change by banning the sale of goods linked to deforestation.

COP28: Why farmers need to be front and center in climate talks
Climate

COP28: Why farmers need to be front and center in climate talks

Agriculture is the foundation of human civilization, the economic activity that makes every other endeavor possible. But historically, says International Fertilizer Association Director General Alzbeta Klein — at a GZERO Live event organized by Sustainability Leaders Council, a partnership between Eurasia Group, GZERO Media, and Suntory — the subject hasn't received attention in climate talks.

U.S. Senator John Fetterman (D-PA), chair of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Subcommittee chairs a hearing to examine SNAP and other nutrition assistance in the Farm Bill
News

The farm bill: A deadline Congress can’t blow

While everyone is freaking out about the looming US government shutdown, Congress is about to miss another major deadline: renewing the farm bill. Without it the American food system implodes.