Pressure mounts on the Iran war ceasefire; Taiwan and China face off at a disputed atoll in the South China Sea; a supercharged El Niño threatens to compound an already dire food security outlook; and the House GOP defies President Trump on the Ukraine war.

The Iran war is resurrecting old initiatives for bolder cooperation on energy and food security within ASEAN, but with them comes the now familiar friction between geopolitical alignment and collective decision-making.

Tracking the most vulnerable and food-insecure regions in the year ahead.

COVID-19 disrupted planting seasons around the world, and global food prices are starting to reflect it.

How is it that our advanced system of global trade and food production can still produce food shortages?

COVID-19 has disrupted food supply chains around the planet, with potentially destabilizing political consequences in the near-term.