Recent Opinion Pieces
Clapp, Jennifer and Phil Howard. 2023. “The Hunger Profiteers”, Project Syndicate, August 8.https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/agribusiness-market-concentration-food-insecurity-profiteering-by-jennifer-clapp-and-phil-howard-2023-08?barrier=accesspaylog
Clapp, Jennifer and Olivier de Schutter. 2023. “Poland’s grain glut shows our food system is dysfunctional”, Euractiv https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/opinion/polands-grain-glut-shows-our-food-system-is-dysfunctional/
Policy Responses to the Current Food Crisis Must Support Multiple Dimensions of Food Security”, April 26, 2022. HLPE Blog: https://www.fao.org/cfs/cfs-hlpe/news-archive/detail/en/c/1506439/
“Food Price Spikes are About Much More than Ukraine”, (Op-Ed) Civil Eats, May 16.https://civileats.com/2022/05/16/op-ed-food-price-spikes-are-about-much-more-than-ukraine/
“The War in Ukraine Could Spark a Hurricane of Hunger”, Reuters Trust. 31 March 2022 (coauthored with Hilal Elver). https://news.trust.org/item/20220331100348-mcl51/
“Why Reinvent the Wheel on Food Security and Nutrition?” (coauthored with Martin Cole and Thanawat Tiensen.) 2021., Devex, May 21. https://www.devex.com/news/opinion-why-reinvent-the-wheel-on-food-security-and-nutrition-99929
“Spoiled Milk, Rotten Vegetables and a Very Broken Food System" New York Times, May 8, 2020. Posted online: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/opinion/coronavirus-global-food-supply.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
“Solving our Food Crisis Requires a Fundamental Transformation of the System” – op-ed on IISD website, July 27, 2020: https://www.iisd.org/articles/food-crisis-transform-system
“Food Policies Should Support Small-Scale Producers,” The Hill Times, February 21, 2018. https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2018/02/21/food-policies-support-small-s...
“Will ‘Climate Smart Agriculture’ Serve the Public Interest - or the Drive for Growing Profits for Private Corporations?” (co-authored with Peter Newell and Zoe W. Brent), The Ecologist, January 19, 2018. https://theecologist.org/2018/jan/19/will-climate-smart-agriculture-serv...
“Agriculture Complicates Trump’s Trade Bluster,” The Hill Times, March 29, 2017. https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2017/03/29/agriculture-complicates-trump...
“Agribusiness Mega-Mergers Won’t Help to Feed the World,” The Hill Times, January 18, 2017.https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2017/01/18/agribusiness-mega-mergers-won...
“Too Much at Stake for Canada to Ignore Agribusiness Mega-Mergers,” The Hill Times, July 13, 2016. https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2016/07/13/too-much-at-stake-for-canada-...
“Bigger isn’t Always Better: What the Proposed Agribusiness Mega Mergers Could Mean for Canada,” Food Secure Canada, September 14, 2016. Posted online: http://foodsecurecanada.org/resources-news/news-media/big-6-agribusiness....
“Monsanto, Dow, Syngenta: Rush for Mega-mergers Puts Food Security at Risk,” The Guardian, May 5, 2016. https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/may/05/monsanto-do...
“Individual Diet Changes Can’t Fix the Global Food System,” The Guardian (coauthored with Caitlin Scott), July 11, 2014.https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/food-blog/diet-changes-...
