Roger Thurow explains how the Green Revolution helped end hunger in most of the world, but stopped short of Africa.

Learn about the history of the Chicago Board of Trade and how commodities trading works in the U.S. today.

I’m sitting on the roof of my hotel at sunset in Humera, sweating. The temperature is dropping, but it’s still up around 115 Fahrenheit.

After the premiere of The Market Maker, WIDE ANGLE is pleased to invite you to join a live conversation about the film!

Eleni and her staff at the Ethiopia Commodities Exchange (ECX) are struggling to free themselves from the complex and thorny world that is the international coffee industry....

Half a year into the global economic crisis, an economist tells WIDE ANGLE “there have been positive developments in the past ten years that should help African countries weather the storm.”

Click to watch a preview of The Market Maker.

See how buyers and sellers negotiate on the trading floor of Ethiopia's Commodity Exchange.

At 3:30 a.m. this morning, we were shivering on the side of a desolate road near Bure, a provincial town seven hours north of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia...

Credits for The Market Maker.

Find additional web-based resources about Ethiopia and its food supply and trade.

Click to watch a preview of Contestant No. 2.

A roundup of links to local stories of global importance from around the world.

The 2009 update of Birth of a Surgeon captures one woman’s story on the frontlines of improving maternal mortality in Africa.