In 1967, a farmer stood in a field in Punjab, India, holding seeds that looked no different from those his father and grandfather had planted. But these seeds (stocky, disease-resistant wheat ...

Every day, Maurice Maxwell, executive director of Family Service of Middletown, sees the faces of poverty. They walk into the food pantry by the hundreds each month, filling their cardboard boxes with ...

Since 1990, the World Bank has reported estimates of the number of people worldwide that live in extreme poverty. This poverty standard is based on how the poorest countries in the world define ...