Written by Brendan Rice, Student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Originally posted at the Universities Fighting Global Hunger Blog. The Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ annual symposium, Advancing Food and Nutrition Security at the 2012 G8 Summit, brought together G8 and African leaders, international organizations, businesses, and civil society to emphasize the importance of […]
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New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition
Gayle Smith is Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director at the National Security Council and Dr. Rajiv Shah is USAID Administrator. This item was originally posted on the White House Blog. This weekend, the leaders of the world’s largest economies and four African heads of state will come together at the 2012 G8 Summit at […]
Helping Women Feed the World
Close to a billion people worldwide go to bed hungry every night, and at least six out of ten are women. It’s ironic, because women in developing countries are largely responsible for feeding their children and growing the food that will feed their families. Around the world, the traditional image of a farmer is not […]
Achieving Global Food Security
Gebisa Ejeta, 2009 World Food Prize laureate and director of the Purdue University Center for Global Food Security All of us share a stake in the search for practical and sustainable solutions to reduce poverty and the misery and inhumanity of world hunger. Global food security is a crippling, global problem. Nearly 1 billion of […]
Talking G8, Hunger and Food Security with ONE
This week USAID Deputy Administrator Donald Steinberg took a moment to speak with ONE about the upcoming G8 summit, hunger, and food security. Their conversation was just posted on the ONE Blog. ONE: Hunger is a global issue — how is a focus on growth in the agricultural sector so central to poverty reduction, and […]
Spotlight on Food Security: The Key to Economic, Environmental, and Global Stability
You may have noticed a lot of increased talk about “food security” lately, particularly in the international development realm. There’s good reason for that. A family experiences food security when it lives without hunger or even fear of hunger. In essence, it means that people have enough food to live happy, healthy lives. It’s a right I’m […]
