The Initiative on Global Food Security is a global effort to address critical gaps in current approaches to food security with an emphasis on cross-sectoral dialogue to elaborate and implement breakthrough ideas.
In the second of two conversations centered on food (check out our talk from earlier the same day on the role of low-wage food service workers in our economy), former Agriculture Secretary and current Executive Director of the Aspen Institute Congressional Program Dan Glickman moderates a discussion on "The Future of Food."
A discussion of the landmark book by His Royal Highness Prince Charles, the Prince of WalesFeeding the planet sustainably is one of the world’s most pressing challenges. In his keynote speech at the Future of Food conference, HRH Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales, sounded the alarm for an earth on the brink of agricultural disaster. The Prince’s Speech: On the Future of Food is a special commemorative edition of Prince Charles’s speech that has been enhanced with an all-new foreword by...
The TransFarm Africa Initiative believes that Africa’s agricultural development requires a new way of thinking about trade and development policy that does not rigidly separate development and trade and supports efforts to develop Africa’s regional markets.
Although many barriers lie within developing country law or practice, the problems originating at the country level are often buttr
November 2011
Case Study: Improving Livelihoods, Removing Barriers: Investing for Impact in Mtanga FarmsGlobal Impact Investing Network (GIIN), November 28, 2011
September 2
Aspen Global Health and Development Program Executive Director Peggy Clark talks about the an upcoming conversation on the politics and policies of feeding a world of seven billion featuring Congressman Dan Glickman, Executive Director of the Congressional Program at the Aspen Institute and Nafis Sadik, MD, UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS. Congressman Glickman is the former U.S.
In recent decades, private sector growth has been the engine that allowed hundreds of millions of people to lift themselves out of poverty in China and India. This growth largely bypassed rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa, which
Most of the developing world will not reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), particularly in health, hunger and poverty reduction, and gaping inequities in health and income remain between the developed and developing world.
