food security

A Cycle of Vulnerability and Poverty A smallholder farmer in Tanzania Like many others in Northern Tanzania, Lindiwe raises her family on

The International Forum on Food Security Coordination, hosted by the Aspen Institute's Energy and Environment Program in May 2016 in Rome, e

While conflicts in countries like Syria and Ukraine dominate the daily news cycle, and longer-term concerns about climate change and energy security are frequently aired, the problem of hunger and the emergence of new threats to world food supplies receive far less attention than they merit. Without sustained focus at an international level and the commitment of adequate resources to address the problems, there is a real risk that the responses needed to address these issues will come too late to avert the geopolitical instability and widespread human suffering that may result.

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