food security

To Build Healthy Communities, Listen to Those on the Frontlines

These public health practitioners are serving the groups hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic.

Housing volunteer with woman

Driving New Ideas to Action to Address Social Determinants of Health: The 2019 Aspen Ideas Incubator

The Aspen Global Innovators Group is committed to stimulating conversations around social determinants of health by building an action-oriented ideas lab for decision-makers to work together on complex ideas.

When Food Is Medicine

A 2019 New Voices Fellow on the experiences that made her want to help vulnerable patients in public hospitals.

An assortment of food laid out on a table.

Honoring the Harvest

The Energy and Environment program is looking to create conversations and partnerships across food systems, starting with the inaugural Honor the Harvest Forum.

Trade and Food Security Are Linked — and Both Are In Danger

It’s inarguable that the climate is changing, and adaptation is critical.

We Need to Reframe Economic Inequality

Peter Georgescu wants to tackle economic inequality by thinking past surface income disparity.

The Next UN Secretary General: An Experienced Woman to Foster Global Food Security

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.