Food Security

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

The United Nations' new sustainable development goals are ambitious, aiming to end hunger and ensure access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food year-round for people around the world by 2030. But experts say they are feasible. In order to get there, however, the international community is going to have to take coordinated action to have a far-reaching impact.

The report explores current understandings of the relationship among food insecurity, healthcare costs, poverty, relevant health outcomes (including but extending well beyond obesity), and public and private sector opportunities for addressing food insecurity.

Addressing the urgent need for cross-sector alignment on a long-term vision for food security planning.

World leaders will meet this month at the United Nations to address global sustainability issues, including world hunger. Solving this problem will take more than increasing food quality and improving logistics: It will take ensuring female equality.

A few years ago, Dan Piraro drew a thought-provoking cartoon showing a physician talking to his patient, Planet Earth. “You’ve got advanced stage humans,” he says.