How can we reduce global food insecurity? | Inside Story
Hunger around the world has reached alarming levels.
That’s according to a new multi-agency report on global food insecurity.
For the fifth year, acute food insecurity has increased, impacting hundreds of millions of people.
And it’s posing a major challenge to the United Nations goal of ending hunger by 2030.
The spreading conflict, rather than climate change, is the biggest cause.
Has enough been done to address the crisis?
Presenter: Mohammed Jamjoom
Guests:
Alex de Waal — Author of ‘Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine’ and Executive Director of World Peace Foundation at Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts
Mamadou Goita — Member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems, a global think tank that provides policy recommendations and advocates for sustainable and equitable food systems worldwide
Jemilah Mahmood — Executive Director of the Sunway Centre for Planetary Health at Sunway University. She has worked at the interface of public health, climate change and humanitarianism with the International Red Cross and the UN
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