Ertharin Cousin

Ertharin Cousin

Ertharin Cousin currently serves as the CEO and managing director of Food Systems for the Future, and is a distinguished fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. She is a Bosch Academy Robert Weizsäcker fellow and a visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Center on Food Security and Environment. Previously, Cousin led the World Food Programme and served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations agencies for food and agriculture in Rome.

Latest Articles

Opinion: Reducing food methane pollution without compromising nutrition

Opinion: Reducing food methane pollution without compromising nutrition

over 1 year ago // Food systems

Uniting across a diversity of solutions is critical to methane emission reduction in global food systems without compromising access to nutritious foods.

Opinion: Food systems harm people and planet. Here is how we fix that

Opinion: Food systems harm people and planet. Here is how we fix that

over 2 years ago // Food systems

How do we start fixing the global food system? First, we must advance an agenda that acknowledges there is no one-size-fits-all solution.

Hunger: A solvable problem

Hunger: A solvable problem

over 12 years ago // Contributor: Ertharin Cousin

Hunger is the world’s greatest solvable problem, according to WFP Executive Director Ertharin Cousin, who explains in this opinion how pilot projects like Purchase for Progress are helping smallholder farmers address post-harvest loss, thus preventing food that could nourish the hungry from being lost early in the food chain.

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