#FeedingDev articles:
• Global food security: Why it affects us all
• 5 ways to tackle climate change and advance food security
• Feeding the world, saving the planet
Climate change, urbanization, population growth, under-nutrition — all of these threaten to outpace our capacity to feed the world unless the global community reimagines what is possible through partnership between the public and private sectors, through approaches that integrate food security and nutrition, and through funding commitments that reflect the scale of the challenges we face.
Those changes are starting to happen, according to Kimberly Flowers, director of communications for Fintrac.
The past five years have seen a “massive shift” in attention towards food security, and the challenge now is to build on and sustain that attention, said Flowers, who stopped by the Devex office in Washington to preview Feeding Development, an online conversation that reimagines solutions for a more food-secure future.
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Feeding Development is an online conversation hosted by Devex in partnership with ACDI/VOCA, Chemonics, Fintrac, GAIN, Nestlé and Tetra Tech to reimagine solutions for a food-secure future from seed and soil to a healthy meal.
About the author
Michael Igoe@AlterIgoe
Michael Igoe is a Senior Reporter with Devex, based in Washington, D.C. He covers U.S. foreign aid, global health, climate change, and development finance. Prior to joining Devex, Michael researched water management and climate change adaptation in post-Soviet Central Asia, where he also wrote for EurasiaNet. Michael earned his bachelor's degree from Bowdoin College, where he majored in Russian, and his master’s degree from the University of Montana, where he studied international conservation and development.
