For development practitioners and nonprofit organizations looking to work in the burgeoning arena of food security, the private sector opens an alternative – and often quicker – avenue to success. Public donors increasingly are counting on the business community to help meet the first Millennium Development Goal of halving hunger by 2015.
Ahead of the World Summit on Food Security last November in Italy, the United Nations convened a forum to kindle cooperation with major companies involved in the global food chain.
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