Listen "Feeding Seven Billion: Ertharin Cousin, Former Director of the World Food Programme"
Episode Synopsis
Sustainable food systems may be the single most essential ingredient of human wellbeing. In this podcast, World Class producer Nicole Feldman interviews Ertharin Cousin, formerly the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and director of the World Food Programme, who is now the Payne Distinguished Lecturer at FSI's Center for Food Security and the Environment. Cousin discusses threats to food security at every stage of production, from bare ingredients to consumption, and delves into the key challenges that the world faces in securing nutritious food for this generation and the next. She delves particularly into the unique harms posed by ongoing security threats like the presence of ISIS and an increasingly mercurial climate, and outlines possible steps forward to create and stabilize sustainable food systems worldwide.
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