According to the United Nations, 795 million people are undernourished. This means that one in nine people in the world go hungry. Further, children are most affected by hunger, with inadequate nutrition being responsible for 3.1 million deaths among children under 5 each year.
So what is the global community doing to eradicate hunger and ease the suffering of those living in poverty?
In the past few months alone, world leaders have made two commitments to end hunger in the next 15 years. First, in June, the G7 pledged to eradicate hunger for 500 million people by 2030. Next, the Global Goals, coming out on September 25, 2015, will target the eradication of global hunger for 795 million by 2030.
Now that we have set these fantastic goals, we as a global community must think about how to achieve them in a way that is both ethical and sustainable.
Global Poverty Project and the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs will co-host the ‘Feeding the Planet’ policy forum on Thursday October 15th from 6:00pm to 8:30pm to offer an important first look into solutions for eliminating hunger and how we can coordinate global efforts to achieve these crucial goals in the next 15 years.
We invite global citizens to be a part of the conversation as we explore innovative solutions for fulfilling the moral imperative of feeding the hungry, and the role of the global community in investing in agricultural development to achieve these targets.
You may wonder how the different stakeholders involved in this process, such as academics, intergovernmental entities, and NGOs, will work together. To explore what this multi-sectoral effort will look like, we have invited a panel of experts that represents the diversity within the global agricultural development and food security movement.
Panelists will include: Dr. Jessica Fanzo, Professor at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and Nitze School of Advanced International Studies; Gerald Bourke, Senior Communications Officer at the World Food Programme; and Isha Datar, Executive Director of New Harvest.
Following the panel discussion, we invite global citizens to join us for a reception, where global citizens will have the opportunity to connect, network, and engage with high level policy leaders, panelists, and other young professionals.
Feeding the Planet Panel
When: Thursday October 15th, 2015 from 6:00pm- 8:30pm.
Where: Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, 170 E 64th Street, New York, NY 10065
RSVP at the event page on Carnegie Council’s website, using the promo code “GPP.”