Sally Yozell
Senior Fellow and Director
Legacy Program: Food Security
Podcast with Johanna Mendelson Forman on food and conflict
How does food both create conflict and provide a foundation for cultural integration and inclusion? American University professor and Stimson Center Distinguished Fellow Johanna Mendelson Forman and Foodhini founder Noobtsaa Philip Vang join hosts Debbie and Billy Shore to discuss gastrodiplomacy in the US and abroad. Stimson is part of a Consortium of organizations with …
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What’s in the News on Environmental Security?
Featured News Food Crisis Threat Lingers Post-Cyclone Idai It has been six weeks since the landfall of Cyclone Idai in Southeastern Africa and there is increasing concern over the short- and long-term food security of many affected citizens in the region. The storm caused widespread destruction to cropland across Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi, which saw …
STATEMENT: New Biodiversity Report Highlights Climate Change Effects on Global Fisheries
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 7, 2019 Contact: Caiti Goodman, 202.478.3437 (O), 202.361.0254 (C), [email protected] New Biodiversity Report Highlights Climate Change Effects on Global Fisheries Yesterday, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) released a summary of a report on the state of biodiversity in the world, highlighting the threats against life on …
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Johanna Mendelson Forman quoted on the cost and affordability of breakfast around the world
‘Breakfast Club is Cheapest for Swiss, Most Expensive in Africa – by Shelly Hagan, Lee J. Miller and Wei Lu Whether scrambled, sunny-side up or as part of an omelet, eggs are a global breakfast staple. But not all eggs are equal when it comes to cost and affordability. A morning meal has become increasingly …
Cooking up a New Life: How Refugees Use Cooking to Thrive
It is often said that the history of immigration is the history of cuisine. Certainly, in the United States, we would still be eating only oysters and beef scrap pies had our country not opened its doors to the millions of Europeans fleeing famine, pogroms, and economic hardships over the last 150 years. America owes …
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Winning the Peace: The Link Between Food Insecurity and Global Instability
RSVP HERE We have long understood that war and conflict produce poverty and hunger. Yet today, with the number of hungry people on the rise for the first time a decade, record levels of human displacement and an explosion of man-made crises, we are learning that hunger is not simply a byproduct of war, but …
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In Defense of Food Security Roundtable Reports
On the eve of the first anniversary the Global Food Security Act (GFSA) of 2016, the Schar School of Public Policy and George Mason University and the Stimson Center convened a group of over fifty experts representing the U.S. Department of State (DOS), the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. Department of Defense …
Johanna Mendelson Forman Op-Ed on Gastro-Diplomacy
Two years ago, the world came close to ending the hamburger wars. Burger King, of Whopper fame, offered a truce to rival McDonalds’ Big Mac by suggesting that the fast food giants create a McWhopper to celebrate and raise funds for the International Day of Peace, September 21. A clever ad campaign showed a pop-up restaurant to …
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Stimson’s “Climate, Conflict, & Refugees” event cited in New Security Beat
“There’s a long list of crises that can have a natural resource base,” said Anne C. Richard, former assistant secretary of state for population, refugees, and migration, at a Stimson Center panel on June 13, 2017, on the impacts of climate change on human security and mobility. The panelists included Kelly McFarland of Georgetown’s Institute for the Study …
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4 takeaways from ‘Recurring Storms: Food Insecurity, Political Instability and Conflict’
By Jennifer Ehidiamen From threats of famine in Somalia caused by drought, to hunger in Syria caused by war, the development community is increasingly faced with the enormous challenge of addressing global food insecurity and political instability around the world, especially in fragile states. A new report, “Recurring Storms: Food Insecurity, Political Instability, and Conflict,” launched at Center for Strategic and …
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Making Food Security a National Security Priority
Editor’s note: This analysis is part of Presidential Inbox 2017 — an ongoing Stimson Center series examining the major global challenges and opportunities the Trump administration faces during its first 100 days in office. Click here to read the full series. By Johanna Mendelson Forman with Lovely Umayam THE CHALLENGE: In a time of highly …
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Johanna Mendelson Forman quoted in Quartz on the death of the creator of General Tso’s chicken
Peng Chang-kuei (彭長貴), who created General Tso’s Chicken, one of the US’s most famous mystery dishes, died in Taipei this week (Nov. 30) following a bout of pneumonia at the age of 98, according to Taiwanese media reports. -snip- “I think what’s interesting is that it helped contribute to US citizens thinking positively about the cuisines …
Food Disrupters and the Future of Food
Watch the event video below or click here. The food industry is being revolutionized by entrepreneurs using food technology in innovative ways to address some of the most pressing threats to our modern society. Unprecedented integration of communities that traditionally stovepiped development, policy-making, scientific, and venture capitalists has led to an era of food disruption. …
Foreign Policy in the Kitchen
We are witnessing a revolution in food. New technologies will change the way the world eats, expand access to food, and improve the quality of what is produced. But we are also living at a time when dramatic advances in the reduction of global poverty and hunger are being challenged by ongoing conflicts, climate change, …
Brian Eyler quoted in Science Magazine on droughts in the Mekong
The worst drought ever recorded in Vietnam is stoking fears of a food security crisis. In a meeting with government officials next week, researchers with the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)’s Asia regional office in Hanoi will unveil maps showing how water scarcity and climate change may imperil key crops—rice, cassava, maize, coffee, and …
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Kitchen as the New Venue of Foreign Policy
Conflict Cuisine examines the nexus of food and war. Included in this study is the practice of culinary diplomacy and gastrodiplomacy by governments and citizens of countries that have experienced war or conflict. In diplomatic terms, Conflict Cuisine and the use of food to persuade and educate is a form of soft power. There are …
Good Governance Is the Only Real Way to Provide Food Security
Expo Milan, a World’s Fair whose central theme was feeding the planet, officially closed its doors on Oct. 31, after six months that saw 20 million visitors pass through this once swampy area on the outskirts of the city’s industrial center. For Italy, the expo was a huge financial gamble that seems to have paid …
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Johanna Mendelson-Forman quoted in Eater on Conflict Cafes
In an underground skate park housed beneath London’s Waterloo station, there lies a pop-up restaurant. It’s not a literal underground supper club or temporary home to a rogue chef in need of kitchen space. This is Conflict Café, a month-long pop-up restaurant that uses food as a vehicle for dialogue on conflict and peacebuilding. Organized …
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Climate Change and the Food-Water-Energy Nexus
The rivers that flow from the Himalayas—including the Mekong, Indus, Brahmaputra, Yellow, and Yangtze— play critical roles in meeting the energy, water, and food security needs of hundreds of millions of people across Asia. These countries depend on these shared water resources for future growth and prosperity— but the long-term viability of current plans for …
Should Food Security be a National Security Issue?
By Johanna Mendelson Forman and Levi Maxey: Food security as a policy issue has evolved to reflect the dynamism of global events. The increasing attention paid to food’s impact on poverty, humanitarian crises, conflicts and climate change all suggest that food security is a national security concern. Since the term was first used at the …
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Dams and Food Security in the Mekong: Visiting the Don Sahong Dam
This is the second in a two-part series of Spotlights documenting Stimson Research Associate Courtney Weatherby’s travel to the Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia. Weatherby along with Richard Cronin, Director of the Southeast Asia program, were given rare access to dams being built in Laos and examine their potential impact on food security in …
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Dams and Food Security in the Mekong: Site Visits to the Xayaburi and Don Sahong Dam Projects
This is the first in a two-part series of Spotlights documenting Stimson Research Associate Courtney Weatherby’s travel to Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia. Weatherby along with Richard Cronin, Director of the Southeast Asia program, were given rare access to dams being built in Laos to examine their potential impact on food security in the …
The Global Food Crisis in the Middle East
In the wake of the global food crisis of 2008, Middle Eastern oil producers announced multi-billion investments to secure food supplies from abroad. Often called land grabs, such investments are at the heart of the global food security challenge and put the Middle East in the spotlight of simultaneous global crises in the fields of …
Food Fight
Budget discipline notwithstanding, elected officials have strong incentives to support wasteful or unnecessary spending as long as it takes place in their states and districts. Beneficiaries out in the private sector thrive off the proceeds. And federal agencies fiercely defend the turf around their programs. This phenomenon gives birth to the kind of casual budgetary …
Global Food Fight
By Nancy Langer and Richard Marks – Jean Ziegler, the United Nations special rapporteur for the right to food, recently raised blood pressures by dubbing biofuels “a crime against humanity”. Criminal or not, the comment underscored a UN and World Bank commissioned report unveiled this month noting land diverted from agricultural use to bio-fuel production …
An op-ed by Gordon Adams on reform of the U.S. food aid program is featured in Foreign Policy
Why is the agricultural lobby so mad at Obama? We can spend a lot of time (and I do) on the politics of the defense budget and the Iron Triangle that binds the Pentagon, the defense industry, and key members of Congress, making reform in the defense world difficult to execute. But there are a …
The Fisheries-Food Security Nexus
In July 2012 the National Intelligence Council asked the Stimson Center to examine the role of fisheries in ensuring the food supply and food security of the littoral countries of the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea and resulting implications for US security interests. The Stimson Center produced a report analyzing the current status …
Climate Change and Famine in Somalia
By Halae Fuller – The United Nations declared a famine in the Bakool and Lower Shabelle regions of southern Somalia on July 20, thrusting a humanitarian crisis that has been deteriorating for months into the spotlight. There are many causes exacerbating the impact of this famine: endemic poverty, decades of violence, the lack of a …
David Michel quoted in Foreign Policy magazine about global food security
David Michel is quoted on global food security in “The Food Issue,” a special edition of Foreign Policy magazine. Click here to read.
Funding Food Security – A Financial Lens on the L’Aquila G8
By Eric Lief – Among billed centerpieces of this year’s G8 summit, world hunger is hardly a new topic for international political and policy focus. There has been an evolving consensus on substance and policy, and structural and programmatic impediments to progress have been widely documented.[1] What is new is the reality of a steady …
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