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 […]
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
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 earth and the many species at risk of extinction. Read full Global Assessment. Sally Yozell, Senior Fellow and Director of the Environmental Security Program […]
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 […]
Sally Yozell Quoted on Relationship Between Climate Change and Economic Security
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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 […]
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 […]