Tackling Famine in the Twenty-First Century

Moderator:

• Rajul Pandya-Lorch, Chief of Staff, Director General's Office, IFPRI (Video)

Speakers:

• David Beasley, Executive Director, U.N. World Food Programme (Video)
• Paul Dorosh, Director, Development Strategy and Governance Division, IFPRI (Video)
• Tony P. Hall, Executive Director Emeritus, Alliance to End Hunger (Video)
• Katherine Marshall, Senior Fellow, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University; Executive Director, World Faiths Development Dialogue (Video)
• Daniel Maxwell, Henry J. Leir Professor in Food Security, Friedman School of Nutrition, Tufts University (Video)

Closing Remarks:

• Shenggen Fan, Director General, IFPRI (Video)

• Panel Discussion Video

• Q&A Video

After 10+ years of economic growth and 20+ years of early warning systems, famine still threatens millions of people in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Yemen, and elsewhere. (IFPRI research on famine).

This policy round-table explored what we need to know and do differently to tackle famine.  Speakers addressed key questions including:

• What is the on-the-ground response to famine and how is it working?
• What does research say about why we continue to experience famine and what can we do to prevent it?
• How do we address the role of conflict in famine?
• As famines persist, how do we improve humanitarian and resilience programming policies?
• How is the US government and civil society responding to famine?
• Have national or global governance mechanisms failed?