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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

Lina Alaaeldin Abdelfattah

Lina Alaaeldin Abdelfattah is a Senior Research Associate in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Cairo. Her research interests include applied economic development, trade, and spatial economics, with a focus on topics relevant to social protection, food, nutrition, and agriculture in the Middle East and Africa. 

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Tackling Famine in the Twenty-First Century

DC

1201 Eye St. NW

12th Floor Conference Center

Washington, United States

July 12, 2017

  • 12:15 – 1:45 pm (America/New_York)
  • 6:15 – 7:45 pm (Europe/Amsterdam)
  • 9:45 – 11:15 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

IFPRI Policy Roundtable - Tackling Famine in the Twenty-First Century

Moderator:

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:

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?