A Call for a Strategic U.S. Approach to the Global Food Crisis
The resulting report argues for modernizing and doubling emergency assistance, elevating rural development and agricultural productivity to be new foreign policy priorities, revising the U.S. approach to biofuels so that fuel and food security objectives are effectively deconflicted, acting on an urgent basis to conclude the Doha Development Round, and creating a strategic U.S. approach to global food security that interlinks approaches to relief, development, energy and trade and that is backed by new robust organizational capacities.
GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS REPORT
Introduction to Event through Senator Speeches:
AUDIO (streaming mp3, 00:38:13) | VIDEO (wmv, 00:38:13)
Speakers:
John J. Hamre
President and CEO, CSIS
J. Stephen Morrison
Co-Director
CSIS Task Force on the Global Food Crisis
Congressional Co-chairs
of the CSIS Task Force on the Global Food Crisis:
Senator Richard G. Lugar (R-IN)
Senator Robert P. Casey (D-PA)
AUDIO (mp3, 00:44:39) | VIDEO (wmv, 00:44:39)
With Remarks from:
Henrietta Holsman Fore
Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development
and Director of United States Foreign Assistance
Josette Sheeran
Executive Director
United Nations World Food Programme
Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering
Former U.S. Ambassador and Vice Chairman
Hills & Company
Members of the CSIS Task Force on the Global Food Crisis
Question Reponses and Closing Remarks: AUDIO(mp3, 00:07:04) | VIDEO (wmv, 00:07:04)