Food Security

The Global Food and Water Security Program provides long-term, strategic guidance to policy makers on the economic, political, social, and climate-related causes of and responses to food insecurity around the world.

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Conflict, Hunger, and Famine in Sudan

Less than two years after the outbreak of civil war, famine conditions are confirmed in Sudan. With ceasefire talks faltering and a near-complete lack of humanitarian access, conditions continue to deteriorate for 26 million Sudanese facing acute food insecurity.

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Critical Questions by Zane Swanson, Anita Kirschenbaum, and Caitlin Welsh — September 11, 2024

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Caitlin Welsh

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Director, Global Food and Water Security Program
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David Michel

Senior Fellow, Global Food and Water Security Program
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Bhawna Prakash

Senior Fellow, Water and Sanitation, Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies
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Fellow, Global Food and Water Security Program

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Building New Relationships on TB Control, One BRICS at a Time

Among the 22 countries considered to have a high burden of tuberculosis (TB), the group of emerging economies known as the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) account for at least 60 percent of notified cases.

Report by Katherine E. Bliss — June 6, 2014

Modernizing U.S. Food Security Efforts

Margaret is a recognized thought leader on food security issues, serving as a media commentator and writer for several publications and news networks around the world.

Event — March 13, 2014

GAFSP (Global Agriculture Food Security Program)

Ms. Laura Mecagni, Head of the Global Agriculture Food Security Program's private sector window at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), discussed major successes, challenges, and future plans on GAFSP. 

Event — March 5, 2014

Biosafety of GM Crops in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania

This report outlines the status of biotechnology regulatory structures in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, with a focus on regulation of genetically modified (GM) crops.

Report by Judith A. Chambers — December 17, 2013

Pathways to Productivity

This report provides an overview of the debate in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda over genetically modified (GM) crops and their potential role in improving food security among smallholder farmers.

Report by Johanna Nesseth Tuttle and Kristin Wedding — October 17, 2013

Water and Sanitation in the Time of Cholera

In October 2010, just nine months after an earthquake devastated the capital city of Port-au-Prince and displaced an estimated 1.5 million people, Haiti’s Ministry of Public Health and Population reported a cholera outbreak in two of the country’s most impoverished regions.

Report by Katherine E. Bliss and Matt Fisher — September 5, 2013