Video: Conflict’s Corrosive Impact on Food Security
Watch the 2018 guest lecture at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute titled “Food Insecurity—A 21st Century Threat to Global Security and Stability,” in which FIRST keynoter Ertharin Cousin offered an analysis of one of the most pervasive and intractable causes of global hunger.
Read the June Food Technology feature "Can Science Deliver Zero Hunger?" to learn more.
Register to attend FIRST to see Ertharin Cousin's keynote—"Zero Hunger: Will We Get There?"— on Monday, July 19.
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