I recently provided a guest commentary for the East Asia Forum Quarterly. My piece “The Road Ahead for India’s National Food Security Bill” highlights the importance of India’s proposed National Food Security Bill. The bill holds the potential to improve food access for most of the country’s poor and vulnerable. However, India will need to [...]

I just returned from a trip to Ireland, April 12 to 15, where I participated in several high-level events focusing on topics important to advancing global food and nutrition security. My first stop was the Teagasc and Royal Dublin Society Lecture themed, “Grand Challenges for Global Agriculture and Food” in Dublin. There I gave the [...]

As the 2015 deadline of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals fast approaches, the goal of halving the proportion of people who suffer from hunger is not on track. While significant progress has been made, nearly 870 million individuals remain undernourished and more than 2 billion suffer from micronutrient deficiencies. I recently participated in the [...]

Today, I had the privilege of testifying to the International Development Committee of the UK House of Commons for the inquiry on Global Food Security. The purpose of the inquiry was to see how the global food system can ensure an end to hunger and to particularly look into the role that the UK should play. [...]

The global food system remained vulnerable in 2012. There was a lot of talk about food and nutrition security. However, many commitments made in agriculture and food policy by developing countries, the international community, and other major stakeholders have not yet turned to action. Today marks the launch of the second annual edition of IFPRI’s flagship [...]

At the end of January, I traveled to Bangkok, Thailand to take part in a high-level consultative meeting organized by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization on “Integrating Nutrition into ASEAN Food Security Framework and its Strategic Plan of Action for Food Security.” Despite significant advances [...]