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Universal Food Security
Platform for Peace and Prosperity
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Imagine a world without hunger and malnutrition. What would it take to achieve a genuinely food-secure world—where every person gets to consume the right quantity and quality of food to live a healthy, active, and productive life?
Achieving and sustaining such a future requires transforming how our food is grown, managed, distributed, and consumed. From production to consumption, our food systems must be more sustainable, halting environmental degradation, and even repairing the damage we have previously done.
Glenn Denning’s Universal Food Security: How to End Hunger While Protecting the Planet presents a bold, evidence-based, practical guide to food systems transformation. He bridges the divisive worlds of science, policy, and practice. By synthesizing the most relevant literature, consulting the world’s foremost experts, and sharing personal insights gained over four decades, Denning lays out five priority areas for action and investment.
But in Universal Food Security, Denning goes beyond what needs to change. He goes on to tackle the challenges of implementation. Echoing the words of his mentor, the late Professor MS Swaminathan, Denning argues that we need the knowhow and the do-how to transform our food systems.
Universal Food Security calls for a new generation of enlightened practitioner-leaders—acting on their own and with others, through institutions—to achieve a food-secure world.
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Thumbnail, Poster and Header: Rice crops in Cambodia
Instastory: Maize crops in Malawi
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Speakers
Glenn Denning
Glenn Denning is Professor of Professional Practice and Founding Director of the Master of Public Administration (MPA) in Development Practice program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). He previously held senior management and research positions at the International Rice Research Institute, the World Agroforestry Centre, and the Earth Institute. He has advised governments and international organizations on agriculture, food security, and sustainable development. Born and raised in Australia, Denning obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in agricultural science from the University of Queensland, a PhD from the University of Reading, and an MPA degree from Harvard University.
Shivsharan Someshwar
Shivsharan Someshwar is a Development Clinician, diagnosing development of cities and nation states. A Visiting Professor at Columbia University, New York and at Sciences Po, Paris, he was the founder chair-holder of the European Chair for Sustainable Development and Climate Transition at Sciences Po. He helped set up the initial national and regional networks of the global Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
His publications cover a range of issues: planning, institutions and governance for sustainable development; climate change mitigation, adaptation, risks and offsets; and ecosystem management. He edited Re-living the Memories of an Indian Forester: Memoir of S. Shyam Sunder (2020), and is presently writing The Fallacy of Evidence-Based Policy Making. His recent podcast on climate and development can be found here.
Someshwar convened and chaired the Independent Task Force on Creative Climate Action. He has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and he was a Bell-MacArthur fellow at Harvard University. He has two Masters’ degrees, on housing and on environmental planning, and is also trained as a professional architect. He has previously worked at the Earth Institute, Columbia University, the World Bank in Washington D.C. and the Rockefeller Foundation in New York. He is on the advisory board of Liz Claiborne Art Ortenberg Foundation, New York and Institut du développement durable et des relations internationals, Paris.
