SDSN at the Global Food Security Conference

Members of the SDSN’s Network on Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems met in South Africa at the 3rd Annual Global Food Security Conference on December 3-6, 2017. The meeting brought together diverse stakeholders from the agriculture and food security sectors to discuss issues like food safety, food utilization, and addressing losses and waste. Ken Giller, […]

Members of the SDSN’s Network on Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems met in South Africa at the 3rd Annual Global Food Security Conference on December 3-6, 2017. The meeting brought together diverse stakeholders from the agriculture and food security sectors to discuss issues like food safety, food utilization, and addressing losses and waste. Ken Giller, a co-chair of the Network, was a speaker at the event, along with Network member Molly Jahn. A summary of Giller’s speech is available online.

The outcomes of the workshop included a desire to explore the missing middle in rural as well as urban contexts, as well as the need to focus on empowering local communities. As a follow-up to this workshop, the Network will form a small community of practice around this topic. The community will develop a session proposal for the SDG 2 Conference at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands on 30-31 August, 2018 . If you are interested in joining this community of practice, please contact Linda Veldhuizen.