Latest SciDev.Net Spotlight: Ensuring Food Security for the Future

The SciDev.Net website www.scidev.net acts as a source of news, views and analysis on information about science and technology for global development. Engaging primarily with development professionals, policymakers, researchers, the media and the informed public, SciDev.Net publishes in-depth thematic analyses called Spotlights.

This Spotlight presents opinions, facts and figures, key reports and useful links on the topic of food security. Access to an adequate and nutritious diet is about more than agricultural productivity. Which factors contribute to food insecurity, how do they relate to other development challenges, and what can scientific knowledge bring to efforts to tackle hunger and malnutrition?
It includes a multimedia feature with the NGO Practical Action in the Bolivian highlands, and podcast interviews with Sir Gordon Conway, Professor at Imperial College London; Lawrence Haddad, Director of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex; and Julia Powell, Communications Manager at IDS.

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