Join us on March 19 from 1:30-2:30 p.m. EST for an interactive discussion on Twitter with global hunger and nutrition expert, Roger Thurow. Roger is senior fellow for global agriculture and food policy at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and author of Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty and The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change.
Roger will answer your global agriculture and nutrition questions. Use #AskRoger to submit your questions now and then follow #March4Nutrition tomorrow to get Roger’s take on how we can work toward solving agriculture and food security challenges.
Since March 2013, Roger has been working on a book about the vital importance of proper nutrition and health care in the 1,000 day window from the beginning of a woman’s pregnancy to her child’s second birthday. For more information about this project, please visit outrageandinspire.org, or contact Sung Lee at slee@thechicagocouncil.org.
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Twitter Chat with Global Hunger and Nutrition Expert Roger Thurow
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