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Global Food Security Symposium 2022

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Leading experts discussed action needed to meet unprecedented global food security crises arising from climate change, the pandemic, and conflict.

Three women harvest vegetation in a field in India.
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Global Food Security Symposium 2021

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Global Food Security Symposium

In advance of the UN Food Systems Summit, US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman, Impossible Foods’ Head of Impact Strategy Rebekah Moses, and other global leaders discuss innovations transforming food systems.

A woman looks at rows of small plants in a growing facility
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Global Food Security Symposium 2020

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Discover how innovation is changing the way consumers, in the United States and abroad, think about the food system and how new breakthroughs can support a secure, healthy, and prosperous planet.

A person holds a small plant sprout, with a row of others in the background

Global Food Security Challenges in the Era of COVID-19

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Sara Menker of Gro Intelligence and Sanjeev Krishnan of S2G Ventures joined Laura Reiley of The Washington Post to discuss the large-scale impacts COVID-19 has had on the global food system.

A London grocery store with empty shelves during the COVID-19 pandemic
John Cameron

Global Food Security Symposium 2019

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The 2019 Global Food Security Symposium considered: in the face of increasing water insecurity, how we grow an adequate quantity and quality of food to feed a rapidly urbanizing world.

Rice fields in Indonesia
Sebastian Pena Lambarri

Global Food Security Symposium 2018

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Global Food Security Symposium

The 2018 Global Food Security Symposium examines how surging youth populations can fuel tremendous agricultural growth that will impact the global economy, but, if underemployed, they present a risk.

Five people on stage during the 2018 Global Food Security Symposium

Global Food Security Symposium 2017

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The 2017 Global Food Security Symposium in Washington, DC focused on how the US can help lead struggling nations and turn frontier markets into thriving partners.

A farmer attends a rice field in Indonesia
Simon Fangers

Global Food Security Symposium 2016

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The  Global Food Security Symposium 2016  brought together key multi-disciplinary stakeholders to discuss transformations to the global food system necessary to feed growing cities.

The 2016 Global Food Security Symposium

Global Food Security Symposium 2015

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The 2015 Global Food Security Symposium focused on the topic of “Healthy Food for a Healthy World: Leveraging Agriculture and Food to Improve Global Nutrition.”

2015 Global Food Security Symposium

Global Food Security Symposium 2014

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Global leaders convened at The Chicago Council's Global Food Security Symposium to chart a course for how the US government could advance global food security in the face of weather volatility and climate change.

Susan Rice speaking at the 2014 Global Food Security Symposium