Lecture by World Food Programme Executive Director

Ms. Ertharin Cousin speaks at TAU about working to end global hunger

19 June 2013

Ertharin Cousin is the Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the world’s largest humanitarian organizations, with about 15,000 staff serving about 100 million beneficiaries in 78 countries across the world. Ms. Cousin brings more than twenty-five years of national and international non-profit, government and corporate leadership experience focusing on hunger, food, and resilience strategies. Cousin guides the WFP in meeting urgent food needs while championing longer-term solutions to food insecurity and hunger. Ms Cousin is an exceptional advocate for improving the lives of hungry people worldwide, and travels extensively to raise awareness of food insecurity and chronic malnutrition.

 

During her lecture at TAU, Ms. Cousin spoke about the WFP's many activities worldwide, and the changes in strategy over the past years, specifically the shift toward empowering small-scale farmers and using more locally grown food for food aid purposes. In her talk, she addressed key topics such as helping small farmers in developing countries increase their yields and waste reduction since, according to Cousin, “one-third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted globally, so we are also interested in exploring the possibility of developing new ways to minimize post-harvest losses.

 

Ms. Cousin emphasized the importance of Israeli technology such as drip irrigation and desert agriculture in increasing global food security.

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