Feeding the World: The U.S. Role in Solving the Global Food Crisis

What caused the current world food crisis? More importantly, what can be done about it— both now and in the future? Three leading experts discussed factors that have contributed to the global food crisis and how policymakers, not only in the U.S. but worldwide, can address the key issues.

On Friday, June 27, 2008, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars presented Wilson Center on the Hill, Feeding the World: The U.S. Role in Solving the Global Food Crisis. This discussion featured Bruce Stokes, International Economics Columnist, National Journal; Sandra Polaski, Senior Associate and Director, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Kim Elliott, Senior Fellow Center for Global Development.