On 9th October Gordon Conway was joined by Calestous Juma (Harvard Kennedy School), Mo Ibrahim (Mo Ibrahim Foundation) and Molly Kinder (ONE) to launch his new book, hosted by Sarah Smith from Channel 4 News.

One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World? 

On 9th October, Sir Gordon Conway, Professor of International Development & Director of Agriculture for Impact was joined by Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development, Harvard Kennedy School, Dr Mo Ibrahim, founder of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation & founder and former chairman of Celtel, and Molly Kinder, Director for Agriculture and European Policy, ONE, to launch his new book and to delve into the many interrelated issues critical to our global food supply.  Moderator Sarah Smith from Channel 4 News hosted a lively and interactive debate, which invited online participants to take part via twitter. 

One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World? expands the discussion begun in Conway's influential The Doubly Green Revolution: Food for All in the Twenty-First Century, emphasising the essential combination of increased food production,environmental stability, and poverty reduction necessary to end endemic hunger on our planet.

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Media Coverage

• One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World? Yes we can! - Gordon Conway writes for the Huffington Post (also published in the Bill & Melinda Gates Impatient Optimists blog and the Chicago Council's Global Food for Thought blog
• Can We Feed the World? - Conway is interviewed by Voice of America 
• BBC World Service interviews Sir Gordon Conway on the recent food price surge
• Why Food Prices May Continue to Rise for 20 Years - Wall St Journal Live interview 
• Conway interview on the Monocle 24 Radio programme
• Can we feed the world by 2050? Gordon Conway appears on BBC World News
• Can We Feed the World? - article by IFDC 
• Announcement: One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World? - by the Platform for African – European Partnership in Agricultural Research for Development (PAEPARD) 
• Better late than never - Ehsan Masood, Research Profesionnal 
• Can we feed one billion hungry people? - Global Food Security blog 
• Can we feed an ever more crowded, hungrier, and less spacious world? - The Guardian
• New book urges united global action plan to end hunger - Reuters 
• Why Food Prices May Continue to Rise for 20 Years - Wall St Journal Live interview 
• Nature book review 

New book website

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new website www.canwefeedtheworld.org 

This website has been set up as an arena for new and up-to-date information related to the book.  

The sector of agricultural development changes rapidly and this website is a space for  sharing knowledge from a range of sources.  As such comments and contributions are welcomed with the hopes that this website can inspire informed discussion and debate. Anyone wanting to contribute a blog article to this site should contact k.wilson@imperial.ac.uk. While the aim is to showcase a wide range of information from different sources only articles directly relating to the book’s content will be published.

Policy briefing about the book 

You can read more about the key messages of the book in our new policy briefing document

About the book

Hunger is a daily reality for a billion people. More than six decades after the technological discoveries that led to the Green Revolution aimed atending world hunger, regu lar food shortages, malnutrition, and poverty still plague vast swaths of the world. And with increasing food prices,climate change, resource inequality, and an ever-increasing global population,the future holds further challenges.

Gordon Conway addresses a series of urgent questions about global hunger:

• How we will feed a growing global population in the face of a widerange of adverse factors, including climate change?
• What contributions can the social and natural sciences make in findingsolutions?
• And how can we engage both government and the private sectorto apply these solutions and achieve significant impact in the lives of the poor?

Conway succeeds in sharing his informed optimism about our collectiveability to address these fundamental challenges if we use technologypaired with sustainable practices and strategic planning.

Conway succeeds in sharing his informed optimism about our collectiveability to address these fundamental challenges if we use technologypaired with sustainable practices and strategic planning.