Food Security and the Global Economic Crisis: March 3, 2009

The Center for Strategic and International Studies and Chatham House cordially invite you to attend:
Food Security and the Global Economic Crisis
Keynote Address by

Josette Sheeran
Executive Director, UN World Food Program

Moderated by

Johanna Nesseth
Co-Director, CSIS Task Force on Global Food Security
Tuesday, March 3, 12:00-1:15pm
B-1 Conference Level
Center for Strategic and International Studies
1800 K St, NW Washington DC

Josette Sheeran will discuss the state of global food security and how the financial meltdown has hit the hungry poor. Amid a worsening global recession, Ms. Sheeran - one of the first leaders to sound the alarm on the global food crisis - will discuss how the financial crisis is compounding the impact on global health, nutrition, and poverty - especially among the 40 percent of the world's population that subsists on
$2 or less a day.

Please contact Brett Baptist at (202) 775-3169 or bbaptist@csis.org