Ertharin Cousin

Ertharin Cousin is the CEO of Food Systems for the Future Institute. She also serves as a distinguished fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs; a Bosch Academy, Robert Weizsäcker Fellow; and as a visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Center on Food Security and Environment. In 2009, she was nominated and confirmed as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture in Rome, where she served from 2009 to 2012. From 2012 until 2017, she led the United Nations World Food Programme as executive director.

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Four farm workers squat as they harvest crops in front of billowing columns of dark gray smoke from airstrikes on Iran. Fields and a few low trees stretch on to the horizon.
Four farm workers squat as they harvest crops in front of billowing columns of dark gray smoke from airstrikes on Iran. Fields and a few low trees stretch on to the horizon.

The Next Global Food Crisis Has Already Begun This article has an audio recording

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Ertharin Cousin
A man works in a wheat field. he is seen hunching over the wheat crop.
A man works in a wheat field. he is seen hunching over the wheat crop.

How to Prevent a Meltdown of the Global Food System

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Ertharin Cousin, Devry Boughner Vorwerk, Matthias Berninger
Displaced Yemenis receive food aid donated by a British organization in Yemen's western province of Hodeida on Feb. 9.
Displaced Yemenis receive food aid donated by a British organization in Yemen's western province of Hodeida on Feb. 9.

Hunger Is a Weapon of War. Food Can Help Prevent It.

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Ertharin Cousin
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