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ennifer Clapp has co-written a policy brief with Frances Moore Lappé, Molly Anderson, Robin Broad, Ellen Messer, Thomas Pogge and Timothy Wise titled, How We Count Hunger Matters. The policy brief, freshly published in the Ethics and International Affairs journal, examines the FAO’s new method of measuring hunger presented in its 2012 State of Food Insecurity in the World report (SOFI 12).

The G20 and Food Security: a Mismatch in Global Governance?, a new article published in Global Policy in May 2013, by Jennifer Clapp and 2013 Trudeau Scholar Sophia Murphy, is now freely available online.

At the end of May 2013, I flew to Victoria, BC to participate in the annual meeting of the Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) at the University of Victoria. The CAFS conference was part of the larger Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, which brought around 8000 academics, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners to Victoria from June first to eighth.

Reblogged from Noah Zerbe at http://globalfoodpolitics.wordpress.com/:

Lucie Edwards participated in this year’s Environmental Studies Association of Canada conference, as well as the meeting of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science. She shares a debrief from each event below.

Congratulations to Lucie Edwards on her new publication, Global Problems, African Solutions: African Climate Scientists’ Perspectives on Climate Change.

Jennifer Clapp has written an opinion piece for the Ottawa Citizen on how world hunger might be addressed in the UN’s Post-2015 Development Agenda, and on a key lesson that must be learned from the Millennium Development Goals experience.