Inside Story

What can be done to ensure food security and preserve water?

Growth of global population to nearly 9 billion presents critical challenge to guaranteeing water and food security.

Over 800 million people live in hunger-stricken areas. The majority of those live in conflict zones.

Ensuring quantity and quality of water for survival, but also for food production in the context of agricultural intensification, is essential to mitigate the risk of mass migration conflict.

On this special edition of Inside Story from the Doha Forum, we ask: Are the current world food governance support systems enough to mitigate current risks?

And what can be done to avoid price volatility and its impact on the poorest?

Presenter: Dareen Abughaida

Guests:

Pablo Campana – Ecuador’s Minister of Foreign Trade and Investments

Bader Al-Dafa – executive director at Global Dryland Alliance (GDA)

Miguel Angel Moratinos – future UN High Representative for the Alliance of Civilisations

Djimé Adoum – executive secretary of Permanent Interstates Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel, CILSS