You Are Invited, January, 25 2011:
Is a Food Crisis Brewing in the Sahel?
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Africa Program, Environmental Change and Security Program
Wednesday, January 25, 2011, 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC
6th Floor Auditorium
RSVP Agenda Directions Webcast
Dramane Coulibaly, Team Leader, European Union Technical Assistance, Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS)
Greg Gottlieb, Bureau for Food Security, USAID
Jacques Higgins, Deputy Director, U.S. Relations Office, World Food Program
Steve McDonald, Director, Africa Program, Wilson Center
Michele McNabb, President, Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa
Eric Munoz, Senior Policy Advisor, Oxfam
Ben Safari, Regional Technical Advisor, Commodities and Supply Chain Management, Catholic Relief Services
John Scicchitano, Program Manager, FEWSNET
John Sewell, Senior Scholar, Wilson Center
Meera Shekar, Lead Health Specialist, Africa Region Technical Health Unit, World Bank
Emmy Simmons, Board Member, Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa
John Staatz, Michigan State University
While African nations and the donor community struggle to mitigate famine in the Horn of Africa, concern is growing that drought in the Sahel will trigger a food crisis of comparable proportion in West Africa by the spring of 2012. However, experts caution against misdiagnosing food insecurity in the Sahel, for fear that excessive band-aid treatments of emergency food assistance will squander energy and scarce resources that would be better utilized in treating pockets of severe food shortages and building resiliency in the region. With input from American and African experts on the Sahel, this event will explore the true nature of the emerging crisis in the Sahel and seek to identify effective responses, including regional trade and resilience-building through agricultural development.
If you are interested, but unable to attend the event, please tune into the live or archived webcast.
Location: Woodrow Wilson Center at the Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington DC, USA ("Federal Triangle" stop on Blue/Orange Line), 6th floor auditorium. A map to the Center is available at www.wilsoncenter.org/directions. Note: Due to heightened security, entrance to the building will be restricted and photo identification is required. Please allow additional time to pass through security.
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