What's For Dinner?

Jennifer Clapp is Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security and Sustainability at University of Waterloo, Canada. She explains why food leaders wrote How We Count Hunger Matters in response to the UN's FAO's State of Food Insecurity 2012. It underrepresented world hunger, and the trend line implied progress toward meeting the Millennium Development goal of reducing hunger by 2015. Jennifer describes the preferred alternative for counting hunger - including everyone affected by life conditions as they are really lived under current conditions of global change. The interview demonstrates the way defining the goal and the problem shape what you count, and the way these leaders confronted the prevailing aid and development paradigms.