By Tom Ellison
Global hunger is worsening humanitarian emergencies, food prices are driving instability, weather shocks are threatening the global food system, and extremists and geopolitical challengers are capitalizing. In this context, getting ahead of the nexus of food insecurity and climate change is critical to US national security.
On September 16, the Center for Climate and Security (CCS) will launch The Feeding Resilience Plan, a report synthesizing the 18-month Feeding Resilience project on food, climate change, and US national security. Interested policymakers, researchers, and members of the public are invited to register and join CCS for a launch event on September 16 from 12 – 1:30 pm EST on Capitol Hill (Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2060).
The event will feature a keynote conversation between Lieutenant General John G. Castellaw (USMC, Ret.), CCS Advisory Board member, and Caroline Baxter, CCS Senior Advisor and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Education and Training, discussing what food insecurity and climate change mean for the US military. CCS authors Erin Sikorsky and Tom Ellison will then present the report’s analysis and US policy recommendations, which have been endorsed by dozens of former admirals, generals, ambassadors, senior intelligence officials, and defense and development leaders. Q&A will follow.
Please register for the event here. If you would like lunch, please complete the registration form by September 11th.