Innovative approaches, unprecedented cooperation, and deep expertise are needed to end global hunger. Today, over 1 billion people are estimated to be food insecure, lacking access to adequate food to meet their basic needs.
But food security is achievable, says US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Ensuring food security will involve massive, collaborative efforts, investing in agricultural productivity and infrastructure, implementing the right policies, improving the quality of information needed to make the right decisions, and much more.
The complexities of ensuring food security involve numerous stakeholders and careful consideration of political, economic, climactic, social, and demographic factors. The impacts of hunger go beyond poverty and hunger to threaten the economic productivity, and security of all nations. Fighting hunger is a priority for the Obama Administration. And the US has a unique opportunity to lead the global effort.
Responding to food insecurity requires knowledge, expertise, and a portfolio of approaches. With its extensive capabilities and relationships across the food security spectrum, Booz Allen is well positioned to respond to the global demand for food security solutions.
Booz Allen brings innovation, global networks, and capabilities in early warning, forecasting, and decision support to the food security effort. The firm has essential experience in agribusiness-enabling environmental assessment and supply chains, remote land monitoring and surveying, and advanced data modeling and scenario development.
Food insecurity affects civil, security, and defense sectors that are a priority for many of Booz Allen’s clients. The firm has provided analytic, geospatial, and remote-sensing expertise to these clients to support strategic agricultural monitoring. The firm is identifying ways to make US food security initiatives more effective and supportive of country-led initiatives in regions where food insecurity is a major concern.
Booz Allen’s critical expertise and longstanding relationships with the civil, nonprofit, federal, and international organizations that are leading the food security effort will be crucial as the effort escalates and moves forward.
