More than 800 million people suffer hunger today. A new global effort has been launched to solve this complex problem and find ways to double food production in 25 to 50 years in an environmentally and socially sustainable manner under the conditions of climate change.

Impossible?

For the first time NGOs, governments, research institutions, consumer and farmer organisations and the private sector are working as equals to determine the necessary ingredients for food security at the local level through the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD). Their aim is to reshape approaches to food security issues, based on science, technology and traditional knowledge.