These days, persistent societal challenges are on the rise: hunger, mental health issues, contagious disease, conflict, chronic inequality, and the climate crisis. The list goes on — but so do the opportunities for innovation. Seldom has the world seen greater promise or greater peril.
Realizing the more optimistic paths forward may not be easy, but it is possible. Among other things, it requires new models of collaboration, which is why several leading organizations recently came together to rethink core assumptions about how to address global hunger, with the audacious goal of ending chronic hunger in our lifetimes. The approach just might serve as a model for other issues, as well.
An Urgent Issue
Today, as many as 828 million people — one in ten worldwide — face hunger, a number that has grown 22% since the start of the pandemic. Alarmingly, as many
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