Emily Alpert

Let me tell you a little story. In 2008, food prices went through the roof. The cost of bread, milk, eggs, sugar, cooking oil, meat -– you name it -– became so expensive for the world’s poor people, who spend nearly all they’ve got on food, they could barely afford to eat. Photo from the

ONE reported this week that the G20 is getting a reputation for over-promising and under-delivering. For the most part, the same can be said for agricultural development and food security. The Mexican Presidency started out strong by inheriting the Agriculture Ministers Action Plan adopted at the 2011 Cannes G20 Summit. He recognized the G20’s goal

As you know, the G8 Summit is just a few days away. ONE has been working over the past few weeks to rally our ONE members to sign our petition to world leaders, asking them to prioritize global hunger and malnutrition at the Summit. To help put our petition into context, we interviewed with our

This blog post was originally published on Business Fights Poverty, an online community for business and development. The Camp David G8 Summit is fast approaching. Organizations like ONE have been working tirelessly to influence the G8’s thinking on food and nutrition security. We’ve asked the G8 to not only deliver on their past commitments, but

OK, so it’s been about two weeks now since we launched Thrive, our campaign for global food security, which means you’ve had more than enough time to read the Thrive report and know it inside and out. Now’s the time to test your knowledge of global hunger and nutrition. Take this short quiz to find

If you haven’t heard, there is another food crisis brewing in West Africa. Niger and Chad are most affected, but Burkina Faso and Mali are also hard hit. The UN estimates that 16 million people across the Sahel region could be affected by a dangerous combination of drought, high food prices and limited coping strategies

On February 3rd, the famine in Somalia was declared over — but as my colleague Adrian Lovett wrote in a blog post last week, this is hardly a cause for celebration. If you think about it, the technical definition of famine is when you have more than 2 people or 4 kids under 5 per

Many thanks to ONE’s members, our collective voice has helped raise UN Appeal funding for the Horn of Africa by $1 billion and elicit another $700 million-plus in pledges. If combined and fulfilled, these pledges would more than fill the $530 million funding gap.

Business and food go hand in hand. Researching and developing new technologies that improve the quality of a seed or reduce the amount of time a farmer spends harvesting crops is largely done by the private sector. Private companies process, package, transport and market foods to all of us every day. So, there’s no question

Right now, we’re urging Congress to fully fund Feed the Future, a program that helps improve food security for the world’s poorest people. How does it make an impact on lives, exactly? Read George Chitosa’s story to find out… When we first walked into the Chitosa Trading grain warehouse, it was hard to envision just

Over the past year, drought has plagued much of the Horn of Africa: Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda. It has been the driest year on record since 1950! The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWSNET) and Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU) were able to signal this emerging weather-related crisis as early

When we first walked into the Chitosa Trading grain warehouse, it was hard to envision just what this great big empty room could do to help improve the livelihoods and food security of Malawian farmers. But Mr. George Chitosa told us not to worry -– there are a few weeks to go before the harvest.