Brookings Senior Fellow Examines Trends Of Rising Hunger, Obesity, Explores Global, Local Efforts On SDGs

Brookings Institution’s “The Current”: What does a new U.N. report reveal about global hunger and obesity?
In this podcast episode, “Brookings Senior Fellow John McArthur examines the trends of rising hunger and obesity [from a recent U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization report] and recommends using all the Sustainable Development Goals as a North Star to design policies to meet these twin challenges. McArthur also explores how global momentum toward the Sustainable Development Goals has progressed at the local level even while official intergovernmental cooperation stalls” (7/18).

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