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“There is a whole change or shift in the way we look at food security today, both from the level of the household up to the community, up to the state itself, and the governments, and the countries we operate in,” says Amer Daoudi, regional director for Sudan for the World Food Programme, in this interview.

Mr. Daoudi goes on to discuss new technological advances in monitoring and reporting, as well as the World Food Programme’s engagement in Rio+20, and the effects of climate change on long-term food production.

The interview was conducted by Chris Perry, Senior Policy Analyst.

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Interview Transcript

Chris Perry (CP): I wanted to start out with a question about the situation in Sudan.

Your current position with WFP in Sudan is not your first. Can you speak a little bit about how the food security situation over the past several decades has changed over time and how that can be extrapolated to the bigger picture of food security issu