Food For Thought – Week Three


Arran Towers, Self Help Africa Development Education Officer presents on Global Food Systems and how we must find sustainable ways to produce our food


Welcome back to Food for Thought: How to Feed the World in the 21st Century. Great to have you join us again.

You can check out week one and two of our course: Kenya’s Maggie Ngetha providing an outline to the course here , and Hugh Bergin’s look at the SDGs, and Ireland’s role in creating the UN Global Goals here.

For our third presentation, Arran Towers speaks about Global Food Systems, and why its important to find sustainable ways to feed a growing world population.

You can check out his presentation below, while there are links to further reading, beneath the presentation. 

A little more Food for Thought…


The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD): Understanding Global Food Systems 

The UN Food Systems Summit: New York, September 2021

Columbia Climate School: The Future of Food

 Ireland’s international development policy: ‘A Better World’.