Food is one issue that cannot be solved person by person. We have to stand together.

This isn't one of those rare diseases that we don't have the solution for. We know how to fix hunger.

If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible.

Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes — the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things — there is nothing to fall back on.

Seize the moment – don’t wait for anyone to give you permission.

Food is one issue that cannot be solved person by person. We have to stand together.

If any good comes out of the current famine in the Horn of Africa - amidst the pictures of mothers carrying dying babies at their shrivelled breasts and hollow-eyed children with swollen bellies and matchstick limbs - it will be galvanising the world on the need to ensure access to nutritious food for the world's most vulnerable people.