Where the Rubber Hits the Road: Population and Food Security in the Sahel

Over the next 30 to 40 years in the Sahel region of Africa, between 100 and 200 million people are likely to be without sustainable food supplies. The presentation will discuss the challenge of population growth, the region's natural resources and the implications for food security, with a focus on Niger. The second half of the talk will highlight what can be done to slow population growth in a human-rights framework.

Speaker: Alisha Graves is the Co-Founder of the OASIS Initiative and leads strategy, development and advocacy efforts for the project. She completed her MPH in International Maternal and Child Health at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health in 2006. She worked for six years as Senior Program Manager for a non-profit organization to improve access to misoprostol – a generic, essential medicine. In this role, she worked on policy initiatives, drug registration, and operations research across seven countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia.