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SUMMARY:The State of Food Security at Home and Abroad
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a panel discussion led by LBJ experts on what is d
 riving food insecurity in the world today and the solutions that we can p
 ut in place both in our local and global communities. We are hosting this
  event in celebration of Texas International Education Week!\n\nInternati
 onal inspired light bites provided!\n\nFree and open to the public.\n\nLB
 J South Lobby\n\nRSVP to Attend\n\nPanelists:\n\nDr. Erin Lentz\n\nErin L
 entz is an associate professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The
  University of Texas at Austin. She teaches on research and empirical met
 hods\, development policy\, gender and development\, and food policy. Her
  research explores food security\; early warning systems\; gender\, nutri
 tion\, and agriculture linkages\; and U.S. food aid and food assistance p
 olicies.\n\nDr. Lentz is currently pursuing four research agendas. First\
 , she is an established authority on U.S. food aid and food assistance po
 licy. For nearly two decades\, she has studied donor responses to food in
 security in low-income countries. This research informed her 2018 congres
 sional testimony on reforming food aid. Second\, she researches innovativ
 e approaches to improving early warning for food insecurity crises\, with
  a focus on leveraging real-time data and machine learning techniques. Th
 ird\, she analyzes the links between hunger\, gender and nutrition. With 
 collaborators she developed the Women's Empowerment in Nutrition Index. H
 aving validated the Index in South Asia\, she is now preparing to validat
 e it in K\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/7c9d3efe-8339-493f-a00e-adcd1ebc
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