Roger Thurow joined the Chicago Council on Global Affairs as senior fellow on global food and agriculture in January 2010 after three decades at The Wall Street Journal. For 20 years, he was a Journal foreign correspondent based in Europe and Africa.

In 2003, he and Journal colleague Scott Kilman wrote a series of stories on famine in Africa that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting. Their reporting on humanitarian and development issues was also honored by the United Nations. Thurow and Kilman are authors of the book ENOUGH: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty. In 2009, they were awarded Action Against Hunger's Humanitarian Award. Thurow is also the author of The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change, and his most recent book, The First 1,000 Days: A Crucial Time for Mothers and Children—and the World.

Interactive slideshow featuring Hagirso, the young Ethiopian we’ve been visiting since the famine of 2003 https://ccga.ccgclients.com/hagirso/ ... illustrating the lifelong impact of childhood malnutrition.

Link to a short video introducing The First 1,000 Days book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvS6ijzgfgM

Here is The First 1,000 Days and Beyond website where we continue to follow some of the moms and children in The First 1,000 Days book http://thurow1000days.org/

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