Halima Begum
Policy Adviser
I joined DFID in 2003 and am now based in Beijing, following periods working in London, Dhaka and Kathmandu. I coordinate the UK-China Action Plan on Food Security and work on sharing the lessons from China’s growth story with other developing countries. Home town is London. I love writing.
Working to defeat world hunger
Posted 27 October 2009
As a teenage girl I didn’t have a complex about how much I was eating. I got on-demand food when I wanted, and fought with my siblings when there was spare food on the table. East London wasn’t the rice bowl of Britain but we had plenty to eat. Millions of people in the world, [...]
