Dive Brief:

• Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Science is leading a public dialogue on how to reduce food waste while getting more food to the world’s neediest people.
• At Wednesday’s 2015 Grand Challenge Mini-Symposium at the AgriLife Center at the university, Texas A&M educators came together to create a strategy offering answers to reducing food waste at the university and worldwide. An important part of creating such a successful strategy is telling stories. People need to make a narrative, said horticultural sciences professor Luis Cisneros-Zevallos.
• "We have to create successful stories. If you create successful stories you have credibility, you have authority to say, 'This is the way to go and this is the way to do it,'" Cisneros said.

Dive Insight:

Texas A&M food and poultry science professor Suresh Pillai said food security has been a problem for hundreds of years, but it can be lessened. "Global food security has been [an issue] for many centuries, and human civilization has always been very adept at figuring out other ways of approaching this," Pillai said.