Serageldin and members of the high-level committee on the Millennium Development Goals convened in Rome at the FAO headquarters for their second meeting. The meeting focused on three main topics, the lessons learnt from SPFS; emerging threats to food security with a particular emphasis on climate change and FAO as a knowledge organization. Serageldin has always been a strong supporter of the MDGs generally and the hunger aspects specifically (see Serageldin’s piece on “the new abolitionists” published for the world hunger summit).