In this episode of Boss Files, the woman who feeds the world.

Erthrin Cousin heads up the United Nations World Food Program.

Today, nearly 800 million people around the world are undernourished, and one in three suffer from malnutrition.

Earthren's mission is one that most would call impossible to end hunger in our lifetime.

But she doesn't see it that way.

She's a force of nature, and the story of how she got here from the west side of Chicago is remarkable.

Here's my conversation with the woman who sees poverty on the front lines every day.

Earthman Cousin, thank you for being here.

I had such a pleasure. Thank you for

wanting to do it. It's great to see you again. The last time we sat down was three or four years ago.

Yes. World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. You were just a year or two into your role

running the World Food Program at the United Nations. This is a huge job, a critical job, a heartbreaking job.

The UN World Food Program helps so many people, but for everyone out there, just give us a

sense of the magnitude of the crisis right now.

Yeah, it's... where did it begin?

The challenge is, this is 2017, and we're facing four possible famines,

Northeast Nigeria, because of the conflict with Boko Haram,

and the lack of access into the areas that Boko Haram controls

means that over 2 million people

could potentially fall into famine.

In South Sudan, we've already declared a famine in three counties in Unity State in South

Sudan, and there are another 3.4 million people who are at risk of famine if we don't

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