After more than 40 years of teaching in the University of Hawaii’s Department of Political Science, George Kent retired in 2010 as professor emeritus. Currently he serves as an adjunct professor with the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney in Australia and also with the Department of Transformative Social Change Program at Saybrook University in California. Kent has worked with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Food Programme and several nongovernmental organizations. He has also written on food policy issues.