As leaders prepare to gather in New York next week at a meeting of the Open Working Group, Pamela Anderson, director of the agricultural development program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Josh Lozman, deputy director of program advocacy at the foundation, write in the foundation’s “Impatient Optimists” blog about food security and nutrition as a key topic for the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals. “At the foundation, partnership and goal-setting are core to the way we work. We believe that if the global community is to make significant progress on poverty and hunger, we must work together.  We can start by agreeing to a common goal and set of targets to eliminate hunger and malnutrition…” (3/24).