Global Agricultural Development Leaders Group

The Global Agricultural Development Leaders Group was convened in fall 2008 to assess the risks posed by rural poverty and food insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, and identify opportunities for the United States to work with governments and institutions in Africa and South Asia to increase productivity, market access, and incomes for small farmers. This bipartisan Group is comprised of thirteen former executive branch, congressional, international organization, and civic leaders in the fields of U.S. foreign policy, trade, international economics, agricultural development and international organizations. Its findings and conclusions are put forth in the report, Renewing American Leadership in the Fight Against Hunger and Poverty: The Chicago Initiative on Global Agricultural Development.

 

Chairs

Catherine A. Bertini, former executive director, UN World Food Program

Dan Glickman, former secretary of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Members

Carol Bellamy, former president and CEO, World Learning

Doug Bereuter, president and CEO, The Asia Foundation

Eva M. Clayton, former U.S. representative, North Carolina

Tony P. Hall, former U.S. representative, Ohio

M. Peter McPherson, president, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities

Phyllis E. Oakley, adjunct professor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Thomas R. Pickering, former under secretary of state, Political Affairs, U.S. Department of State

Per Pinstrup-Andersen, H.E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy, Cornell University

Pedro A. Sanchez, director, Tropical Agriculture and Rural Environment Program, The Earth Institute at Columbia University

Robert L. Thompson, professor emeritus of Agricultural Policy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Richard S. Williamson, senior fellow, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs



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