Publications

The below publications are authored by or affiliated with The Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

Renewing American Leadership in the Fight Against Hunger and Poverty: The Chicago Initiative on Global Agricultural Development 

On February 25, 2009, a group of bipartisan foreign policy and development leaders convened by The Chicago Council on Global Affairs called for a renewed U.S. commitment to alleviating global poverty through agricultural development in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, the two regions with more than 700 million of the world's poorest people, most of them small farmers.The group's report, Renewing American Leadership in the Fight Against Hunger and Poverty: The Chicago Initiative on Global Agricultural Development, includes five recommendations and more than 20 specific suggestions for how the United States, through increased agricultural development assistance and partnerships at home and abroad, could help achieve the Millennium Development Goals and restore the United States as a force for positive change in the world.

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ENOUGH: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty

"How, in a world of plenty, can people be left to starve? We think 'It's just the way of the world.' But if it is the way of the world, we must overthrow the world. Enough is enough." – Bono

For more than forty years, humankind has had the knowledge, tools, and resources to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet at the start of the twenty-first century, 25,000 people a day – and nearly six million children a year -- die of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases. Malnutrition kills more Africans than AIDS and malaria combined. Launched in June 2009, Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman, award-winning writers on Africa, development, and agriculture, explain through vivid human stories how the agricultural revolutions that transformed Asia and South America stopped short in Africa.

Enough Website

Modernizing America's Farm and Food Policy: Vision for a New Direction

On September 27, 2006, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs released "Modernizing America's Farm and Food Policy: Vision for a New Direction," a report of task force findings and recommendations calling on Congress to end trade-distorting subsidies, redefine the farm safety net, transform the food stamp program, and reinvest in U.S. agriculture's future. Task Force members concluded that now, more than ever, agriculture policy must be determined by the need to invest in the future of U.S. agriculture and the real needs of rural America, the national economy, public health, and the environment.





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Full Report (PDF)
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