The Chicago Council’s recent report, Grow Markets, Fight Hunger: a Food Security Framework for US-Africa Trade Relations, is currently featured on Republic 3.0 and Ideas Lab.
In these pieces, Andrea Durkin, the report’s author, writes:
Eighty percent of Africans work in the food and agriculture sector — yet one in every four people in Africa suffers chronic hunger, and 227 million people in Africa are considered undernourished. While rates of agricultural productivity in Africa are growing, they’re still far too low to meet projected demand in 2030. If current trends continue, hunger in Africa will remain a persistent threat to the continent’s economic development and stability — with dire global consequences.
But as intractable as this problem seems to be, the United States has at its disposal a vital — but underutilized — lever to alleviate hunger in Africa while at the same time promoting its growth: trade policy.
Visit Republic 3.0 or Ideas Lab to continue reading and to learn more about the findings and recommendations set forth in Grow Markets, Fight Hunger.
Chicago Council’s Grow Markets, Fight Hunger Report Featured
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Made in ________: Distant Food Demands Lead to Local Water Issues
Next Generation Delegate Landon Marston discusses the linkages between water, agriculture, and food security.
Guest Commentary – Meet the Man Who Changed the Way the United States Fights Poverty Abroad
Former USAID Administrator and Council Senior Advisor Raj Shah sat down with Grist's Nathanael Johnson to discuss agricultural development and US foreign aid.
Big Ideas and Emerging Innovations
Highlighting approaches, technologies, and ideas that have the potential to radically advance global food security.
Reevaluating the Agricultural Development Agenda
Next Generation Delegate Sarah Stefanos discusses the need to reorganize the financing of global agricultural development.
Big Ideas and Emerging Innovations
Highlighting approaches, technologies, and ideas that have the potential to radically advance global food security.Guest Commentary – Growing Food for Growing Cities
Sara Gustafson of IFPRI details the challenges posed to food security by urbanization, as evidenced in the Council's latest report.