Special Edition of the Global Food for Thought News Brief: Global Food Security Symposium 2015
Following the Global Food Security Symposium on April 16, this week's Global Food for Thought news brief features key outcomes and commentary from the event. View this week's edition.
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The Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ new report, Growing Food for Growing Cities: Transforming Food Systems in an Urbanizing World, was released today at the Global Food Security Symposium 2016.
As part of the "Growing Food for Growing Cities" series, Tony O. Elumelu discusses ways in which to increase the competitiveness of Africa's agricultural entrepreneurs.
As part of the "Growing Food for Growing Cities" series, Joe Stone of Cargill describes how ensuring smallholder farmers have strong, sustainable supply chains is critical to their resilience and our collective success.
As part of the "Growing Food for Growing Cities" series, David Hong of One Acre Fund discusses the importance of helping smallholder farmers increase production and gain access to domestic markets.
The final post in our "Growing Food for Growing Cities" series discusses the need to support off-farm industry alongside agricultural development to alleviate poverty.
David Auerbach of Sanergy, speaker at the upcoming Global Food Security Symposium 2016, details innovative solutions to improve sanitation alongside food security in Kenya.
