Global Food for Thought

Read at :The Chicago Council on Global Affairs

In February 2009, a group of interested Americans, convened by The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, developed a set of science-based recommendations that confront the challenge of global poverty through improving the agricultural productivity and incomes of those on small farms in Africa and South Asia, where the majority of the global poor reside.

An output of the Global Agricultural Development Initiative is Global Food for Thought – a weekly news brief that follows media, research, and policy developments on issues surrounding agricultural development. Briefs provide summaries of and links to articles, reports, events, and publications on issues such as agriculture, climate change, water, foreign assistance, gender, trade, and agribusiness. Global Food for Thought is available for free every Friday. To receive this publication weekly, please sign up here. For your convenience, I have pasted below this week’s edition.

I thought it would be useful if I included links to the executive summary of the Initiative’s final report, Renewing American Leadership in the Fight Against Global Hunger and Poverty: The Chicago Initiative on Global Agricultural Development. Should you have time to review the report, any thoughts and comments would be very appreciated.

Learn more at: http://www.thechicagocouncil.org/globalagdevelopment/

With best regards,
Hendrik Woods