Failing Africa’s farmers: New report shows Africa’s Green Revolution is “failing on its own terms”

My blog from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy summarizes the results of the report, “False Promises: The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa,” based on my research paper, “Failing Africa’s Farmers: An Impact Assessment of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa.” The results: “We found no evidence that productivity, incomes or food security were increasing significantly for smallholder households.”

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True Cost Accounting in Post-Covid Food Policy

I was part of an engaging three-person Zoom panel on all that is undervalued in food and agriculture markets, with Paula Daniels of Good Food Purchasing and Barbara Gemmill-Herren of Prescott College. I cautioned us all to avoid commodifying everything by trying to put prices (costs) on things that are truly priceless, like agricultural biodiversity. You can watch it here, with the panel discussion starting around 16:00 (I come in around 22:00). May 22, 2020

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Big Ag Is Sabotaging Progress on Climate Change

(Originally published on Wired)

Climate experts have sounded yet another dire alarm, this time aimed straight at our stomachs. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report, on “Climate Change and Land,” warns that meeting the challenges of our climate crisis requires urgent changes in our food systems.

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