Event Summary
The Global Agricultural Development Project's final report provides an objective assessment of the risks posed by rural poverty and food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. It endorses a call to action for the United States government to work with governments and other institutions in those regions to increase agricultural productivity, market access, and incomes for smallholder farmers. The report was developed and endorsed by a bipartisan group of national leaders with experience and expertise on food and agriculture, development, foreign policy, and international organizations.
Event Materials
Report: American Leadership in the Fight Against Global Hunger and Poverty: The Chicago Initiative on Global Agricultural [pdf, 5.3 MB, 230 pp.]
Issued by an Independent Leaders Group on Global Agricultural Development
Global Agricultural Development Independent Leaders Group: Report Signatories
Catherine A. Bertini (cochair), former executive director, UN World Food Programme
Dan Glickman (cochair), former secretary of Agriculture, US Department of Agriculture
Carol Bellamy, former executive director, United Nations Children's Fund
Doug Bereuter, president and CEO, Asia Foundation
Eva M. Clayton, former assistant director general, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
Tony P. Hall, former ambassador, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations; former US representative, Ohio
M. Peter McPherson, president, National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges; former administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development
Phyllis E. Oakley, former assistant secretary of state, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, US Department of State
Thomas R. Pickering¸ former under secretary of state, Political Affairs, US Department of State
Per Pinstrup-Andersen, former director general, International Food Policy Research Institute
Pedro A. Sanchez, director of Tropical Agriculture, Earth Institute at Columbia University
Robert L. Thompson, former director of Rural Development, World Bank Group; former assistant secretary for Economics, US Department of Agriculture
Richard S. Williamson, US special envoy to Sudan, US Department of State; former assistant secretary of state, International Organizations, US Department of State