Roger Thurow is senior fellow on global agriculture and food policy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He is the author of The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change (PublicAffairs).
The challenges of African agriculture
The developed world's negligence has produced one of Africa's cruelest ironies: its farmers are its hungriest people.
The scourge of world hunger
I should have seen my road to Damascus moment approaching. I’d been warned.
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