Africa Hungry for Change, not more Green Revolution
As I showed in my book, Eating Tomorrow, widespread hunger is a policy choice, not an inevitability. As I explain in the article below, Africa’s annual Green Revolution Forum starts next week in Senegal, where leaders have cut hunger in half. Meanwhile, United Nations hunger estimates show that countries that followed the Green Revolution’s one-size-fits-all policies have seen hunger soar. They should learn from Senegal and Brazil, as African civil society leaders are urging them to do, by supporting agroecology.
I’m pleased to report that Eating Tomorrow will soon be coming out in Spanish, one of the reasons for my relatively long silence. Mexican publisher Fondo de Cultura Econömica should have it out by the end of the year, and they have done a great job with the translation. It will have a new prologue which I’ll share when the time is right.