Global Development
Reports
2021
Oct
15
Past Event
China’s youth: Increasing diversity amid persistent inequality
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Online Only
2021
Sep
22
Past Event
To rule the waves: How control of the world’s oceans shapes the fate of the superpowers
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Online Only
2021
Sep
20
Past Event
Green trade under the AfCFTA: The role of AU-EU partnership
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Online only
John McArthur
Director - Center for Sustainable Development
Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development
Africa is the world's breadbasket—or should be. It has vast arable land, grows a wide variety of crops and has vast irrigation potential with seven major rivers. Yet, Africa imported $43 billion worth of food items in 2019. Digital technologies ... are eliminating the traditional inefficiencies of smallholder food production and helping to close the yield gap.
You’re taking the DFC down a slippery slope of being a national security agency instead of a development agency.
