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Roger Thurow

Title Senior Fellow for Global Agriculture and Food Policy
Organization The Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Roger Thurow is Senior Fellow for Global Agriculture and Food Policy at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Prior to joining The Chicago Council, he spent three decades as a journalist with The Wall Street Journal.

Posts By Roger Thurow

Feeding Isaac: How A Mother's Love And Her (Orange) Sweet Potato Harvest May Have Saved a Community

None of the doctors knew what was wrong. Isaac was so thin, so weak, his mother was terrified that he would die.

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ONE's New Report: A Growing Opportunity

In a report launched today – a valuable yardstick called, A Growing Opportunity: Measuring Investments in African Agriculture – ONE reviews the past decade and finds some notable successes in terms of mustering money and political commitment, and the impact of agricultural development.

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A Thanksgiving Tale: The Hungercloth

Hunger at home and abroad are of the same cloth. That millions of households here are deemed “food insecure” – unable, at some point in the year, to afford the next meal – is equally absurd, obscene and shameful.

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The Last Hunger Season

Zipporah Biketi didn’t attend the G8 meeting of the rich and powerful nations last weekend at Camp David. But still she was at the center of it.

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A Message to the U.S. Government on Ending Hunger

Good work, now keep going. That is the message to the U.S. government—both the administration and Congress—from the 2012 Progress Report on American Leadership in Global Agricultural Development released today.

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