Op-Ed: Action to End Hunger Demands Scaling Large Investments
Foodtank published an editorial by the coordinators of the Zero Hunger Private Sector Pledge, Carin Smaller (Shamba Centre for Food & Climate) and Lawrence Haddad (GAIN) with three key insights that have emerged from the Zero Hunger Private Sector Pledge’s second Accountability report.
First, companies are investing in the resilience of smallholder farmers, included programs to improve yields, advance regenerative agriculture, and reduce post-harvest losses. Second, companies are investing in their local communities with a growing number of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with headquarters in Africa and Asia joining the Pledge. Finally, more effort is needed in Africa which hosts 13 of the 15 high-priority countries identified by the Ceres2030 project. However, only 3% of projects were deployed in high-priority countries