Since January 2000, Food Security III Project staff have provided technical support to a new initiative, the Partnership to Cut Hunger in Africa, which is a bipartisan coalition of U.S. and African organizations. It is co-chaired by Michigan State University President M. Peter McPherson, Mali President Alpha Oumar Konaré, Senator Robert Dole, and Lee Hamilton. President Konaré has proposed national consultations and a summit of the Heads of State of Mali, Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda and Mozambique during 2001 to commit to poverty and hunger reduction in Africa. The Partnership's strategic framework will be delivered to U.S. government leaders by the spring of 2001.

Background:

• The official site of this initiative.
• The Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa 2001 World Conference
  Video Summary, 26 minutes.
• MSU Faculty and Student Contributions to the Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa:
  Reflections on Trying to Change Development Policy

Key summary documents explaining Partnership activities:

• "Now Is The Time: A Plan to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa." May, 2002
  • Executive Summary (Note: 1364 KB PDF file)
  • Full Document (Note: 347 KB PDF file)
• Final Conference Proclamation (June 25-27, 2001)
  • English Version
  • French Version
  • Portuguese Version
• Partnership Brochure, June 1, 2001 edition. (Note, these Brochures were created to print double sided, in landscape, on U.S. Legal size paper, and then they could be folded into a 4-fold Brochure. The HTML Versions give the basic text. The PDF versions give the basic formatting, and can be printed single sided on your default paper size by going to the File/Print menu in Adobe and selecting "Print To Fit".)
  • English Version
  • French Version
  • Portuguese Version
• "The Critical Need For A New U.S. Effort To Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa." Partnership Summary Briefing Paper-February 12, 2001.
  • English Version for US Consultations
  • English Version for African Consultations
  • French Version for African Consultations
  • Portuguese Version for African Consultations
• "A Strategy For Cutting Hunger in Africa." Commissioned paper by Jerome M. Wolgin.
  • English Version
  • French Version
  • Portuguese Version

Key background documents for Partnership activities:

• Summary of David A. Atwood Paper on "Cutting Hunger and Poverty in Half: Interest Groups and A Renewed U.S. Commitment In The Post Cold-War World."
• Full version of David A. Atwood paper: http://www.afr-sd.org/publications/cuthunger.pdf
• "Strategic Pathways to Cutting Hunger in Africa" by John Staatz. 2000.
• "African Perspectives on Progress and Challenges in Transforming Agriculture To Help Cut Hunger and Poverty" By Julie Howard, Thomas Jayne and Michael Weber, summarizing key findings from the two most recent transformation workshops and draws on (1) Staatz, John M. and Moussa Batchily Ba. 1996. Fostering Agricultural and Food System Transformation in Africa. Policy Synthesis Number 13. East Lansing: Michigan State University; and (2) Argwings-Kodhek, Gem, T.S. Jayne, and Isaac Minde. 1999. African Perspectives on Progress and Challenges in Agricultural Transformation. Policy Synthesis Number 47. East Lansing: Michigan State University.
• Poverty Reduction, Globalization and HIV/AIDS Synthesis of the USAID, Bureau for Africa Workshop for Agriculture, Environment, Private Sector and Food for Peace Officers Nairobi, Kenya, November 12-17, 2000
• Sécurité alimentaire en Afrique Sub-saharienne: Quelle Stratégie de Réalisation? Par Niama Nango Dembélé. Février 2001.
• African Development Bank/African Development Fund. Agriculture and Rural Development Sector Bank Group Policy. January 2000
• SPAAR/FARA Vision of African Agricultural Research and Development, SPAAR Secretariat. April 2000