date:Aug 11, 2016
A bipartisan Global Food Security Act was recently passed by the American Congress. The US$7 billion dollar project is aimed at bolstering efforts to end hunger, malnutrition and poverty across the globe. However, according to Stacy Ndlovu, managing editor of Young Voices,
the Act will most certainly not improve global food security, especially in Africa, because it fails to address what, in her opinion, is a fundamental cause of food insecurity in the developing world: US agricultural subsidie