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The effort is still in its infancy, with a relatively tiny budget of $100 million. But at a time when climate shocks and rising costs are aggravating food insecurity and raising the risks of political instability, the stakes are high.
The U.S. global food security envoy is pushing to bring back traditional African crops that American policies helped to sideline.
Instead of urging developing countries to grow only huge amounts of corn and other staple grains, as American policy has done for decades in Africa, Cary Fowler is promoting a return to the great variety of traditional crops that people used to grow more of, such as cowpeas, cassava, and a range of millets.
The ETC group, an international NGO based in Canada, claims it monitors the "impact of emerging technologies" that impact biodiversity, agriculture and
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