Food security: Strategic alignment in the Americas 

Food security is foundational to national, regional, hemispheric, and global security.

The Western Hemisphere is a global food powerhouse. With advanced agricultural technologies, high production capacity, and major staple crop producers and exporters such as the United States, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and Argentina, the region plays a vital role in global food supply.

When countries and regions are food secure, they are far more likely to be productive, stable, and prosperous. Maintaining food security should be treated as a strategic imperative across the Americas.

Food Security: Strategic Alignment in the Americas, a Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security project, explores how countries across the Americas should collaborate to build resilient and sustainable agri-food value chains and architectures for a food-secure future. The project considers supply chains, trade, geopolitics, economic competition, climate impacts, and agricultural technology innovation.

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The Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security works to develop sustainable, nonpartisan strategies to address the most important security challenges facing the United States and the world.

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