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 GeoStrategy Initiative, housed within the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, leverages strategy development and long-range foresight to serve as the preeminent thought-leader and convener for policy-relevant analysis and solutions to understand a complex and unpredictable world. Through its work, the initiative strives to revitalize, adapt, and defend a rules-based international system in order to foster peace, prosperity, and freedom for decades to come.
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