Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you can feed him for a lifetime. But create markets for those fish, and he'll have sustainable income for his entire family.
After recently spending five weeks traveling across Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania visiting men and women farmers, I saw firsthand the truth of this old saying — or at least, the modernized version.
Despite substantial improvements in recent decades, about 2.37 billion people worldwide face moderate or severe food insecurity. That number increased by 320 million just since the start of the pandemic.
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