Food disruptions from the pandemic, war show the need for strong local supply chains. Yet the US and others won’t learn.


Alex Park is a journalist and researcher based in California.
Food disruptions from the pandemic, war show the need for strong local supply chains. Yet the US and others won’t learn.

The new US foreign assistance strategy for nutrition makes little room for vulnerable smallholder farmers.
![A woman and two of her children farm their crops in Nakasongola, Uganda [Corbis via Getty Images]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/GettyImages-527437018.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Mass dispossession of smallholder farmers is not a side effect of the ‘African Green Revolution’. It is the whole point.
![A farmer carries pineapples to be planted at the Greenfields pineapple farm in Ekumfi on June 29, 2018 [File: AFP/Cristina Aldehuela]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/000_16W4XB.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)