Public-private partnerships can help improve nutrition worldwide

InterAction President and CEO Sam Worthington, as part of a series organized by the Chicago Council On Global Affairs' Global Agriculture Development Initiative and InterAction to highlight the importance of public-private partnerships in agricultural development, writes in the Chicago Council's "Global Food for Thought" blog that recent figures showing one in eight people in the world is undernourished is "a call to collective action." He continues, "The private and public sectors have enormous potential to work together and leverage each other's added value to spur this kind of economic development in a way that will, ultimately, decrease hunger and improve nutrition." Worthington concludes, "Smart public-private partnerships that draw on the added value of government, business and civil society will ensure that we can reduce hunger and improve nutrition in sustainable, people-centered ways that ultimately improve lives and save them" (10/31).