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Executive Summary
The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, a new “co-operation framework” launched at the 2012 G8 Summit in the US and boosted at the 2013 Summit in the UK, now covers 10 African countries and brings well over 100 companies to the table as donors, in addition to the G8 governments and the European Union. This initiative “aims to accelerate responsible investment in African agriculture and lift 50 million people out of poverty by 2022” through a partnership that “includes specific commitments from African leaders to refine policies in order to improve investment opportunities and drive their country-led plans on food security; Private sector companies, who have collectively committed more than $3 billion to increase investments; Donor partners, who will support Africa’s potential for rapid and sustained agricultural growth, and ensure accountability for the New Alliance”. It has been heavily criticized by civil society for promoting the interests of the corporations rather than those of African small-scale food producers and citizens. This paper sheds light on where the New Alliance comes from, the faulty rhetoric on which it bases its claims to fight food insecurity, and the counter movements underway in Africa and in the Committee on World Food Security.