Follow the Food; Dutch Agribusiness and local Food security in Ethiopia, Ghana and Kenya

The challenge of doubling global food supplies to feed a projected 9 billion people by 2050 has triggered a strong influx of foreign investments in African agribusiness. However, it is unclear how these investments in global food supply affect food security at the local level in recipient countries. This project assesses these effects by using a value chain approach to compare investments in different business models engaged in the production of a variety of food crops along the local ? export market continuum. It will generate in-depth and comparative knowledge on the global-local nexus of different foreign-induced business models, their level of inclusiveness and how and to what extent they can contribute to local food security. We do this by comparing a variety of Dutch investment cases in Ethiopia, Kenya and Ghana.