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Food and the Transformation of Africa
Food and the Transformation of Africa Getting Smallholders Connected By Kofi Annan, Chair, Kofi Annan Foundation; Seventh Secretary General, United Nations, and... Read More
The Case for Citizen Leadership
This piece was published in January 2016 in newspapers across the world. In it Kofi Annan analyses the world’s major fault-line and... Read More
Rethinking Sanctions
SINGAPORE – Today, the United Nations Security Council has more sanctions regimes in place than at any time in its history. During... Read More
2016: A Year for Passionate Intensity and Positive Change
The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity” The Irish poet William Butler Yeats wrote these words... Read More
The Grassroots of Climate Change
PARIS – The climate-change agreement reached here on December 12 was a rich victory for diplomacy. Both the agreement itself and the... Read More
Are Elections giving Democracy a Bad Name?
In association with the Royal Commonwealth Society, a report covering the issues, best practices, ideas and ambitions which affect the Commonwealth. Kofi... Read More
The Case For True Leadership on Climate Change
A few months ago, I was greatly blessed by the birth of a third grandchild. His arrival caused me to reflect on... Read More
Food and the Transformation of Africa
In “Food and the Transformation of Africa”, Kofi Annan and Sam Dryden argue that it is high time to think about agriculture... Read More
Reflections on the UN at 70
Kofi Annan reflects upon the accomplishments of the United Nations on the occasion of its 70th anniversary. Seventy years ago, world... Read More
Nine steps to food security
Kofi Annan reflects upon the so-called “African Green Revolution” and the nine necessary steps to achieve food security in the continent. ... Read More
