Global Agriculture and the American Farmer: Opportunities for U.S. Leadership

The United States is one of the world's largest producers and exporters of a range of agricultural commodities, and the largest provider of foreign assistance, so US policies have big effects on global food security and other global public goods linked to agriculture. But those effects are not always positive, as US support for farmers often comes in forms that distort global markets and ignore negative spillovers for the rest of the world.

In Global Agriculture and the American Farmer, Kimb...