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To fight poverty, support small farmers

Last year the World Bank reported that at least 1 in 5 Africans goes to bed hungry and an estimated 140 million people in Africa face acute food insecurity. That is 20% of the African population who require urgent and critical interventions to transform their livelihoods. These numbers are staggering, and are a motivating force for my activism.

I’m often asked why I am so interested in the causes I work on. “You’re an actor, why

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