<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/_dev-testing/2026-08-21/magazine/fall-2011/investing-food-security-and-jobs-africa.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Investing in Food Security — and Jobs — for Africa</title><excerpt>Ten years ago, Jeff Dykstra’s wife and two of his friends told him the same thing on the same day: Quit your job and figure out what you want to do with your life. “So I stepped back and thought about what motivated me,” Jeff says. “I’d been living too long with inward dissonance, feeling my work didn’t fit my interests.”</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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